Reader Mail: More Mokki Cottages
I recieved a lovely email from a reader over the weekend raving about mokki cottages and she even sent a picture of her parents’ mokki:
She writes:
I grew up in Finland and I have spent so many wonderful summer days and endless midsummer nights near a lake or bay enjoying the peace and quiet of a mokki! It is something extraordinary; to give up electricity and many times running water, to spend a weekend or even a week far away from the busy modern life.
I have to say that ‘endless midsummer nights’ sound pretty wonderful to me. Thanks for sharing Minna! Any other cottages out there you’d like to share, dear readers?
February 25th, 2008 11:05
I want to go there NOW!
February 25th, 2008 17:10
i feel far too clumsy and tall to enjoy a weekend that in that little hobbit house - but it’s very pretty!
March 2nd, 2008 23:41
Tina — you aren’t clumsy and even though you think that I’m a hobbit, I think that I can rival any TALL person (*wink*).
March 3rd, 2008 17:56
This cottage is so adorable!! I could live here, running water & electricity or not… Thanks!
March 3rd, 2008 22:24
Thanks to all of you for the sweet comments about mom and dad’s mokki!
Hehe, I know it looks small and yes, it is small even by our standards. But very cozy! Don’t worry, a tall person would fit quite nicely in there. Perhaps not much room for wild dancing indoors, but we can dance outside all night long since it doesn’t get dark in the summer.
The main part of the mokki is one big room with a small sleeping alcove. There is a separate entrance to a sauna. And yes, there is running water in this mokki — but only in the sauna and outside (!) in the form of two coldwater faucets!
Water cannot be used in the winter because all the water lines are frozen. You can heat up water in the sauna in a water boiler and then mix it with cold water to a tolerable temperature. Yup, that’s how they did it back in the day! No electricity in this mokki but instead a fireplace and many candles.