Marimekko's Head Designer is at home with beige
For Satu Maaranen, the soft neutrals of her historic downtown Helsinki apartment are a welcome counterpoint to the vibrancy of professional life at Marimekko. Her love affair with neutrals began w...
Hazy afternoon light filters through the blocks of Helsinki’s city center, finding its way through wide windows and into the home of Roosa and Mici. Their timeless Art Nouveau building holds a hom...
Getting cozy with Samu-Jussi Koski
The wind gusts from the gunmetal sea, up a hill, through the streets of the Art Nouveau quarters of Helsinki towards Uspensky Cathedral. Here, at street-level, providing respite from the Katajanok...
Immersed in art with Krista Kosonen
Beforeigners actress Krista Kosonen has found her favorite spot. It’s the corner of the living room of her new home, where she can watch life go by from the shelter of Helsinki’s historic Temppeli...
Villa Ekkulla: A place to get into the 70s mood
A few years back, word of a delightful old house for sale in the small seaside town of Dragsfjärd took creative entrepreneur Anna Helminen to the Finnish island of Kemiönsaari. It was there she fo...
Color palette from the beaches of Hanko
A few blocks from the coastal boulevard, a beautiful 1907 log house stands tall. After years of searching, it was through word-of-mouth that Mervi and Petri finally found this unique holiday home ...
Bringing Brazil’s sunshine to Helsinki
Brazilian-born designer, Florence, traveled the world to set up her business amid the green streets and 1960s apartment blocks of Helsinki’s Hermanni. Her globetrotting story comes alive in the c...
A white shade for an airy home
A few years ago, entrepreneur Kirsikka Simberg would have imagined herself living in a dark and moody “fixer-upper” apartment with a 70s vibe. Or perhaps a stone house that evoked her carefree day...
On the banks of a tranquil river at Vanhankaupunginkoski sits a charming, red brick apartment block. This mid-16th century electricity transformer station harks back to the founding of Helsinki. H...
Anna Puustjärvi and her family were not supposed to move. Let alone buy a two-storey “fixer upper” that would bring them joy and despair in equal measure. A year later, the musician is in love wit...
Love’s labors restore a 50s soul
A picturesque coastal home and a unique architectural gem from the1950s, the family home of Joanna Amemori is truly a renovator’s delight. The interior designer at Artek tells of the labors of lov...
Inspired by the leafy streets and wooden houses of Puu-Käpylä, Joni and Ronja finally found their style. In their 1920s apartment building, intuition and a sense of fun flirt with the classics for...
Tuscan vibes meet northern shores
A gravel road with deciduous trees leads to the courtyard of the old manor house. The entrance to the gabled brick mansion is decorated with columns. From the back of the manor house a meadowy hil...
Herttoniemenranta’s bright, turn-of-the-millennium apartment blocks sit by the sparkling waters of the Baltic sea. They are home to Ilona and Anssi, who were drawn to this locale by their love of ...
In the Helsinki suburb of Laakso, the peace of nature meets the hustle and bustle of city life. On the seventh floor of a mid-20th century apartment, Jirka and Lauri's new home is full of color an...
Wood and warmth in the inner-city
The joy of finding the perfect item second-hand can last for a lifetime, whether it’s a garment or a piece of furniture. But Kiira and Jussi never dreamed they’d find their perfect home in a Faceb...
A nautical 90s build with a contemporary twist
Designed by an architect with a functionalist bent, with its latticed lintel and ship cabin windows, Jenni and Tommi’s family home is striking from the outside. The all-white interior had a lot t...
Light and shade: The office of Cover Story’s Päivi Häikiö
The office of Cover Story's Design Director feels peaceful as she observes the bright afternoon sun traversing along a beige wall. Päivi Häikiö knows that the atmosphere of a space is the sum of ...
Terhi Pölkki’s flagship boutique
Terhi Pölkki's namesake shoe brand turns ten this summer. Wood, leather and hand-stitched details are hallmarks of her designs, which often feature chunky heels and playful textures. The brand’s...
In a room lined with pink flamingo wallpaper and showcasing head-to-toe monochrome outfits, you’ll find stylist Meri Milash. Colors are her life. Ensconced in an office that abounds with delightf...
A gravel road skirts the suburb of Puistola, where stand-alone houses sit beside a lush forest. A row of brick terrace houses sits adjacent to this delightful patch of suburban wilderness and, fr...
Oriental eclecticism meets 70s style
The unassuming brick exterior of a house in Helsinki conceals hidden delights. Within these walls, 70s architecture, Nordic design and the echoes of adventures past coexist amid warm, woody tones...
At the heart of the trendy Helsinki suburb of Sörnäinen, Oskari and his partner Jere occupy a cosy apartment behind the yellow and white facade of a classic 1900s building. Near to both the sea a...
A problem, lucky encounters, and ambition – Cover Story's co-founder Anssi Jokinen shares how he realised painting needed a makeover. How was Cover Story born? Cover Story was born out of a real l...