In the summer and autumn of 2013, the decision matured for us to find a house in the countryside where we would move from Espoo. We were already enthusiastic about permaculture then and Marja completed a PDC course (2 weeks Permaculture Design Course) in Koli (eastern parti of Finland) in the summer of 2013. We felt that we in the city could not develop a sustainable lifestyle that suited us. 

At first we didn’t really know what we were looking for and especially what the other was looking for. We decided right from the start that we had to go see at least a dozen places before we seriously consider buying anything.

This is the Design of our House (including other buildings) including the perspective of the Main System Energy (see The Permaculture Pathway). The Design Framework is VOBREDIMET (Vision, Observation, Boundaries, Resources, Evaluation, Design, Implementation, Maintenance, (Re)Evaluation, and Tweaking).

Designing a house and buildings is very much about Needs so….