Thrilling....

We'll be pressed for time.... it's frosty weather and that means that the contractor will not work any more.... AND WE HAVE TO MOVE END OF FEBRUARY !!!

The windows would be placed on 19th of January, than they can poor the second concrete-floor (after the placement of the underfoor heating), and than they can plaster the walls.

The bleu stone for the stairs, the electricity and water-pipes (already done the preparations), plastering of the ceilings, placing the elevator : all those things must still be performed...

Than we have to do some work ourselves : the finishing of the electricity, the floors in bleustone, placing the kitchen on the groundfloor, making and placing the kitchen of the first floor, the floors in old oak parquet, placing the inside doors, making the cabinets in the entrance hall and laundry rooms, a second and third isolation of the attick, the finishing of the bathrooms and showers, the finishing of the toilets, the garden on the back side, the parking place on the frontside .... all work for us. In seven or eight weeks ????

I know wherefore Eddy is so nervous.

Still raining.....

Yesterday, wednesday was our day off. Tabitha is still studying in Oxford and Jarno had to learn for his examinations. So Eddy and I decided to go shopping for the house.

We found the toilets (3 pieces) in reduction at -30 % !!! It was a mere fluke that we went to that store... This way we are going to have a marvellous house at a small budget.

We bought the kitchen for the appartement on the ground floor, already several months ago on a public sale. This kitchen is brandnew, only used as a showroom kitchen. All the kitchen machines were included : refrigerator, oven, cooking-range, washing-machine, lights and spots, etc... all new, never used. For a fraction of the original price. Sure, we had to take a whole day to go to Holland and we had to break-out the kitchen. It was a lot of work for Eddy and me, but we have done it and now we have a wonderfull kitchen at mini-price !

The kitchen on the second floor, is going to be made in our own workhouses as we mentioned before. And because we have to do so much work ourselves it will be a tense struggle if the house will be "habitable" the 1th of March ....