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| Agfa Precisa 100, Olympus mju |
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Stavanger house renovation, week 14
Before (bedrooms)
After
Before (hallway to the left, bedrooms straight forward, bathroom to the right)
After
Living room seen from the hallway
Living room seen from the kitchen, terrace to the left
Kitchen and hallway seen from the living room. Staircase (we finally ordered it this week) to the basement living room will be to the left.
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A Portugese reader emailed me and asked: Why to renovate an old house? Wouldn't be more simple to remove the old one and do a new one? Is it because of contraction law?
Yes, it would probably be a lot easier to just start fresh, especially since we ended up doing so much to the house. We did plan to do quite a lot of renovation when we bought the house, but we didn't expect there would be so much extra that needed to be done (the drainage, for example). To demolish the house and build a new one, would still be much more expensive than renovate. Also, we like old houses.
Marion commented: I am wondering if you're planning to share thoughts & plans about insulation/heating/energy consumption - i'd love to hear about this.
We are doing it rather straight forward, I think. The drainage work gave us the perfect opportunity to insulate the basement properly. The ground floor seems to be pretty well insulated already. The whole basement has underfloor heating, and the ground floor will be heated with a wood stove plus electric radiators (panelovn in Norwegian, like this). The bathroom and hallway will have underfloor heating.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
life, week 48
armed and ready for the home stretch of my exam writing
proof reading - in sunshine!
done // can I please have a break now?
always willing to pause for a moment and watch the sunrise
kitchen demolition phase // our house renovation, week 13
too busy to leave kindergarten
way too busy to go home
Friday night and just what I need: a drink + Homeland
pure 9 am bliss // first time sleeping in in months
Pappa! Morfar! Wait for me! (Carrying a teddy in her grandpa's old backpack)
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Week 48: November 24-30
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Stavanger house renovation, week 13
Kitchen demolition phase - we have finally decided how we want it to be (I think)
Hallway (to the left), bedrooms and bathroom - all in the making
Ground floor construction phase
Old kitchen cabinets can be fun to play with - moments later she insisted on being locked in
Basement suite progress
Backyard progress // how to "get rid off" huge rocks and extra soil
Friday, 5 December 2014
things I like lately
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| Agfa Precisa 100, Canon ESO 500N |
- this post by Mariell
- the school piano has been moved into the canteen for teachers to play Christmas carols during lunch break and in the morning when the students arrive
- rediscovering Jose Gonzalez
- the Norwegian word heilag
- two new baby girls in our group of friends within the last week
- introducing Sara to one of my childhood Christmas traditions - Skomakergata
- watching Little Miss Sunshine (one of my favourite movies) with my 10th grade English students in-between midterms
- my friend Charlotte's new portfolio site - she is one of my favourite photographers
- looking forward to Erin's book - her words really resonate with me
- Ingvild's Christmas cards
- near daily photographic updates of my very new little nephew in Tromsø
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Things I don't like lately
- an unexpected hospitalisation of a close family member (luckily it ll turned out well)
- slippery roads
- I have been more busy this autumn than I have probably even been; I feel so selfish by constantly needing all this time for my work
- Christmas gifts - when will I find the time and energy to get them done?
- the stacks of students midterms that need to be graded
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Mallorca on film, part XI
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