Torsten Boisman (1872–1958) was an appellate court counselor who was fond of drawing and landscape painting, and spent his summers in Sysmä's Suopelto at least in the 1920's. He mostly painted landscapes. Ilola Inn has two doors painted by him as a memory of him. One of them is the door to the upstairs balcony and the other is the door between the downstairs restaurant hall and the kitchen. We wanted to save them in the renovation as a breath of the past.
The doors were presumably painted during the time when Ilola Inn served as Suopelto's motel hosted by Onni Schildt. Perhaps Torsten was the summer guest of motel and wanted to leave his host a thank you in the form of paintings. Or perhaps he had spent the evening sitting with the other summer residents of Suopelto. As a sign of evening parties, Onni Schildt always lit a fire in the oven and the smoke rising from the chimney was an invitation to come to the evening. Presumably several happy evenings were spent in the motel.
Other original elements in Ilola Inn include e.g. log walls that were blown clean with dry ice and tiled again. Log walls can be seen in the downstairs restaurant hall and the Onni luxury suite, but the entire Ilola Inn is log-framed. The baking oven built from giant stones in the hotel's restaurant hall is also original and still in use. Ilola Inn's balcony with its beautiful wood carvings is also original, although today it has been reinforced.