We continue wreaking havoc in our kitchen. In our previous post we removed all hanging cupboards, a tall standing one and an elevated counter. Now it started to get really fun: removing the counter and all cupboards underneath. Nowadays you can get your countertops in a few different varieties: you can get them in wood …
When we bought the house there was this kitchen in it, in kind of an U-shape. One leg of the U against the wall, the lower part underneath the window, and then the other leg of the U being some kind of counter. This leg also had around 70cm of wall going up all the …
Last time we left off from our bathroom removal process with a bathroom that was empty, no longer cluttered with anything in it like a sink or a tub, or even cabinets. Before we could start building up our new bathroom however, we still had to do something about the room itself: the old ceiling, …
First thing we tackled, aside from the wallpaper, was the bathroom. I could let Chrisje work the wallpaper together with her parents (to which I owe thanks, as the method we used to get the wallpaper from the walls is actually a trick we learned from them), while I prepared the bathroom removal. Actually emptying …
When you enter somebody’s house, one of the things you really cannot not see is the paper or paint against the walls. As we mentioned before, our house underwent a renovation when the previous owners moved in, some 30 to 40 years ago. While they had been really playing it safe downstairs, with some kind …