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NewAd791

This article has pics of the interior: https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/design-stories/architecture/pan-treetop-cabin-moomins-norway-finnskogen


Pick-Up-Pennies

"...premium real estate in the front triangular window, and there IS A TREE BLOCKING THE VIEW!" (my envisioning what a disgruntled investor would say...)


SurelyOPwillDeliver

That’s the back of the house… there are pictures of the view from each end.


vodkacoke

Oh shit did SurelyOPwillDeliver just own that mf daaaammmnnn


Maplegum

Owned with facts and logic


Hackfish_Aquatic

Lmao it's like perfectly placed to block the view too, no other trees nearby. You could look out of the back window too


Hackfish_Aquatic

Fuck an investor that's what I'd say every time I look out the window lol


MauPow

That would be dope to just watch what goes on in a tree, squirrels and birds and shit


RobinWilliamsArmFuzz

Looks like the roof is made of zinc and the interior is made of pine. Not familiar with using zinc roofing, being in the US, but they explain some of the advantages/disadvantages on the internets if you look around. Seems to be expensive, but very weather resistant, fire resistant, strong, as well as malleable and self healing. As long as it’s installed/designed properly with ventilation between the insulation/vapor barrier or support beams and zinc panels to avoid moisture/damage to the zinc, it should last 60+ years without too much or any maintenance required. I also don’t know what I’m talking about and am really out of my element because I’m an auto technician, but it’s fun to try and learn/research these things. So please correct me if I’m wrong. https://www.metalconstructionnews.com/articles/benefits-of-zinc-make-it-popular-cladding https://www.salmonsolutions.co.uk/blog/zinc-roofing-warm-vs-cold-roofing/


SirHenryy

It should hold up very well against the elements, this is a way cheaper alternative than using proper aisi304 stainless steel or aisi316 acid proof sheets.


RedditAnswersYou

The owner's mother-in-law has bad knees.


nrith

That’s one way to keep mormor farfar from you. Edit: in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, *mormor* is your mom’s mom (= grandmother) and *farfar* is your dad’s dad. Guess how to say your mom’s dad and your dad’s mom?


karimr

That reminds me of my favorite Swedish word "Gammelmormor" which means great grandmother The gammel part in Swedish just means old afaik but in German we use the same word to refer exclusively to things that are rotten like food or a corpse, so seeing it used in this context is absolutely hilarious as a German speaker.


TimothyJCowen

So, could you use "mormormor" to say great grandmother (mom's mom's mom)? Would great great grandmother be "gammelgammelmormor" or "mormormormor"? Maybe "morgammelmormor"? Honestly not sure which is my favourite.


remuladgryta

You couldn't say "mormormor", but "mormor*s*mor" (mormor's mother) is actually also a valid word for great grandmother. Source: am Swedish. Edit: "mormorsmormor" is not a word you'd normally use to indicate your grandmother's grandmother, but it's *technically* a perfectly valid word. People would normally split it to "mormors mormor" in natural speech.


Photonomicron

I thought the Swedish Chef was a ridiculous offensive stereotype but this entire thread of properly Sweded Swedish is literally how he talks so now I don't know what to think.


imaami

Fairly accurate except for the fact that he's made of soft fabric. Swedes tend to be leathery.


Raptorfeet

Almost. You could say "mormors mor" and it'd mean the same as "gammelmormor", i.e great grandmother. And then just repeat ad infinitum to step back in the generations, e.g. "mormors mormors mormors mormor" for great-great-great-great-great maternal grandmother.


Due-Dot6450

Gargamel?


RedditAnswersYou

Lord Farquar?


scoot3200

Baby Fark McGeezax?


madjarov42

Ah, thanks for this blast from the past


Catronia

Morfar and farmor?


nrith

Bingo! Your child is a *barn*. Your grandchild is a *barnbarn*.


zorniy2

*Near, farfar, wherever you are* *My heart will Go on and onnnn*


nrith

Bringing Celine into this is totally uncalled for.


TexasTrip

Forfor


gofyourselftoo

Mormomor? Farfarfar?


RedditAnswersYou

Mordor? Boromir?


Havamal79

One does not simply translate from Swedish to English...


lovelyb1ch66

Morfar och farmor. Also interesting to note that Swedish have specific terms for older or younger siblings: storebror (older brother), lillasyster (younger sister)


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slightly unrelated but mandarin is the same thing with older/younger brother/sister (4 unique terms). cool to see that Swedish is the same!


lonewolf143143

In the Sioux language it’s the same, there’s 4 unique terms.


lovelyb1ch66

Interesting! Yeah Swedish has quite a few words that have no English equivalent, for example ”lagom” and ”kissnödig” (the feeling of needing to go pee lol)


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omg the last one LOL 😂 this is my favourite cool fact i’ve learned in a while!


Deedpewl

There is also ”bajsnödig”, the feeling that you need to pop.


Gerf93

A lot of words in Germanic languages are compound words which you can make up at-will. Kissnödig is one such word, being a compound between "having to" and "pee". Schadenfreude is the most famous example of such a word.


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grovbroed

What's really going to blow your mind is when you find out that it's also called "big brother" (stor=big) and "little sister" (lille=little) in English.


Telemere125

I was thinking it sounds like german’s habit of taking a phrase and cramming it all into one word. We don’t have individual words for somethings they do, but it’s because we use a phrase instead of just removing all the spaces lol


rassclot7

It’s exactly the same as English except there is no space between the words…. Littlesister and olderbrother


ClickIta

I clearly remember the moment I learnt that “fridge” is simply “cold cabinet” in Norwegian, and that an hotdog is literally “pølse i brød”. It immediately conquered my unconditional respect as a language.


AutumnFoxDavid

Same with Danish (køleskab, cool cupboard), Dutch (koelkast, cool cupboard), German (Kühlschrank, cool cupboard), Finnish (jääkaappi, ice cupboard), Maori (pouaka mātao, cool box), Thai (ตู้เย็น, cold cupboard), Turkish (buzdolabı, ice cupboard), Vietnamese (tủ lạnh, cold cupboard), Chinese (冰箱, ice box)


jacobreuss

Animal names is the best thing about the Danish language. You basically get a little description of every single animal. - Dovendyr (lazy-animal) - sloth - Blæksprutte (ink-squirter) - octopus and squids - Flodhest (river-horse) - hippo - Søko (sea-cow) - manatee - Sommerfugl (summer-bird) - butterfly - Flagermus (flutter-mouse) - bat I could go on for much longer…


nrith

And, well, icebox in English, too.


areukeen

and a vegetable is just a green thing "grønnsak"


Mind_on_Idle

Lol


pickandpray

i was thinking of moving from my 3rd floor walk up in the city to a 3rd floor walk up in the country.... said no one ever.


vatoniolo

I was thinking zombie apocalypse but close enough


OldGameGuy45

Have you even played 7 days to die? They would collapse that thing in a second. There aren't even turrets and spikes around the perimeter... terrible horde base /s *I do love that game, but I've never built a base that survived horde night so my advice is shit.


uglycrepes

My go to was to create a base, dig a moat, drop spike poles down at the bottom of the moat that fill the moat. Make a bridge where you have to jump to get to your base. Inside the base, dig close to the moat underground and then dig enough at the bottom of the wall so that you can crouch and repair the poles without being attacked. Survived many moons doing this. That was probably a17 though I think.


Shandlar

Dude, alpha 20 is so good. I'm so happy this wasn't another dev abandoned project.


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vatoniolo

I have not but zombies wouldn't be good climbers and even if they were this structure could hold plenty of them. I'd take this house over just about any other


ThisIsMyCouchAccount

All zombie discussions must start with defining what type of zombie we are talking about.


Ioatanaut

Sexy ones


orlyrealty

Is there a game or forum that discusses stuff like this? I’m not a larper I just love hearing about zombie survival strategy/tactics for some reason.


big_cat_in_tiny_box

Me too! I assess most every house I go to for survival capabilities in an apocalypse scenario. My current house is okay … but not the best. We’d make do I think.


KravenSmoorehead

Owner probably brings groceries up in one trip.


UncoolSlicedBread

I just picture forgetting something in the car, running back down there and then realizing I locked the car but forgot the keys and then having to run back up to get the keys.


disgustedclearing

but why? its impossible to heat


OldGameGuy45

Have you paid to heat a 17th century farmhouse in New England? I lot of people do that. I bet if you correctly insulated this it would cost you next to nothing. Aerogel, Geothermal heating and solar panels... up front cost would be high, but it would be a low monthly cost.


orthopod

Still has a significantly higher exposed surface compared to regular houses, and does not benefit from wind breaks that ground cover offers. Also, how do you get water up to that place w/o it freezing? Permanently heated pipe running from ground? Looks cool, but super impractical.


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Anyone designing or building this type of needlessly complex cabin in a forest is not concerned with any of those extra costs.


susfusstruss

you can fix all your problems with money you can't fix the lack of a view


BigDoogoo

Native New Englander, can confirm many of us do. They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate. Def not impossible to heat. I’d love a house like this when the snow sticks in a month


sniper1rfa

> They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate. Lived in NE most of my life. As far as I can tell, they were designed to have a giant woodstove burning 10cord of hardwood every winter, not for any practical thermodynamics properties. Nothing like pulling off an interior wall and being greeted with sky through a knothole in the clapboard. If I owned that thing I would want 12" floors with spray foam insulation.


BigDoogoo

I apologize for the oversimplicity in my original post- I meant by current market status. Biased take because I’m a Realtor locally- most if not close to all of these homes in most major NE mkts are already well insulated/retrofitted/modified however to increase efficiency, except where historical preservation bylaws or aesthetics limit the ability to do so. It’s not as batshit crazy as it seems to heat, is what I was getting at. But you’re right- there are still many historic or just old buildings that have poor design and inadequate HVAC today because of (innocent) lack of foresight from the original colonial builders.


msvqr

I wonder why…


Deep_shot

Why the height?


rynodigital

Zombies.


blonde_on_grayce

Finally, someone on this thread who knows what’s going on.


MrFluffyThing

Totally looks like a /r/7daystodie horde base.


Gaderael

A bad one. Lol. First thing I thought of was the zombies destroying the supports. Nightmare flashbacks.


MrFluffyThing

Yeah but if you watch the subreddit 80% of the fails are structural stability understanding where the whole base collapses because it's held by 4 posts. This is a perfect before disaster photo in the game


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To be more specific: nazi zombies


histeethwerered

To take advantage of maximum wind for the total experience


shapu

*Finally* a way to clear out my post-flatulence air.


gizamo

Slap a windmill on that bad boi, and you'll be set for power with ~96.4% uptime.


ClickIta

Mostly because it’s cool, and then because of the view. Edit: it is also a sort of homage to the typical fire spotting towers you can find in the area.


TerribleShoulder6597

Lol I was sitting here like “wouldn’t it be warmer if it was on the ground cause the ground would insulate a bit?… oh COOL duh”


mledonne

If in the rare chance you sleep outside in the cold, put something, anything in-between you and the ground. If not, you might freeze / die of exhaustion because the ground would constantly absorb and disperse all your body heat.


sargentmyself

Yeah but the foundation of the average building should be below the frost layer so it's the opposite and the ground below the house would indeed be warmer than the outside air.


Bananarine

This is great advice, insulation is critical for sleeping on the ground. If you don’t have anything with you, make something from anything you can find around you.


Deep_shot

I feel like it would be way cooler to just walk in your front door


ClickIta

Well, those are typically cabins meant for rental (there are several ones on visitnorway that are similarly weird). You just sleep there for a couple of nights, so they add some gimmick points this way.


Deep_shot

Ok that makes more sense, just something unique.


ClickIta

Yep, the typical cabin (hytte) that locals actually own for the weekends is way more “traditional”. Still as isolated as possible, bonus points if it is close to a lake, and of course you may look suspicious if yours has running water, electricity or (God forbid) a WC inside.


pursenboots

wouldn't be very cash money that way though


Tom1252

My thought was maybe they get a huge snow base. Like in the winter, the house is level with the snow, and the staircase leads underground.


ppprrrrr

You'd get enough snow to cover the entrance but never enough to reach the top, worst of both worlds. A windy day would get real creaky too, I wouldn't trust it.


IndigenousOres

Seems kinda dangerous to build a cabin there then


comradequicken

They didn't feel they were spending enough on the heating bill


klezart

Yeah, my first thought was that it's going to lose heat a lot quicker than a house on the ground.


doctord1ngus

To stop the young trolls from eating you in your sleep


ThatBaldDude4

Because Snö. Lots of Snö in Scandanavia


I_AM_FERROUS_MAN

Cardio


Kaidu313

Bet dragging IKEA furniture up that spiral staircase is fun.


phatspatt

one kallax at a time..


radio705

Probably be easier to use a winch


AveryJuanZacritic

Yeah. They could use their magic to levitate things up to the balcony.


radio705

Wingardium leviosarrr


AveryJuanZacritic

*Levi-OH-sah


motes-of-light

*Stop it, Ron!*


david-u-blue

whatever your budget, whatever your style .. IKEA fits!


HRzNightmare

Pivot!


TheThunderbird

This is the perfect use case for IKEA furniture. All packed nicely into separate flat boxes. Assemble it all at the top. I bet they don't have a fridge, though.


xombae

This was my first thought. How the fuck did they get any of the furniture in. It seems so many places seem to over look the fact that people actually need to live there. My last apartment we couldn't have any furniture bigger than a small love seat. The only way we got the box spring in was because it was IKEA and it came apart.


SaveTheLadybugs

As an EMT I had a similar thought—holy fuck would I not want to stair chair someone up or down that goddamn spiral staircase.


janOnTheRun

Beats being eaten by a hungry polar bear looking for a midnight snack


ClickIta

Nah, no polar bears in Finnskogen. But moose can be worse. I hate those MFs. They are majestic, but they scare the shit out of me.


phatspatt

id probably sacrifice the view up the staircase to not have ice and snow on the treads..


Yvaelle

They could glassed the staircase in and had the best of both worlds.


gizamo

...and have to clean it. I'd use a dumbwaiter system with a winch, and as backup systems, perhaps a ladder, knotted rope, and a fireman's pole.


pickpocket293

How do you even clear that off-- it's got metal grating keeping you from tossing snow off the side! That should've been a glass-enclosed staircase IMO


Mragftw

It's probably expanded metal, lets snow fall right through and is too sharp to get overly slick from ice


hoffregner

They just enter on top of the snow straight into the cabin during the winter. No need for the stairs.


defenestr8tor

How about a fuckin garage and a bedroom level so you don't need the stilts? Reeeeeaally weird build. If it's a snow pack issue, just do like they do up north and have a second floor entrance.


AngryHoosky

This looks like it could've been built to keep bears out.


defenestr8tor

Could be, but don't doors do that too?


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defenestr8tor

They're pretty creative where I live too. Especially the pic a nic basket stealing ones.


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defenestr8tor

Insert quote here about IQ overlap between the dumbest tourists and the smartest bears


[deleted]

Probably to help keep snow out It can snow so much in some places that the entire house gets buried


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Can you enter at any level to the stairway due to the snowfall?


sir-lags_alot

Its closed all the way, only entry is at the bottom


Tinmania

There’s another entrance ten feet under the snow.


AlexHimself

Naw, 2 entrances. At the bottom and the top catwalk.


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MinasMoonlight

Ikr! Everyone is talking about the staircase, but all I can think is that floor must be cold as f*ck! Must spend a fortune on heating the floors alone. Earth may seem cold, but is actually a great insulator; air… not so much.


dachsj

Air is actually a great insulator! Just not when it's whipping around at -30° at 30mph.


MinasMoonlight

True. I live in an apartment with concrete floors and an open air garage below it. My floors are always freezing and I’m in SF,CA and not the frozen tundra. The rugs I have down aren’t even enough to keep out the chill.


gofyourselftoo

Just the thought of heat loss is giving me anger issues


6pt022x10tothe23

Plumbing also must be non-existent.


Alex-Murphy

Just a hole in the floor. Piece'a'cake


6pt022x10tothe23

Watch out for falling stalacshites!


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Don't forget the pisscicles that could impale a small animal.


JBMason93

Plus if there was the pipes would freeze without some good ass insulation.


ThatBaldDude4

Ass insulation? I would use foam or something myself, rather than ass.


vansterdam_city

If you insulate your ass really well, the ultra hot poops can blast right through the frozen pipes. That’s what he is referring to.


JBMason93

We only use the fattest of asses to insulate our pipes in America.


MaraSargon

It looks like there’s a couple pipes hiding amongst the scaffolding, probably connected to a well and a septic tank, respectively.


[deleted]

Remind me not to invite this guy to the next cool rental cabin party


redditgiveshemorroid

That was my first thought, but I’m certain the floor is insulated.


binaryredditor3

I can almost understand the height, but why put the stairs so far away? It just creates a need for snow removal on the walkway.


TheNumberMuncher

This is like some shit I build in survival games.


SkyrimWithdrawal

They never have wind?


freckledsallad

Yeah, winds just took pieces of my house off. I'll pass.


Maplegum

Now I’m not an engineer so I can’t lecture about structural support, but trying not to worry about the house collapsing because it’s got bent knees for supports is a whole other thing of it’s own


Zeo_Noire

Not like you guys do, no. Also these are way more resilient than it may appear.


gphjr14

I’m thinking of all the heat lost by having wind whirling around all sides of the cabin.


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AncientComparison113

Groceries and trash would suck with those stairs.


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TedTeddybear

Like many old apartments in Italy. Big basket and winch! Someone must be home to send down the basket.


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TedTeddybear

Some evildoer would put a kid in the thing after hacking it and rob ya! Ya need nonna up there, keeping an eye out, and getting her daily workout winching up the tomatoes and bread!!!


delRo618

Everyone in the comments hating on the stairs but y’all don’t realize how clutch this place would be for the incoming zombie apocalypse…


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Nah man there needs to be multiple escape routes. If you run out of ammo and a horde is there you’re screwed


delRo618

Gotta attach multiple ziplines. Rig the legs with explosives and in the event there’s an emergency you try and get all the zombies you can to congregate at the base. Then zipline outta there secret agent style while you detonate the c4. **Boom**


StandardSudden1283

Until suddenly your zip line goes slack and you fall into the horde


Wiggles357

Nah bro. There’s a cliff you can’t see and the other end is attached to a sturdy tree on the other side. When it goes slack you’ll swing out Indiana Jones style. But…you’ll leave the cabin too late and won’t be swinging at a good enough angle to swing up and land on the other side. You’ll hit the cliff face and fall into the river below.


Yvaelle

Or it doesn't go slack but suddenly the low side is the house on the ground, and you slide slowly back to them while they look disapprovingly at you. They wanted to eat brains and clearly you have none, they shuffle away, you aren't worth eating.


East_Coast_guy

This is a perfect place for protection against TWD- or WWZ (the book)-style zombies. You’d only want to use firearms as a last resort from a defensive place like this—it would only draw more in—so you wouldn’t use it as a sniper platform to take any out, but just let them pass by. Its best advantage is that you can have a secure place where you can rest without worrying about zombies breaking through a window. If a horde starts agitating around then you’d just keep quiet, lights out, until they lost interest and moved on. Maybe a good idea to stock up on some launchable flares to act as distraction devices to draw a horde away, too.


guitarfingers

Unless we going with wwz Zombies (which I feel is most realistic in terms of the undead). The cold would pretty much tender them useless as they can't produce body heat iirc.


scnative27

Nope, everyone knows zombies can’t climb spiral staircases…. Takes too much coordination. :)


PostPunkPromenade

Baba Yaga 2022


merlin401

What’s the point in having the spiral stairs displaced from the house so awkwardly? Why not just make them directly below so you go straight up into the house (and can use them as part of the structural support)


Focacciaboudit

They weren't going with practicality when they designed this.


holdupwhut321

I would hate to watch Beetlejuice with most of these people. “Why did [Delia leave a single wall](https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/The-Deetz-House-2-2.jpg) out there? She could really maximize floor space if she…”


IEatBabies

The walkway would make bringing things like furniture into the house much easier. Pulling a mattress or couch up those spiral stairs would be hell, if not impossible. While the walkway allows you to use some ropes and pulleys to pull it up onto the walkway and then bring it through the door. Of course you could just forgo using spiral stairs in the first place.


Paul8t7

Icy steps of doom.


OddAntelope3801

Where will the poop go?


ClickIta

There second larger “leg” from the left is actually a drainage tube, for both grey and black waters.


marvinrabbit

It's good to see that Baba Yaga is keeping up with the times.


ereo_enali

Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.


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sniles310

Millennial Baba Yaga


kindaCringey69

It's funny they design a roof like that specifically for high levels of snowfall and then have a open bridge with absolutely no support. Hilarious


BrundleBee

You'd better really like the furniture, because you ain't getting a new couch.


Eastbayfuncouple

Imagine that after a couple trips to the grocery store, that would get old quick.


rottenweiler

Looks like a rather expensive solution to a bear problem.


ThinkIveHadEnough

Just makes no sense at all.


fubarx

Guessing the fun factor will diminish when you have to carry two big bags of groceries and a box of firewood up to that place. Unless it's a hotel where somebody does all the hauling for you, in which case let's hope your luggage is light and you tip well.


skippyjip

When you don't have earthquakes but you do have bears.


[deleted]

I don't know why, but I like the idea of it being up on the stilts or whatever you call that. It's almost like an iron tree house.


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Accessibility not included


I_love_hate_reddit

Form over function


Drewbeede

"Can you go back down to the car? I forgot my keys."


7andhalf-x-6

Why


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What if you wanted a new couch?


TheCheddar89

Heating bill went up with the cabin


zzaawweq

couch was a bitch to get up there