“We’ve truly been living here since last summer – we spent the whole summer here with the kids in the old house. Right now, we’re still moving back and forth to the city, as the new house wasn’t quite ready for winter living yet,” Anne says.
Where the old house once stood, a new one is now nearing completion. Keit recalls that the original plan was to renovate the old building – to update it as much as possible and add a new extension. However, a closer inspection revealed that the logs had little future beyond firewood.
“We even found the ‘cornerstone’ of the house – it was inside the old foundation, right in the middle of the building. They say there’s always a gold coin beneath it, but we haven’t found one to this day. The stone did have the initials J and T, along with the year 1932. That sparked an interest in exploring the history of the farm. So far, we’ve learned that the very first owner was named Mart.”
Anne adds that she cannot praise the builders enough – even the locals reportedly watched the construction process like a film or a small miracle. It turns out it’s possible to build this fast.
