This was my first message about the new house (facebook)

Building a house in Belgium. 1.


woensdag 4 februari 2009 om 20:46



Today we have had our information day about "environmental friendly" houses. Maybe our friends and family in the USA doesn't know, but our gouvernement find it very important to consider the environement. So do we...It is now about three years ago, that we decided to build a new house, next to our antiqueshop. It is in the adjacent village. Now we live still in Zwijndrecht, but the shop is in Melsele.We already sold the half of our house in Zwijndrecht. It sounds silly, but the half of the big, big house was our first antique shop. So we sold the shop-part and there is a very good restaurant now ! Now we only have to sell the house. Let's hope we soon will find a buyer !Finding the architect who understand what kind of style for the house, we desired was quite an adventure. The most popular house-style to build here in Belgium is the "parsonage-style". We like those houses, but it is not what we would build. Our dream (most of all mine, to be honnest) was an old looking European mansion.Puzzling the rooms, the stairway, the personal elevator (we are not getting younger, thinking on the future..), it took some time...But soon the contractor is going to start our dream...






This is the new style of an old European mansion, my dreamhouse. Ours will be in this style, but a lot smaller and not in such a lovely parc !