All rooms have walls

For the first time in weeks we visited the house yesterday afternoon, and took some pictures.

We have been busy with the children being ill and home from school, and at the same time deciding a million details for the house, such as electricity (number and placement of outlets, switches, dimmers, spotlights, indoor and outdoor lamps etc.), plumbing (placement of the upstairs radiators, type of faucets etc.), tiling for bathrooms and kitchen, finalizing the layout and design of the kitchen (number and placement of drawers and cabinets) and so on…

All rooms now have their walls. They are still open to one side, so the electrician can do his job next week, putting wires in the walls.

The most fun was seeing the rooms on the second floor. One can now walk around safely upstairs, because there is now a floor. Still no stairway though. It will be one of the last things installed, because it will stand on the parquet flooring, which is not to be installed for months.

This is the upstairs bathroom (to the left) and one of the bedrooms.

Here a few pictures turning left in the upstairs hall.

We decided on much larger windows facing south, and they really do let in a lot of light!

The only one who didn’t like these windows was Dan the Builder, but that was just because the window balcony were complicated to install, with lots of parts.

As a comparison, here are the normally sized windows on the opposite wall.

Here is a better view of the two side-by-side bedrooms.

This is how one of the three upstairs bedrooms look, they are all the same.

More rooms

Tuesday morning, there were a few more walls up on the ground floor. This is the hall. The small room with the window is the guest toilet, and the slightly larger one to the right is a clothes closet.

Here “Mrs Pixel” is standing in the kitchen (a “remove-me–or-die”-edit :-)). One can also see the entrance to the hall and our bedroom. There will be a bedroom door near where the clothes closet wall ends.

Here we can see the wall separating the stairs from the office is also in place.

It will be very interesting when the stairs are put in place. It’s not easy visualizing from the blueprints how it will actually look. I hope it’s not too bulky.

The first room

When we visited today, the walls of the first room was in place! It is the ground floor bathroom. Bastian checked it out, but was happier playing with the sawdust while dad took a million boring photos.

Beatrice wanted to help …

… gather a lot of sawdust, that is. ;-)