RUM 1

Here we go , RUM no. 1

There are still some picture missing on the wall but I am done with furnishing it.

Bed from Ikea, Carpet from Rusta, Mirror from a countryside shop, the rest I bought

second hand, beside of the chair from Ikea as well.

WARDROBE

Goody good, things are going on, slowly but surely.
Week 10, I started renovating old wardrobes. We recycled them from the former owner of the house. Each of the rooms will get one of them. 60x60x200 m. They did not have a socket så Kåre was forced to build one for both of them meanwhile I was in charge of make them look nice.

So, for the romantic room we choosed to paint the one side in the same colour as the walls. We will later on make som nice decorations on that.
For the little room I decided to buy a tapestry to make it look more boatish, as long as boatish as we can get. For the inside I bought cheap present paper to cover the old baskets

and we also added in the corner of the room a little space to hang on jackets and put in the suitcases.

PICTURE WALL AND KITCHEN READY

The kitchen is almost ready! Look at it.

What do you think about the picture tapestry?

Does it look good?

And to match the black and white we bought this nice lamp with black glass and steel.

Hard working?

Well, as a thank you for all the hard work Leo found a new way of amusing himself!

WINTER IS BACK

The winter is back or better said, finally we got some winter, but just for a night and day.

Saturday night the snow was falling so nicely. Before I went to bet I look out of the window and I took this picture of my balcony.

The next day it was like that!!

PROTECT THE FLOOR

Now that the floor is layed very important is to try not to ruin it, so don't forget to put these amazing little things under every furniture piece you got and your floor will last longer.

NEW FLOOR

Saturday we dedicated the day to put in the new floor in the bigger room.

As you can see we put a layer first of plas that helps absorbing noise while walking on it.

Then we bought a clic floor, actually pretty much easy to do. Colour cherry.

What do you need to do this?

You have to leave about 8 mm free space on all sides. Wood has to breath and work and it helps you while putting the floor as well.

What more do you need to have fun while working?

My cat Tigris of course! She is always curious about what I am doing, so she comes, gets her pet and caresses and then she is happy and goes upstairs again. And in case you might wonder what I have on my ears, is because Kåre is (beside of taking picture of me here) cutting wood in the other room. The cutting machine is very LOUD!

After the parkett was layed we started putting the lists around and here you need another kind of sawing machine. See picture below.

Be careful to saw right corners otherwise it doesn't match with the other list.

And the final touch is to fix the lists with nails and the easiest way is to have a friend that has a building company and borrows you this quicky nail airpress machine. And the work is done!!

Take a nap

Time to take a nap, see you next week with new pictures!

TAP a story on its own

Here how to mount a tap in the basin.
First you drill a little whole, then with a special drilling/cutter piece you cut out the round hole where later the tap will be fixed.

Here the finished result!

I never thought it could be so fun to build and renovate.

KITCHEN PART 2

Finally we got back the kitchen working plate from the carpenter with the washbasin in and now it was time to cut out the whole for the hot plates and prepare the rest.

Kåre screwing on the hotplates before refinishing with silicone.

It was then time to prepare the tap for the washbasin.

Electricity was done by a professional and now we could finally install the electricity hood with carbon filter.

BATHROOM

So, while we were waiting for the electrician to finish his job and som other spare parts to arrive, we started with the bathroom.

We emptied everything beside the washbasin, we cleaned the floor and prepared to paint the corner where the showercabin would be then mounted.

Then it was time for me to start painting with a plastic colour made for bathroom which are called here in Sweden, Våtrumsfärg. It's blue and it sticks. 1 time with it, then another time and then we put on a special bathroom tapestry and I painted with that blue colour finally a last time

To finish everything I painted with the regular colour that I wanted it to be. Orange/yellow, a happy colour to wake up in the morning which matches the old tapestry.

BEWARE OF THE CAT

A few people might have dangerous dogs taking care of their houses, we have LEO.

Just beware of him!

NEW ENTRANCE DOOR

Another helping hand....our good friend Enrica came and helped us changing the entrance door.

An old horrible balcony door, has been changed with a brand new, with secured glas . Here some sequences. It was a very cold day and poor men had to work partly outside. But they good some good SEMLA and coffee and food afterwards.

MAMA HELPING

Gosh, how good to have a mother.

January month my mom stayed with us and helped us a lot, while we were building downstairs with all the normal work upstairs. She took simply care of us. 81 years old and still a hero for me.

Here, she came down to look how we manage and say hi.

RENOVATING EXISTING WALLS

It was time to take away the old tapestry from the walls and renovate it. It was mostly impossible to paint over the old one. The glue wouldn't hold, so we bought a renovating tapestry to put over the existing walls. The result is astonishing, like you would have put up a brand new wall. Very good also as an extra isolation.

So here the before and after

Electricity step 1

A professional electrician was called to prepare the cables inside the walls before closing them forever.

After that we closed with a wooden wall and a plaster wall on both side, which gives you a real wall at the end.

NEW ROOMS

Before we bought the house, the most important thing was that we were able to could rent out a part to students. Gothenburg has an extremely need of rooms for students. It is very very hard to get apartments especially if you are a foreigner.

When we saw this beautiful little house in Bergsjön (outside the centre of Gothenburg, but still belonging to Gothenburg commun) we really wanted to have it. All our ideas of making it what we wanted it to be, was fullfilled. We only had to make som renovating works downstairs.

We would live on the first floor with a separate entrance.

Downstairs there was a little room (office), a bathroom and a big room with a door to the garden.

We wanted to built a wall in this big room and make it a bigger sleeping room and a kitchen/dinner room/entrance hall.

We started by building a woodden structure and add woodden panels on both side.

Between the wooden walls we filled with fiberglas isolation to reduce noice between the rooms.

A NEW KITCHEN

A new kitchen will be born, of course from IKEA

Kåre is preparing the ground to put up the basement elements for the kitchen. The old owners had some wardrobes standing here, which are very useful, but we want to make this part of the house useful for students so that they are able to cook food and of course for our future guests as well.

Here the prepared holes where to lead the waterpipes coming from the bathroom on the other side (cold/warm) and the drainpipe for the kitchen basin. Kåres nicely calculations on the wall.

A half day later, the first elemens of the kitchen are standing.