May 2014, May 2016

Facebook prompted before & after, two years and two days:

The hillbilly roof protected our tomato crop for two years

Kitchen window post

This post was a long way coming. Since I have a lot of images to post, I have been experimenting with some code added to the blogger template in order to have galleries to display the images. It is very clunky but it does the job. I should seriously consider importing this blog into my main website blog, but I have to think how and if I'd still like to keep it more separated.

Meanwhile, let us continue.

It has been cold, wet, and miserable. January and February are not pleasant to work around outside here. Luckily Pim and his father do not seem to mind too much, I have bad joints and I just can't work in these conditions, so besides a coat of paint in a small surface while wearing a Peruvian oversize pullover (what a wuss right?) I have done nothing of this project until the windows were in. By March however I have started gardening ;P

In the gallery below we pick up where we left in the last post:

• Sliding door beam concrete-d, bricks removed, edges redone. First time we can really see some of the garden from the house. In this case, a big pile of bricks :D
• Dining room window (where the shed door used to be) beam placed and concrete-d, bricks removed to widen, bricks added to make door into window, edges redone.
• Bit of wall where the radiator goes gets painted, green of course, and the radiator put up (it was in the way, this is one very large and 100 kg heavy motherfucker).
• Existing door widened, some bricks added between the pre-existing door and window for a stronger structure.
• Existing window narrowed and lowered to be as low as the kitchen counter.
• Outer windowsill stones (Belgian blue sandstone) placed. Some of these are very heavy... unlike other windowsills in the house, we had them delivered, but Pim and his dad installed them. I was able to help moving a couple ;P
• Threshold stones placed, same as above.
• After some delay, windows, door and sliding door/window? placed by the window guys today!
• And now PHEW!

And now, onto other kitchen things... walls, floor, insulation...

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Wide angle befores

We're not updating very often anymore, but here comes a biggie. We have other things to write about, but that'll have to wait. 

We got a wide angle lens and it's awesome, we should have gotten it much sooner! It'll be great for before and after shots, too bad we'll have to do with in-between and after images. I went around the house and the garden and took a few shots. These are 100% unstaged, I did not clear anything away for them, tools, rubble, and everyday mess. So a bunch of befores.

Hall and staircase:

Front living room:

Back living room (currently "kitchen"):

Future kitchen and dining room, as you can see we have lots of work ahead:

We have ordered the new windows and door for this space, and after paying for that we'll be out of money and will need to save before we can afford the kitchen proper.

Outside court:

Bathroom, which is the second most finished room:

Bedroom (most finished room but not quite there yet):

Workshop landing:

Workshop:

Attic bedroom (spare now):

And a couple of the garden (more here):

An intermezzo

Because everyone loves before and after pictures, right? I didn't get the angle exactly right, both sets were taken with different phones. The old pictures were taken on our first visit to the house (with the real estate agent).

I forgot a cleaning rag in the washbasin, let's say it looks lived-in ;)

9 February 2013

6 March 2015

9 February 2013

6 March 2015

Some things are in store. More soon.

PS: the bathroom is not finished, but it is indeed the most finished room in the house.