Caution, Wet Paint

Now, most of the painting in the house is finished. Most of it is white, but not quite (!) since there’s a very slight note of grey in it.

The rest of the house is mostly white as well, with the exception of the bathrooms (of which you’ve seen one), the kitchen (oak/gray/black), a single wall in our bedroom (light blue) and our entire clothes cabinet (dark red), all of which I’m sure we will be showing you in some later posts.

Not all of it is finished. Especially not the kitchen, which have not yet even begun to arrive. Only the ceramic floors are done, the wooden floors for the rest of the house have arrived, but is still in boxes until all of the painting is done.

The living room area

Here are a few pictures of the living/dining room area. The round window still looks great. But it will be a challenge to put anything decorative in the window. Perhaps something hanging?

The beams will be painted in an oak finish (not yet done in this picture) matching the rest of the woodwork in the house.

Still no stairway. I’m really curious on how that will look when installed.

Wanna go Upstairs?

Bastian fearlessly climbed the ladder to check out his room. I guess it’s plain which one is his, and which one belongs to Beatrice?

And, yes, since you asked, we actually do try to encourage gender equality/neutrality, but it (obviously) takes other forms than forcing the kids to have yellow and green rooms. Their current room (which they share) is incidentally painted purple. But that was done when they were much too young to argue :-)

Storage space

I still haven't had a chance to see what became of the attic. I wonder how much usable space there is left? When moving in, we will be in sore need of storage space, since we put off building a garage for now.

Most likely we need to quickly build at least a garden shed for the stuff that we don’t want to keep in the house, such as the lawnmower :-).