ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

The building represents a “brus”-type (I-type) of a peasant’s house. Accommodations and utility rooms are situated one after another under a common symmetrical gable roof; the plan of the construction represents an oblong rectangular. To the southern side of the “seni” (anteroom) there is a low porch covered with a gable roof. On the opposite side “vzvoz” (ladder leading to the household part) is erected. Living part of the house is two-stored. The first floor, consisting of “izba” (a living-room) and “gornitsa” (guest-room), was used as a winter apartment, while the second floor, having the same leveling, was used in summer. Spacious anteroom with an inner ladder connects living and utility rooms. A barn and a cattle-shed are the same log construction, as there are no posts, supporting the shed walls above the pinfolds, and the ground floor is a common cattle barn. A separate cattle barn in Karelian houses was usually railed off only for young animals.

The walls are made of pine logs. Thin fur trunks with roots were also used for constructing the roof. The foundation of the house is made of large stones with smaller stones filling the gaps between them.

The distinguishing features of the house décor are the zigzags of window cases and the predomination of geometrical ornament in different elements. The single rosettes on the facial board and the arch and pillars of the balcony are very typical for Karelian houses.Front facade is divided into two unequal parts. Many windows with ornate cases and a beautiful balcony with two arches, decorated with a fretwork, make the building especially attractive.