Corwin's house renovation adventure

[Corwin]

It definitely is a house for little people like the rest of us Will, yeah  Sucks that it removes part of our potential buyers

Edited June 27, 2014 by Corwin

[KoKo5oVaR]

Congrats dude, that's super courageous to you and your family ! On top of the work, I would totally freak out for the hidden vices when buying a house like that !...  You better indeed do your best to bring the electrical circuits up to date if some of your walls are isolated with straw and subject to water infiltrations, also to quickly install a differential circuit breaker in case you don't have one if the circuit is old (but i'm pretty sure you know that already ). Although You would just need to get yourself some solar panels, a small wind turbine and you are all set the german way

[Minos]

That's awesome man

[-HP-]

This is absolutely amazing.

[ESToomere]

Nice house but some of the surfaces look like CS:GO textures though

[Warby]

you sir are my hero

[dkm]

Damn, that's neat! Will be nice to see the progress

Kind of like a dream of mine too, buying cheap and remodeling to coolness. (if only I had the dough...T_T)

[blackdog]

Just skimmed through, the pic of your kid with safety goggles is awesome!

Edited July 4, 2014 by blackdog

[Sprony]

Came across this and immediately thought about this thread:

 

[Sprony]

Update please, thank you!

[-HP-]

+1! I want moar

[Corwin]

Sorry guys, been rather busy with the baby this last month, barely had any time to work on the house. I did make the decision to remove most of the wood panels on the walls, to gain some space/light and because they're a bit crap. To enlarge the entrance to the kitchen (was too low now that I flattened the room) I removed those first and cleared the side of the staircase too, which is way better than it was. I sometimes feel all I have to do is bring back the house to its original state, removing all the layers of crap that each owner seems to have added over the years

 

 

Also I started doing the floor tiles in the kitchen but I had messed up the floor screed a bit and I started at the high point but soon realized it was going to be higher than the intended level of the living room, so I'm not breaking the tiles I just put in to redo it all properly. Oh well, I'll learn to not skip steps next time, it happened because I didn't bother adding wood boards as guides when I was doing the floor so there was one spot that was higher than the rest.

 

I also should hear back from the carpenter to know his final price for redoing the roof, and I got some new electrical switches installed so the electrical system can handle multiple demanding appliances running together without breaking.

 

My family is visiting next week, hopefully while my older kid is busy playing with them I can focus on doing some work on the kitchen to finish the damn thing. Got my brand new dishwasher and fridge waiting to be installed and I'm still forced to wash the dishes in the bathroom sink...

[Corwin]

So I'm wrapping up the kitchen, hopefully will be usable on Sunday evening or Monday morning. I need to hurry because the rebuilding of the roof is going to happen from the 24th on, and I need to break a whole lot of things (including a whole floor to do a mezzanine) way before we start so the carpenter can know what beams he needs and how to cut them.

 

So I've redone the floor correctly this time so it wasn't too high and was fairly flat, done the floor tiles and borders on that, put a new coat of special plaster over the whole room to cover small defects and isolate it a bit, and painted it yesterday. Still needs a few touch-ups on the paint job, and to lazure the wood boards on the side to be a color that matches our kitchen furniture better, and to do the joints between the floor tiles. Then I can cut up the furniture to fit, finish the water connexions and exposed plugs, and we can start using it.

 

 

[Buddy]

So many good textures... ruined.

[General Vivi]

I love this project! I love this project! I... LOVE... THIS... PROJECT...!