Antti Kekola & Nelli Miettinen : Roots and grain

Roots and Grain describes the role that Honkarakenne has long played as a trailblazer in log construction. Honka is a pioneer in healthy living whose high-quality log buildings have been built aroun the world for over sixty years. The business that the Saarelainen brothers started in Lieksa in the 1950s has grown into an international success story.
Success did not come immediately, nor was it easy. In the early years, the founder brothers ran the business tirelessly, while also giving their all to develop operations and new tools. Gradually, the sacrifices and hard work started to pay off. The decades provided many events and surprising turns, enough to make into a film.

Today Honka builds detached houses and summer houses, as we as terraced houses, nursery schools, care homes, hotels and even hospitals, from logs. Even though logs are a very traditional material, Honka's buildings also include the newest innovations and state-of-the-art technology. The customer, the person living in the log house, experiences the harmony of these carefully matched features in the form of good living.

From another perspective, the Honka story is only beginning and it looks as if the popularity of log construction is growing. Honka has always gone in pace with development, be that in design, raw materials, or structures. So, as demand grows and quality requirements become stricter, Honka is ready to take on the challenges. Sixty years on the market gives Honka a good basis for growth as it reaches for the sky.