After last post we’re sitting on a pile of wood, ready to set a bonfire (or a pyre if you’d like). Or just warm the house. But how do you do that? The classical way If you ask 10 people to start a fire, 9 of them will tell you the following method: Pick up …
Cleaning. Everybody has to do it. Unless you hire it out. Or if you’re a caveman. But then you’d probably not be reading this anyway. Now that we had a finished floor all over our ground floor, I thought it wise to up my knowledge about cleaning a floor. Turns out you can easily make …
Before we bought our own house, we rented an apartment. When we moved in (a long time ago), we got (among other things) a tiny little plant from Chrisje’s grandmother. Somehow it managed to grow, and grow, and grow, and in the Spring of 2014 it had grown too big for the pot and support …
When thinking about an intro for this post, nothing came to mind. So you’re going to write about our bathtub, and how it got in place? Great. How do you get people excited to read about that? Maybe I can tell about how we chose our tub? How I had to go lying into it, …
Now that we have plumbing, drains and all other kind of tubing in place, it’s time to start putting things in place. We decided to start with the toilet, as there was going to be a wall next to it, dividing it from the shower, so we could tackle those two at the same time, …
And no, we’re not talking about the weapon (although that would be very cool to make it yourself, it’s most likely also very illegal), we’re talking about the kind of mortar that makes your bricks hold together. Sure, you can buy pre-mixed, but that’s not always an option (you only need a little, the store …
We continue with the floors on the first floor in this post. After removing all the carpet (still very glad that it’s gone) we were left with glue remains everywhere. As we were planning to have the tiles bare for some time (so that we could use the rooms while tackling the ground floor), it …
Back in the days when the previous owners did their remodelling, carpet was the next hot trend. So what we got stuck with (quite literally) was a first floor completely covered in a dark greenish carpet, full of dust that had been collected over the years, some stains from God knows what, some leftovers of …
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 …