I have put a picture here for you just in case you are unwilling to click on the link. The owners call it "The Pod" but its given name is Futuro. It was designed by a Finnish guy in the 60s, and it shows. Matti Suuronen designed the house for a Finnish doctor in 1965 as a ski cabin and before all was said and done it was being manufactured around the world, from Finland to South Africa to the United States. There are about 100 still floating around worldwide, and there is a somewhat dedicated owners group. And be dedicated owner's group I mean one guy who has a raging, mega-hard boner for them. They are entirely self contained (sort of), and they offer all the amenities that one would want in a ski cabin sort of environment. There is a three-burner electric stove with a broiler/oven/rotisserie combination thing attached, a dorm sized fridge, a dorm sized freezer, central heating and air conditioning, and a centrally located gas fireplace. Also included is a full-sized bathroom with stand up shower, and a teeny tiny little bedroom with a teeny tiny pie-shaped bed.
It is, however, not as small as I thought it would be. I was thinking cruise ship sized bathroom, but it was full sized and featured plenty of space. The bedroom was really little but it would be comfortable for one person. All you do there is sleep there anyway. The living room, however, is gigantic. There is a huge wrap around couch with these giant ottoman sort of things that you can use to turn it into a giant bed. I would totally live there if I were a bachelor living all by my lonesome. There is lots of room to entertain, even if it would be a little bit of a chore.
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Couldn't you see Shatner trying to get some tail in this living room? |
There are lots of little quirks, too. Like the coolest entry in the history of ever. The door opens and lowers down to show a set of steps, and it does it automatically and electronically with the push of a button. The owners of the one we stayed in had installed a screen door at the top of the steps which created a sort of vestibule area, which was nice because the windows don't open. That is a bad quirk. There are lots of windows in the Futuro but they are all oval shaped and they don't open. I understand that they were designed to be ski cabins but airflow in them is zero, or at least it would be without that nifty screen door attached.
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Tourism bureau beautiful pic of the lake. |
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