Mattress Making

This is a post of making a baby size futon bed!

The story starts from here. Our one-and-a-half-year-old wanted her own bed, since her cousin happened to have one and we found this for her from the nearby recycle center.

Since we have always been sleeping on a futon family bed AND we happened to have this wreck of a hemp futon upstears for my furniture work I decided to make the mattress with her out of this.

So first we cut a lot of slices of coconut fiber and hemp and stacked them up.

We added the cotton sheets in bedween to make it fluffy.

Then I sew a bag with a zipper out of the remnants of the bed and we added little more cotton to the top and the bottom.

Then with a lot of squeezing all of it got in and...

 ...first the mattress looked like this.

 And after evening it out - gorilla style - we sew the original felt buttons on place with a huge needle to hold it firm.

 This is how it came up.

A sweet place to dream!

Floor heating system

We bought this awesome old house from Asola near Helsinki and since it needs some serious renovation, I will make a series of blog posts about it!

Under the plastic carpet of the kitchen we found this lovely wooden floor.

And since it was squeaking and bending we decided to undo it and stack it again with a floor heating pipes under it, since a ground-source heat pump system be installed later.

 The woodchip insulation was in good condition, so I got the plumming fixed for the kitchen, pulled the electric wires under the carrier beams and evened it out adding some pulp slabs for insulation.

Then off I went one morning to this surrealistic junkyard to see if I would find something usefull for the floor heating system.

And SCORE! I found what I came looking for after hiking the mountains of aluminium.
Right there in the front middle of the picture, almost a hundred kilo roll of unused 0,5mm thick aluminium, perfect for the floor!

Why..?


Because these are sold for the same purpose aprox 8€ a piece, and that would be thousands of euros for the whole house.

So I took the time and with the sleight of the hand got the sheets ready for the heat pipes.
At times it was like wrestling with huge aluminium snake with sharp edges.

Then we put the pipes in place holding them down with planks until the floor boards came to rescue.

Everything went well, though I had to cut three new pieces for the end since it is now tighter and few boards had to be changed.

After the rest of the kitchen is made, this will be painted and warmed up for the feet :)