Stuff around the home

Knocking down walls!

Well, it's been a crazily-busy holiday - the latest task being renovation in the kitchen/living room! Here's some photo's for Doro to see the changes that we've made :-)

This first one shows what's left of the wall after Franzie and I pulled down the horse-hair plasterboard.




Stage 1 looking from the other end of the livingroom.




Most of the studs have been removed, with a special prop to support the weight before the beam is inserted.




Here you can see the boys (Andrew and Pete Kube) at work after putting the beam in place.




After oiling the floor, we couldn't move back in for 3 days! (You can see Claudia, Franzie's friend from Germany coming through the door :-) )




After moving back in to the kitchen. This photo shows the whole opening through to the living room, as well as the new door down to the hallway (which we obtained from Elaine and John across the road!). You can also see where the fridge is now on the very right-hand edge of the picture.



There are more photos on our flickr site.

If you get a chance, let us know what you think by commenting below!

posted by Michael @ 7:31 PM