I’ve been pondering a while how to open this post. I found it to have a lack of body. But there’s pictures! A lot of them! I guess it’s ok not to write a lot every once in a while. As long as there are pictures. So dive in to see how we splashed paint […]
Painting the ceiling in the living room Read More »
What good is a frame without any drywall attached to it? None, I tell you! So I present you: drywall against the frame!
Drywall to the frame! Read More »
Because it’s all fun and stuff. Juggling with metal studs. I do it every day. I eat them for breakfast. No, not really. But I did have to do a lot of planning to set up the frame, and that’s what we’ll be talking about today.
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Aah, the first step to a useful living room: create more dust and mayhem! Why? Because it’s fun! And because all those nifty comfortable things we’ve gotten used to so badly don’t work for themselves: they need electricity. But we don’t want that to be visible, do we?
Electricity in the living room! Read More »
Living and dining room, sitting in a tree, K-I-… Wait, that doesn’t make any sense. At all. Or does it? In our case, it does, as they are practically one room. So we treat them as one as well.Â
Planning the living room Read More »
The final nail in the coffin of what used to be our living room: getting rid of the old wallpaper. Now this wallpaper had all the looks of being a more feisty opponent than what we had removed so far, so we came prepared.
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The fireplace wasn’t the only thing we wanted gone in our future living room. No, no, no. There was also the old ceiling, exactly the same as we used to have in our kitchen. And what went out there also has to go now.Â
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With the kitchen done, what’s the next logical step, the next logical room to tackle? Well, in our minds that was the living and dining room. As it’s practically one open space, we’re going to tackle them together. The cycle can restart, and hence it’s demolition time!
Fireplace and chimney, be gone! Read More »
With the water tubing in place, I rolled out quite a lot of electrical cabling (those of you that already noticed in the photos, well done!). As with the water this required some planning beforehand, as we were trying to find out what we wanted to go where. But we managed, and how!
More laying out: electric cables Read More »