My God, it’s full of stairs!

OK, Bonus points for catching the movie reference, but I wanted to tell you that the stairs have been installed! And we all thought they look great! The pictures are taken through the windows, because no one was there to let us in, but still, we could not resist showing them to you.

On a side note, the wood burning stove has been installed as well as you can see on the far wall. More pictures of that later, I suppose.

This, admittedly horrible, photomontage is trying to piece together two not too great pictures showing both the railings on the upper floor, and most of the stairs, seen from the window above the landing.

The stairs was one part of the house where we knew very little what the end result would look like. Basically we knew the layout with two flights of stairs with a landing in the middle, and had seen pictures of the railing, but no more.

Given our previous experiences we would not have been very surprised if the landing was not at all nicely aligned with middle of the two windows, above and below the landing.

But now that we’ve finally seen how everything about the stairs turned out, we are quite satisfied! Of course, we still haven't had a chance to actually try it out yet, perhaps it’ll feel awkward, too narrow or too steep?

Nah, it’ll be great, except perhaps when trying to get the furniture upstairs through the 180 degree turn :-)

Doors and more doors, indoors

Now all doors are in place, more or less. They are a few variations of the same basic model. I’ll show you.

This, for example is one of two sliding doors. This one leads to the study, and the other one sits between the kitchen and the laundry room.

And this one, with a round opaque window, sits between our bedroom and our bathroom.

Here in this picture of the hall, we can see two different doors at the same time. One regular door, leading to the clothes cabinet , and one (leading to the guest bathroom) with another opaque window, this one having a metal frame with large bolts.

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get a good close up of the metal frame, so you’ll have to take my word that it looks kind of rugged and cool.

If you look closely you’ll see gaps between the doors, and the wall. This is because the door linings have not been put in place yet.

The door leading to the kids’ bathroom upstairs has no less than three round windows. So in general, you can count on round windows leading you to a bathroom.

But, please, there’s exceptions to the rule – so don’t try anything funny outside the round window in the living room.

The kids’ rooms, and our bedroom, also have regular doors without any additional decorations.