Ever since I built my new sauna, I ended up sitting on a foldable chair in the dressing room while we were cooling down with my wife. You can guess who was using the nice bench in there… As the dressing room is very small, there is no place for another bench. The only solution…
Wooden sauna curtain
I couldn’t find a good curtain for my sauna, so I decided to build one. Traditionally the curtains are made by crocheting cotton thread, but I decided to do something different. The inspiration came from bead curtains which were popular in the 60’s and 70’s. I needed to find wooden beads without any treatment to…
Traditional Finnish wood-burning sauna
I’m originally from Finland, the promised land of sauna, but I’ve been living abroad for nearly 20 years. I’ve missed the tradition immensely, so I decided to build a proper sauna on my backyard. The project took about 6 months to plan and 2 months to build. The overall budget is unknown to me as…
Flight controller table
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. When our first kid was born, we needed to reallocate the office we had in our appartment to become the kids room. This also meant that I needed to make sure that I can still sit comfortably while I work on…
Tortoise Terrarium
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. I had a companion from the age of seven until far into my adult life; a horsefield tortoise called Ramses. I wanted to make a new terrarium for him which is not the usual square shape.
Mercedes SLK Carputer
This is a project from before the time I started to document my builds. When you see through the pictures, remember that most of these features were unheard of at the time, even though today these are common in modern cars! This was a very long project which required a lot of planning. At the…