Diary of a mad mother... The house. Part 2

danielaonsteem (33)in #new • 8 years ago

It has been almost three years now since we started our journey of remodeling my boyfriend´s parents house. At the end of the year 2011 Jan´s dad has become seriously ill after he had a stroke. He was no longer able to walk, talk or even use a toilet. Jan´s mom tried her very best to take care of the love of her life, but the house and the huge garden was just too much for her. So by June 2013 she had decided to sell the house. This is when my dream of having my own house started to turn into reality...

Jan´s parents took very good care of their house and the garden, it has always been nicely organized, clean and tidy but my dream house was just too different. Even though I always wanted to live in the city and if possible a big cosmopolitan city, my first summer here I completely fell in love with the town, its people and the small town/ countryside lifestyle. I knew I was going to turn this old German cottage into modern dwelling with old time feel.

So we started. And we got really lucky, since Jan´s ex wife´s partner has a construction company we knew our house was in good hands...

And from this

we went to this

... and also this

Since our house and the garden lies mostly on the wetland we used quite new technology (at least here at the end of the world) where plastic tunnels run approximately 1 m below our flooring all over the whole width and the length of the house.

Now there is an air flowing under our house all the time and therefore the moisture does not get the chance to stay inside. (Well, I am sure our builder would explain it better for you, but this is briefly what it is for).

But do not worry. I won´t bother with technicalities and boring pictures. And for now I will try to keep all the writing to a minimum.