Finnish houses are deservedly popular with developers. Modern wood processing technology, careful control at all stages of building a house increases their service life up to 70 years. The layout of Finnish houses involves the manufacture of a frame: wall structures, partitions and interfloor ceilings, windows, doors, stairs. The main advantage of these buildings is the ecological purity of the wood from which they are made.
Features of the layout of Finnish houses
Buildings built using Finnish technology have good thermal and sound insulation.
The layout of Finnish houses is the best option for expanding living space and improving its appearance. Wooden buildings have always been attractive, cozy and functional.
Most often, Finnish houses are built with one floor, they use large windows that let a lot ofsunlight into the room and make it visually more spacious. Traditionally, such houses have a covered terrace where the whole family can relax in any weather.
You can often find the layout of a Finnish one-story house with a sauna. A small room is provided for the steam room, sometimes it is located in a separate outbuilding.
Finns' houses are usually small, but the interior layout is very rational. The height of the rooms is no more than 2.5 meters, this allows them to warm up faster. The living room is combined with the kitchen, on the ground floor there are usually rooms that serve as an office. On the second floor there is usually a dressing room, a bedroom, a children's room, a bathroom, a toilet.
Frame structures
Popular and proven technology. The layout of Finnish frame houses is the most economical option in construction. This does not affect the quality of Finnish houses at all. Competent thermal insulation and waterproofing allows you to create comfortable and durable buildings.
The frame is most often made at the factory and delivered to customers in the form of finished blocks. Self-assembly of the frame is fraught with some difficulties, because this requires the use of special construction equipment. Beams must be connected on a flat horizontal surface, and then using a winch, lift the finished wall and connect it to the finished strapping.
Such houses are sheathed mainly with sandwich panels that have a good layer of insulation. Blanks for the construction of Finnish houses, like all products fromwood, treated with an antiseptic from decay and flame retardants to increase fire resistance.
Houses from glued beams
Over time, Finnish building technology has improved, new techniques have appeared. Laminated timber has become a modern material in the projects of Finnish houses. The raw materials for it are high-quality coniferous trees. Wood is selected without knots and cracks, and then it is dried to 10% moisture content.
Blanks are ground on special machines and then glued together under a powerful press. The latter process gives the wood special strength, protects it from deformation, protects the material from mold and fungus. Strengthening the strength of houses made of glued beams is also facilitated by a special way of arranging the elements during gluing. They are laid perpendicular to the fibers of the previous workpiece.
Finnish houses with glued laminated timber layouts are more expensive than frame buildings due to the cost of processing the material, but all costs pay off with durability and comfortable living conditions.
Single-storey log houses
Difficult transportation and difficult laying of logs implies a rather high cost of building such houses. And the choice of material itself is difficult, because it is very difficult to find logs of the same diameter along the entire length. Therefore, a large layer is removed from the wood, leaving only the core. This process is called rounding, as a result of which all logs become the samediameter.
Complicates the construction process and the natural shrinkage of logs, so they insert windows, doors and conduct all communications in such houses already after 1.5 years after the construction of the building.
Interior design
The planning of Finnish houses has the spirit of the traditions of the peoples of Scandinavia. The interior decoration is natural and natural in color, here you will not find shades that irritate the eyes. Pale blue, light gray shades are used. Often there is a lining under natural wood.
The hearth or fireplace is considered the main accent of the Scandinavian interior. It can decorate not only the living room, but also the kitchen or office. Well-chosen lighting adds coziness to the room. Since the Finns for the most part do not have enough daylight, the interior always has a massive chandelier and several point sources: floor lamps, sconces, built-in lamps.
Do-it-yourself crafts play an important role in the Scandinavian interior, but they all blend harmoniously with the decoration of the rooms. There should not be an overabundance of accessories, a pile of objects. Decor only from natural materials, plastic and synthetics are not used.
