A couple exterior details on the front before moving to the back: The living room volume (left photo) has large windows with wood frames and cladding above the stone base; steel rods accept shutters that protect the glass. The white corner (right photo) that turns toward the kitchen-service leg of the L-plan has wood sticks layered over the walls; the angled bay windows serve the children's bedrooms. The latter's wood decoration is part of Aalto's forest metaphor, for which the verticals of trees are also echoed in columns and other surfaces, inside and outside.