HS Vantaa | “You could get really decent facilities from this” – the Hurmerinna couple received the label of genius in their own wedding barn

Than time travel.

It comes to mind when you sit on the steps of the shed in the yard of Villa Smeds. The sun shines from a cloudless sky, and the neighbor’s golden grain field glows next to it. The Vantaan River meanders through the woodshed. It will probably appear from behind the birch very soon Tauno Fire looking man to undress.

Before Tauno can come, the idyll is broken by a loud reminder of where we are. A cargo plane crosses the fields, skimming the treetops.

“The fact that this is in the aircraft noise area will hopefully limit construction on the field,” says the owner of Smeds Jani Hurmerinta.

However, airplanes are not the only source of noise disturbing the Hurmerinna family’s night sleep. The sound also comes from Villa Smeds, a party venue built in a barn opposite the main building.

But there’s nothing to complain about, because it’s the family’s own business.

“In the beginning, the party time lasted longer into the night, but the music keeps us residents of the main building awake. And watching over the wee hours every week is quite burdensome in the long run,” says another owner of Villa Smeds Heidi Hurmerinta.

In addition to the Hurmerints, another family lives in the main building. Hurmerinta thinks that the music mainly disturbs only those who live in the main building, because the home is next to the barn. In addition, the insulation of the old house is of a different class than that of the new neighboring houses, which were built with the aircraft noise area in mind.

Villa The main building of Smeds was built at a time when it was not possible to prepare for the current noise. At one time, the insulation of the house was good enough to dampen the neighing of horses, but it is not enough for music played with the help of amplifiers or airplane noise.

The exact construction time of the current main building is unknown, but it is certain that it was before the invention of airplanes.

“During the renovation, old newspapers with the year 1862 were found on the walls,” says Heidi Hurmerinta.

However, the leaves were probably put on the walls in connection with the expansion, because according to information from the Vantaa City Museum, the rectangular frame was erected at the beginning of the 19th century. Later, the building has been expanded and repaired several times. Insulation has also been added to the walls.

SMEDS however, the farm has been inhabited for a long time before this house.

The estate is one of the oldest known estates in Vantaa, and it was already established in the Middle Ages. The name of the farm probably refers to the fact that a smed, or blacksmith, worked somewhere in the house.

Most of the information about the farm’s inhabitants has been lost in the mists of time, but a few interesting details have been preserved.

It is clear from old court records that in 1640 the master of Smeds was Mickil Simonsson. He fell ill with leprosy and the neighbors took him to the hospital.

Doctor of archeology who studied the minutes Tuuli Heinonen according to the owner’s illness, it was the fate of the then main building.

“The villagers burned all the buildings on the farm in fear of the disease spreading.”

The story does not tell what happened to Simonsson or his wife and daughter when the house burned down, but they never returned. After the arson, the farm was deserted and it was put into use again in 1648.

After numerous changes of ownership, at the beginning of the 20th century, the farm was transferred to a breeding stock trader to Carl Vinqvist. When thinking about the future business of Hurmerinto, he was a significant figure, because it was he who built a large stable and barn on the farm around 1927.

During the war, the stable almost didn’t fly into the sky when several bombs fell in the courtyard. One of them damaged the stable, which nevertheless remained standing.

Certainly the large stable building was one of the reasons why the next owner also Arvid Åvall became interested in Smeds.

Åvall is known in horse circles as the man who brought the first warm-blooded horses to Finland. The Vermo racetrack still runs a race that bears the name of a well-known horseman: Arvid Åvallin Tammaderby.

At the time of Åvalli, Smeds farm included about 68 hectares of land. The farm’s long plot stretched all the way to Martinlaakso.

In the year In 1952, an authoritative guest arrived in these countries. The equestrian track used in the Olympics ran partly on the lands of Smeds, near the current Sanomala. There, the Duke of Edinburgh himself, the Prince of Britain, watched the race Philip.

When Philip returned to England, he left behind an Austin A40 Sports car.

“My mother Carita and his older brother Cain after a lot of pressure, their father Arvid Åvall bought the car from the Manteree car shop in Lahti in 1955,” says Arvid Åvall’s grandchild Jonas Malmström.

The color of the car was dark green “Edinburgh Green”, which was the official color of Prince Philip. 18-year-old Carita Åvall learned to drive with this car.

The family sold the car a few years later, and Malmström does not know where it is at the moment.

Any more With Smeds’ funds, it would not be possible to organize an Olympic-level equestrian competition, as most of the area has been sold. There is 1.3 hectares left, which the Hurmerinnas own together with another family living in the main building.

And you won’t see a cow anywhere else in the barn except on a plate, because since 2013, the barn has been celebrating.

“We bought the farm in 2012 and the following year we organized our own wedding in the barn. Then we started to think that we could get really decent facilities out of this,” says Heidi Hurmerinta.

The first renters came already the following year, even though the party space didn’t even have an indoor toilet then.

In the beginning, it was all the hustle and bustle of beginners anyway. The cleaning was done by myself and the crockery for 120 people was washed in a home dishwasher. In the cold weather of autumn, the electricity network could not withstand the load of the heaters and the fuses clicked off.

Nowabout 200,000 euros later, the barn has a kitchen and toilets, the electricity works, the walls are insulated and the slanted floor has been straightened.

But in addition to money, it has taken time. And when it finally started to look like you could start paying yourself a decent salary for the work, the crown came.

“The loss of income was huge. But fortunately, the space is our own. There was no need to fear that we would go bankrupt,” says Heidi Hurmerinta.

Money worries were also eased by the fact that Heidi has always had a day job in the financial industry. Villa Smeds has been Jani Hurmerinna’s main work.

“I handle the bureaucracy and Jani the creative work.”

Division obviously works well, because every weekend of the summer has been booked.

On summer weekends, the premises are mostly used for weddings, but during the week and in the fall, companies reserve the place. Then Jani Hurmerinta gets to use her creativity. Theme parties are available, such as the Wild West party organized on the day of the interview, with horseshoe throwing and a shooting contest. We should find a whip handler, but there aren’t really any skilled ones in Finland.

In planning the program numbers, Jani Hurmerinna’s previous work is helpful. For years, he worked as a program agency entrepreneur – and standing on top of it.

“I studied balance acrobatics at the Russian state circus school, and my main sport was standing on hands and feet.”

She went to school at the suggestion of a Russian acrobat coach, when the coach saw Hurmerinna doing tricks at Tanssiteatteri Hurjaruuthi.

A year at the circus school sounded good, and Hurmerinta took a leave of absence from her job as a physical education teacher and left for Russia as a dead end. After school, he worked as a teacher for another couple of years and then moved on to run his own program office.

“Each has its own time, very few people are acrobats at the age of 50.”

Although The work of an acrobat sounds exciting, according to Hurmerinto there will be no boredom in this job either. There is always a chance for surprises, like once in 2017.

That night, the Hurmerinnas didn’t have time to stay awake for the music, because a storm hit instead. Trombi felled 32 trees from the farm, some of them on the owners’ cars. It removed the roof sheets of the stable and blew up the outdoor tent of the wedding couple celebrating in the barn.

“However, the wedding obviously went well, because refunds were only applied for the unused tent”, smiles Heidi Hurmerinta.

“Accordingly, AC/DC’s Thunderstruck was playing at the wedding.”

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