Well, after some issues with Lientje (our provider) and a new wordpress version I am back on track!

Last weekend we have been very busy. Onno en Tiemen came to help us and put up some walls on the first floor again.

Because the walls are so high it was decided to put some extra wood inbetween the framework so that the insulation material won’t just slide down to the bottom. Poor Onno had to saw most of the gibboard but it looks amazing now

.Andrew was buys with the electrical stuff. The whole house needs to be rewired so that is a massive job. It also makes the house a very dangerous place because he keeps on opening floorboards everywhere

I was busy on the attic. I wanted to start painting the kidsroom. So that at least their rooms are finished when we move in. But I hat not calculated to be so busy with the prepairing. I took the floor mats out of all rooms in the attic and some of it was very old. One room had at least 4 layers of mats on top of each other each one filthier than the previous one.

I looked like I had worked a day on Motutapu working gorse!

But at least Niene’s room has been sanded and is now ready for some paint and Caspian’s room has been stripped from the old wallpaper that was nailed to a wooden wall. I still have to take out the thousand and something nails that have been used.

All in all it was a very productive saturday.

This week, the guys from Haafkes and Assendorp started working again after their christmas break and coming weekend we will start painting and who knows put up some more walls together with Onno, Guido and Erica

And a picture of downstairs with a makeshift kitchenisland:

We are now three weeks into the renovation of the GvB 55. We had a bit of a break due to Sinterklaas but went full on the last week. Most of the breaking work has been done and upstairs there is now the biggest toilet space ever.

The dividing walls of the back rooms and the big front room and back room have been gone. And the only working toilet is in this space. It is a very odd experience using the toilet up there.

Downstairs the old kitchen has been completely stripped also of the chimney. The old guest toilet has gone as well and we filled another container with rubble.

The sunroom has been stripped of its floor and has reveiled some rotten beams underneath and an outerwall that has completely detached itself from the main building. It will be some extra work to get this fixed. The contractors have dug an immense hole to have a look at the foundation of the sunroom. That is really interesting and I would like to have a look myself, who knows what we will find in artefacts…..

The house is build on an old canal that has been filled up so there has to be lots of interesting stuff in the ground. But I must say that I will also be happy when the wall is fixed and the floor levelled.

The coming two weeks the contractors will be busy with just that. Also the big tear in the wall between us and the neighbour is going to be fixed now.

We are trying to decide on the kitchen. We have decided to put it in the old dining room and sunroom and have dining room in the old kitchen. Mostly because nowadays we mostly live in and around the kitchen it and the old dining room and sunroom are very nice spaces. There are a few option but all have their pros and cons so it is hard to decide what the best option is.