Before & After
In Progress: Bedroom
Since the flat was so old, a lot of the electricity had to be redone. Here is a pic of that happening:
It was very messy.
Before: Bedroom
What is now our bedroom was used by my mum as a storage place for all her unneeded stuff. This is what it looked like:
Hey, at least this one had a hardwood floor.
Now: Closet
Then my grandpa made and put up these lovlies:
Can you believe my granddad did this at 75?
In Progress: Closet
My granddad helped a lot in this room. He took out the sink and the oven, put in the floor boards, which he had painted white himself. Pretty much the only thing the boy and I did in this room, was painting one wall in a juicy green.
Before: Closet
This is what our walk-in-closet looked before:
And that is after we hade taken out most of the old furniture.
Wall decoration
Our flat still leaves much room for improvement in terms of decoration, however, there is one piece of art that we are quite proud of: the oil painting in our living room. The wall had been left blank for a while after we moved in, and we knew we had to do something in terms [...]
Now: Living Room
In order to transform the old bedroom into a preliminary living room we got ourselves a tiny, cheapo TV, and stole Richard’s mum’s old couch, which she didn’t need anymore. Then we added a Lack bookcase from Ikea and a cool retro lamp. Together with a low coffee table that we got on clearance, it [...]
In Progress: Bedroom to Living Room
In the old bedroom, after we had taken out all the furniture (that huge closet was a bastard to get out, let me tell you!), four more walls of awful, old, sticky wallpaper awaited us.
Once this was removed too, we started painting one wall in a warm chocolate brown. The rest were kept minimalistically white. [...]
Before: Bedroom
On the other side of the kitchen, there was the former bedroom. It was dominated by the bed and the big, boxy, mahogany closet. Someone must have really loved dark brown.
You can also see the throughway to the bathroom in this pic. The bathroom is still the same horrible, dark 70ies room that it is [...]
Now: Kitchen and Dining Room
This is what our kitchen/dining room looks like right now:
We changed the tiles of the kitchen backsplash, and added light fixtures. The dining table was made by my granddad from walnut wood. We got the eight chairs from a local furniture shop on sale. The kitchen island plus the bar stools came from that same [...]
