Origin of the Moomin house

Since the the question was raised (ok, I raised it), I found out after a little googling why the Moomin's house resembles a lighthouse. When she was a child Tove Janson's family rented a summer house on Glosholm, which had both a lighthouse, Pellinge fyr, and a coast pilot station.

"Men fyren, fyrens idé, hade blivit mycket viktig för mig, jag drömde om att nångång få bli fyrvaktare, efterhand drömde jag om att bo på en ö där det fanns en fyr; och sen, långt senare, önskade jag mig ingenting annat än att få bo på en ö. Ni undrar om fyren eller lotsstugan kan ha varit förebild för muminhuset, det är nog, utan vidare, fyren."

"But the lighthouse, the idea of a lighthouse, had become very important to me, I dreamt about sometime becoming a guardian of a lighthouse, then I dreamt about living on an island where there was a lighthouse; and then, far later on, I wished nothing else but to live on an island. You wonder if the lighthouse or the coast pilot's house could have been a model for the Moomin house. It is , without question, the lighthouse."

-Tove Jansson

(More here, in swedish)

/O.K.