Finnish designers Aleksi Hautamäki and Milla Selkimäki spent at least five years searching Google Maps for an island and eventually they found a roughly five-acre island in Finland. The couple bought the property in 2018 and transformed the rocky, uninhabited property into a remote getaway called Project Ö.
The couple sold their Helsinki apartment to help fund the project. They built a compact retreat that runs largely off-grid, using solar power and seawater filtration and later on, the property became a rental that was listed for as much as $2,400 a night, according to Business Insider.
