Getting there

And just like that, another month has passed. I honestly can't say where the time went. Work, presumably. Friends, sleep, travel, food, ...stuff? And yet, so much has happened in our house! I have to add that 99% of the pictures displayed here are courtesy of my boyfriend, and 100% of the work was done by him and his father. My contributions this month have, alas, been almost non-existent. :(

So when I last updated this blog, we were in the middle of plastering the walls, transforming uneven, old bricks into smooth, grey awesomeness. As you can see in the following photographs, all the walls have now been covered, even the troublesome one containing the old window.

Starting on the ceiling was of course the logical next step. At 2.8 metres, the old ceiling was way too high, so we decided to lower it to a more manageable 2.45. First of all, an aluminium grid was put in place which was screwed into the walls to secure it as well as hung from the ceiling on metal hooks.

 Big, fluffy rockwool on top, to keep us well-insulated at all times.
Plasterboard makes up the actual ceiling.

Slowly and steadily, the plasterboard is sneaking along our new, suspended, ceiling...

...until it almost reaches the window.

 In the meantime, we bought a front door.

 Our kitchen arrived.

 My wonderful boyfriend painted the front door and its frame brown, so that it would later match the windowframes and shutters.

 The ceiling was finished.

 This is what it looks like now.

Front door in its place. We now have a non-draughty, secure front door, which meant we were ready for the next big step:

 Making a great, big hole in the wall between the kitchen and the future living room!
The door on the left leads to our wee bathroom, the future guest bathroom. Off to the right is the living room.

Sadly, the lovely floorboards had to go, because the radiator needed to move from the now non-existent wall to the other wall.

 Rubble!

 "There's a hole in your wall!"

Now we can enter our part of the house without having to go outside. :)

 Work clothes after a busy day.

 Please note: my amazing boyfriend actually BUILT this box! There used to be a window up there, but as the ceiling has now been lowered by 40cm, that window would be partially obscured.

 Our front door from the outside.

New door, new tile border, all it needs now is a new welcome mat. I'm thinking of this one: Doctor Who welcome mat What do you think? ;)


I have more pictures from last weekend, but they still need to be converted from RAW into jpg, and I need to be up in 6 hours. Watch this space!

Incidentally, I'm thinking about this for the garden path leading up to the door. A low-tech version maybe, using glow-in-the-dark paint and some pebbles? Hmmm...