… and window replacement
Last week we laid out how we got to our choice of windows. This week it’s a load of photos on how they were replaced.
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Window shopping…
According to the Oxford Dictionary the definition of window shopping is The activity of looking at goods displayed in shop windows, especially without intending to buy anything That’s not what we’re about to do.
Let’s get concrete
With all the digging done, it is now time to move on to the next step. That next step is an easy one, and yet it’s also a back-breaking one: getting concrete. More specifically: getting 7m³ concrete into our house, and spread out over 50m². But how do you do that?
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New toy: Asus Transformer
Very recently, we received our latest addition to my never-ending collection of toys-for-boys: the Asus Transformer T100-TA. You guessed it right. This will be one of those boys-and-their-toys posts.
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On being a plumber
Yes! Finally! The much-anticipated plumbing post! Before digging any deeper, we had to come up with a plan. A plan on how we wanted to use all our to-be-floored-again rooms. So we needed…
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And ends in the kitchen!
Yes, it ends where it all began: the kitchen. At least the current demolition part ends here. But I guess you figured that out already, didn’t you? In the previous post you could read that I was chiseling away all those tiles (of the variety ugly and uglier). Above the counter there were even tiles
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The demolition continues…
Bad luck if you’d guessed we would continue the draining works now. No no no no no (and once more, no), we weren’t ready yet to create drains all the way. First, some more demolition needed to be done, so for a little while longer, we could keep messing around breaking stuff away from the
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Floor? What floor?
Now that we emptied a few rooms, it’s time to really start diggin’. Diggin’ deep that is. Let’s just dive in, shall we? Depending on how serious your renovation is, at some point you’ll need new electrics and/or new plumbing of any kind. If you’re on the ground floor with no basement or cellar, you
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Out goes the kitchen (part two)
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
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Out goes the kitchen
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
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