Those of you who read this post know that there was a small problem with an unfortunate placement of a beam that obstructed the view out of the upper living room windows.
This situation has now been resolved, as you can see!
I’m not entirely sure what the did beside simply removing it, but we’re really happy they did. From the outside, sitting on top of my shoulders, this is what the upper windows now look.
And this is the one taking the picture above ;-)
As you can see, not much remains to be done to the outside – the drain pipes, some exterior lights and the tile edges in the concave corner of the roof, and – of course - some paint.
Below I’ve played around in some painting software trying to show you the color we are planning to give our house, a very faint yellowish tint. I’m sure Angelica would have explained that better, I’m hopeless naming colors.
Let just hope it will be less spotted after the actual painting. :-)
Now all scaffolding have been removed, and as a result the house looks much more finished from the outside.
Have we mentioned that the buyers have now taken the remaining useful pieces of the garage, such as the door? There’s still a pile of old insulation though, that we’ll have to take to the dump some day.
This Friday, we also took some pictures of the edges of the roof which now has nice silver looking sheet metal covering the edges. The roof gutter and drainpipes will be the same material.
Here we can see that the tile edges in the concave corner of the roof looks quite jagged, and unaligned. Dan the Builder ensured us this will be fixed later when it’s not too cold and wet on the roof for the glue used.
Here Angelica inspects the roof balcony from the outside.
(A zillion bonus points for anyone spotting what she just noticed.)
Today was the first time we actually was able to enter the second floor (by ladder)! This is the resulting picture. One can also see where the stairs will enter the second floor hall.
And this is the nice view out of the rightmost window (at least if one disregards the ugly red/yellow signs at the grocery store – lets hope they are bought by a grocery chain with subtler coloring!).
If it the weather had been clearer we would have seen Denmark, and the southernmost part of the island Ven, including the steep hills known as “Backafall” mentioned in the poem “Vid vakten” (1917) by poet Gabriel Jönsson who lived not far from here. The poem was set to music in the 50’s and became a very popular song; “Flicka från Backafall” from a movie based on the story of the poem (a sailor on a long voyage in the Caribbean longs for his girlfriend at home). I think I remember my mom singing it to me when I was little (*snivel*)
So, what was I saying again? Oh, yeah, one will be able to see Ven from here :-)
This Friday afternoon, it was sunny and we took this nice picture from the scaffolding outside, of the sun shining through the windows on the second floor. I think these large southeast-facing windows make all the difference!
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.
When visiting the house, it seemed that the doors was in place. We also saw that the roof windows on the side was in place.
This is what it looked like from the inside.
It was not until we came inside, that we noticed that the rest of the roof windows (including the window balcony) had also been installed.
We also saw that the front door was not in place, only the side light, and some provisory boarding in order to keep the weather out.
It turned out that the wrong door had been delivered, the one we got had the wrong kind of windows in it - a single round one, instead of three squarish ones. And it was supposedly a six week delivery time on the doors. We’ll have to wait and see.
The side door (no picture) is currently what they call a “construction door”; in order not to ruin the real door they put in a temporary one during the construction, so that it does not matter if it gets dented or scratched. I assume our construction door had been in use somewhere else, because it was quite scarred already.
So, this weekend we will not be able to get into the house, because it will be locked up, and we will actually not get the keys until the entire house is finished.
Of course, if we visit during working hours, and ask nicely, Dan the Builder might just let us in to take a few more pictures.
