Raining, still raining...

Last week the sun was shining, the weather was dry. So the contractor began to lay the roof-tiles.

But now it is raining so hard.... and there is a lot of wind. That means the workmen had to stop. (Help ! We have to move end of february !!!)

Let's hope the weather will be better soon. But the weather-report for this week spells little good.... ;-(

In the meantime, there are a lot of people talking about the ox-eye. We've got a lot of positive comments on it. ;-)

We are getting nervous now. I already packed a lot of little things (decorations and kitchen-ware that we do not need immediately) into boxes, ready to move. We know that we have to move in the house when it is not ready yet, but that will be an adventure. When the windows are be placed and we can warm ourselves, we can work every day for the finishing touch. And afterwoods we will be satisfied to see the result. We can take a bath or a shower at our friends home when the bathroom would not be finished.

OOOH, ... I am looking outside now and it is raining so hard, everything is grey.... ;-((

6th of November 2009

Did I already tell you how fantastic the workers of Stessens firm are ?
They are all excellent craftsman !
Before we have chose a contractor we have seen a few showhouses.
Finally we decided to work with the Stessens firm because of it is still a family business, and we have had a very good contact with Luc Stessens and his architect Mr Mommaerts. Mr. Mommaerts was the first architect who understood that we didn't wanted a house in parsony-style, but a copy of an old mansion. He even brought pictures of old houses to the first meeting we had.
Further w've got hundreds of adresses and phonenumbers from formal clients, so that we were free to contact them and asking if they were satisfied of the firm and their work.
I have phoned 5 of them, and all of them were very, very satisfied.
Untill now, we are the next ones to be an excellent reference for them ! All of the contractors and other workmen are very fine craftsmen !!! You can see they like their jobs and that they wanted to be proud on the result...

The ox-eye.

They placed the ox-eye in the roof !!!

It is a real masterpiece of handcraft.

I am really happy with it.