House meets basement

Is it love at first sight? Not really. My first, spontaneous, thought was Ough?

Today is the first day the house and basement finally met. The basement is both deeper and wider than the house. But symmetry is not all in life. There is more. The basement, without the front, makes the house look HUGE. Well, I have not seen many houses so practically every house is the biggest I've ever seen IRL. A basic issue is the grey base that goes with the house, it is glued on (my father did a very good job) and wont budge. And it's a bit to late in the evening to venture into battle with hammers. The operation will have to wait. But then the house will drop maybe 2-3 cm and it will be better fit.

Damaged goods?

My boyfriend is a great fan of Dr Who, and this is in my opinion also a way of time travel. Since when looking at this picture it seems that nothing has changed since I started renovations in June! I got rid of the panels in the morning room, those that I painted and painted over and over. And the floors, they came out faster from the house than they came in... A lot of work out the drain, but I want to be more than content with my house. I want it to be perfect.


Let's see how that goes...

When things go wrong

I unpacked my house today and examined the damage. Well, the paint in the morning room is a perfect example of me being a lousy painter. It will have to be altered. And the wallpaper in the green room is too bright, and is falling of the walls. Poor quality of it all. I will need to go back to planning again, since this will not do.

Small and big news

It's been a while. But since my last post I moved to a new flat and started a new job. And yesterday I was at my parents and picked up my yellow house so that it can be with me in my new flat where there is plenty of room! It will take a few more days of arranging things in the "big" world until I can start work in my "small" world again. Looking forward to it!

Fourth time a charm?

Gertrude said her morning room looked like a hospital. And I agreed with her and repainted, for the fourth time, the room in a pale shade of yellow. When it was done she invited that nice Miss Nilsson for a cup of tea, letting her sit in one of the matching chairs. I bought the chairs on ebay many years ago, white and dressed in pink. But with a little sanding and vaxing they turned out quite nice.

Three times a charm?

The walls have haunted me. First they were screaming at me, then they were sighing to me. My attempt to salvage the situation turned in to anothr bitter failiure. The colours now clashed with the floors. Why did I not think of this before?! I was close to tears today. The floors were getting ruined, the ceiling was a mess and even the open fireplace was blue. So. Paint it all white. So I went to a proper store today after work and bought a large can of white paint and went to work. It works better with the floor, and there is no harm in white. I will probably think other tomorrow, but I will have to let it rest for a while.

I have continued working on my cupboard-bed. It's been trimmed and vaxed. And fitted with mattresses and pillows stuffed with raw cotton. Raw cotton gived a heavy feel to them. No fluffyness allowed! The clock was factory made, but I did some sawing into it and gave it some new paint. Clocks were usually painted in bright colours and wild patterns. But I did not dare to do anythin much artistic, I am a bit shy when it comes to painting.



And also, I would like to introduce Margit, she will live in The Red Cottage and is dressed in local costume. I have one just like hers.

NO NO NO!

I did alot of work on the salon yesterday and was very pleased with the result. Until I installed all the panels. It reminded me of the finnish flag, very blue and white. If I lived in that house I would not have liked to have a salon that looked like something out of a tourist brochure. If I had only thought about it more. I knew it would be tricky, wallpaper is much easier.

So what to do? I thought about it, and found the best soliution was to cover it all in paint. Brilliant! If you were in a place where you could buy some paint. And my current location is not one of thoose. Sigh. I almost had a fit in one store, since they had the brand I normally use, but strange selection of colours. Tons of glossy lime green instead of plain white? Priorities?! I found the last tube of white in the back of their store. It was part of a set that cost me 150 SEK.

This is the result. Brighter yes, but I wish I had had more paint to fix things up. It just feels so messy and disorderly. I need paint! I cant work in theese conditions! (note to self: dramatization must end here.) And I ruined the wallpaper in the room next to it. My boyfriend will have to forward some paint later on...

Until later, L.

Demolishion?

I present to you... The Yellow House! It was a gift from my parents when I was twelve and it's gone through many different stages. But it's time for a proper make over. So today I stripped the floors, removed wallpaper, the inner walls and removed the stairs. The house is so small and the stairs take up too much space. So gone they went. The spaces where they went is now covered with cardboard.

I broke my knife, but in it's broken state it is a very good tool for removing floorboards.