Building
Furniture 1
With Marit’s 2 and my 4 children, each with partners, and 2 grand-children, we sometimes need an extra table. This is my solution.
In 2020 I bought a house that needed a lot of work. In this section a few examples of what I did with it.​
Furniture 2
The heating installation was a quite ugly obstacle in the new room. With an old panel door and some oak left-overs, it was covered neatly.
1: Upstairs
The space above the stairs is used to create a slanted wall. The floor has the same m2, but the ceiling gained 2 m2. The room looks a lot bigger.
Below the sink, next to water supply and drainage, also two drawers and a tilting compartiment will fit into the triangluar space.
The mirror is on the slanted wall. I designed it vertically, but discovered that it worked fine like this. Fits the space so much better.
The space above the stairs is used to create a slanted wall. The floor has the same m2, but the ceiling gained 2 m2. The room looks a lot bigger.
Upstairs had three small bedrooms and a large hallway, all with low ceilings and metal stud dry walls. Now it has a large living room and a bed-/bathroom, with high ceilings.
2: The barn
To keep out water, with high garden soil on the other side of the wooden fence, I layed two layers of bricks and egalised the tiles around the poles with cement.
In the back of the barn, a multipurpose sink is placed in an oak work top.
The first thing needed was a shed to work in. I covered 7 x 2 meter part of the pathway and closed it with oak doors, in an old fashioned barn style.
3: The attic
The attic was12 m long and 2 m high. Practical for storage, not for anything else. From the first and last two meters, I made vides.
The attic got a floor and light and a steep loft ladder was removed. We partly re-used former bedrooms floors, but the first half - that could be used to place a bed, got a nicer, old-style floor.
Old bookcases were fitted into the triangle space, to store archives.
The attic was12 m long and 2 m high. Practical for storage, not for anything else. From the first and last two meters, I made vides.
Inside, we started with the attic, that we partly sacrificed in favor of 4.7 meter high open spaces front and back, with robust beams in sight.
4: The office
Exhibition panels showed my professional work from a certain era. I put them two-sided in an oak frame to create a sliding door.
The previous owners had a certain style. Let’s say there was work to be done.
After the plastic windowsills were transformed to oak ones, the office furniture - and the &^%$#@!-wiring could go in.
Exhibition panels showed my professional work from a certain era. I put them two-sided in an oak frame to create a sliding door.
The former living room had white tiles with sparkles, plastic windowsills and a ceiling that didn’t suit the house... That has changed quite a lot.
5: The garden chamber - photographs will follow... some day ;-)
6: The veranda
7: The guest house
8: The garden
3: Bedroom and bathroom @ 2nd floor
The space above the stairs is used to create a slanted wall. The floor has the same m2, but the ceiling gained 2 m2. The room looks a lot bigger.
Below the sink, next to water supply and drainage, also two drawers and a tilting compartiment fit into the triangluar space.
The mirror is on the slanted wall. I designed it vertically, but discovered that it worked fine like this. Fits the space so much better.