Mechelininkatu 12-14

Character-filled rental home within walking distance of Helsinki city centre

Bright urban home by the park

Completed in 1932, this solid stone building boasts a genuine Töölö atmosphere. The higher floors have views extending all the way over the sea, and the traditional lift provides easy access to your floor. The thick walls, spacious rooms with high ceilings and deep window sills of this prestigious sold-stone building evoke a spirit of times past. The newly installed windows with real wood frames guarantee not only loads of light but also excellent sound insulation.

The building has six residential storeys plus commercial units at street level, a basement and an attic. Its three stairwells house a total of 108 studio and one-bedroom homes as well as 11 commercial units. The floor plans are adaptable to match a variety of life situations. The spacious, airy rooms are easy to furnish and, best of all, upgraded to current standards in the full modernisation taking place in 2023.

Each home has a wire storage locker and bikes can be stored in the outdoor equipment storage rooms. The building’s sauna section and adjacent lounge area are up in the attic and while the laundry and drying room are in the basement. While the building has no designated parking, on-street parking is readily available in the area.

The lovely deep window sills echo the building’s history and the large windows typical of the period let in plenty of natural light.

The peaceful inner courtyard with pleasant seating is the perfect place for a cup of coffee in the summer. The courtyard runs into a wider shared block courtyard with lawns, mature trees and other greenery.

Fully modernised yet true to its heritage, this building provides an exceptional setting for urban living. The block will also have its own deli boutique, when a bakery opens in the fall of 2023 on the ground floor of the building.

The homes are equipped with new wooden windows that open inwards and are fitted with special glazing. The inner surfaces of the window frames are finished in white paint. All windows are fitted with Venetian blinds and feature double curtain tracks.

The kitchen cabinet doors are in white microlaminate with vertical wood grain patterning. The kitchen worktops are in light-coloured marble-look laminate and the backsplashes in marble-look composite panel. The modern kitchens are equipped with a ceramic cooktop with two or four burners. Other appliances are white: dishwasher, cooker hood, oven and fridge-freezer. There is space for a microwave in the kitchen units.

The apartment walls are painted in an off-white shade, and the floors are in footfall sound-reducing pale warm-toned oak-effect laminate. The building has a centralised mechanical air intake and displacement system with air heat recovery. The property has district heating.

The bathroom floors are done in grey 10x10 cm tile with a textured look, the walls in large white tile and the ceilings in white-painted wood. The bathrooms come with Finnish, durable and easy-care Kide range furniture, and some of the bathrooms are also equipped with a laundry cabinet. The bathrooms have space and hook-ups for a washing machine. The wet rooms have electrical underfloor heating.