- A new name for the property...(you'll see it on the new website in the coming weeks)
- A new floor for the front room... half of it anyways...
- A new linen press, well 2 actually...I gave Imre the wrong wardrobe to put shelves in! Now I have the tracks to use in the fancy robe if ever I need to put shelves in it...again! Dohhh...
- A new pair of pelmets for the front room windows,
- New window sills inside for all the 6 new windows,
- A lawfully required fire box/soot removal door up in the chimney in the bathroom
- Cupboard doors in the bathroom, on the cupboard we made out of the old bread oven fire place...using the same lovely doors that came off it.
We are going through the house, room by room doing the long awaited final jobs...all of them now.
I could not do them before as I really had not decided which rooms to use for what purpose, as over here I use different rooms from season to season for different purposes...amazing really!
Bought the curtain rods for the front room a while back and Imre put them up...but I didn't think they suited the final room purpose...soooo now he is making me wooden pelmets. I can use the curtain rods elsewhere with no great drama.
I'll get the sewing lady to make some nice padded or other type of pelmet covering for the pelmets in Feb when I find a nice pattern and suitable material for there.
Quite excited really, as if David and Dylan come over in March/April this year, I could easily have the place completed inside for them!
Here's hoping.
It will be amazing when it's all done, then we can get the outside painted, move the fence, make the new gates and the place will be "pretty well done".
Of course there will be pergolas and the roof thingy on the well and all the other little things for the house part of the outside here which is never ending, but at least the basic things are almost completed.
On the B&B website I'll be using, they advise that you have a quiet garden area for your own private use...which I never would have thought of...hence the need now for the fence to be moved so I can create a nice private area with lattice and pergola etc...
I never thought about it as I don't laze around outside, but as time goes by and a manager comes in, it will be necessary then.
A trip to Prague again is on the books, but not until the room upstairs in the cottage is completed.
I'll need 2 chandeliers for there and a couple for here...
Just can't seem to decorate without them...so I gave in and PRESTO!
Everything came to me on how to complete both buildings...
The same thing happened on a triple storey place I built in Newcastle years back...
I had done the white carpet and crystal chandeliers etc crystal door and tap handles, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms thing on a house, so the next one I built, I thought I'd try modern...but got stuck for months completing a lot of it as I could not put exposed recycled brick, cedar ceilings, a massive soaring brick fireplace and a conversation pit together with modern patterns. I could not even see them when I went looking!
Amazing...
All I could see were crystal chandeliers, velvet curtains and white/cream carpet...
So I did just that!
I used rust coloured crushed velvet and heavily embroidered cream lace curtains which looked stunning against the recycled bricks ..and the golden angels holding crystal wall lights made themselves right at home too.
Slate suited the floors in the entry and conversation pit around the fire place, so I laid parquetry on the kitchen family room floor and cedar doors on the kitchen cupboards, which completed the look.
I was thinking to use those Chinese lantern light things etc but just could not see it when I went looking.
So, armed with that past experience and knowledge, I'm doing the same thing here...just blessed well follow those crystals Mary!!!
Hahaha, if you can't beat them, use them...
So, it is all anticipation now, the final details will be so much fun! Can hardly wait now for winter to be gone so we can get on with things faster.
It is becoming sunny outside now, Sunday1.30 pm...If I finish my blog in time, I'll go out and make a snowman with the "kids"...the cat and dog!
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| The Last Roses of Summer... |
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| My gorgeous youngest grand daughter... |
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| Shovel the path time again... |
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| Amazing frozen lake Tisza from the train... |
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| Imre pulling out the shelf brackets from the wrong robe I had him do...Luckily he only put a few screws in each shelf rail and the shelves themselves were not screwed in yet! |
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| From the family room window into the back door neighbour... |
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| Getting things sorted to start all the window sills inside...finally! |
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| End room, side sunset window! for me to see the sunsets! A much needed sill here too. |
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| The chip-chop man at it again! Window sill going in... |
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| All done...a bit more sanding and a few coats of paint...and there is one more thing to dust! |
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| The front room verandah pelmet ...done! A small paint job, but it will be covered with a nice draped material valance... |
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| Big pelmet over the 2 front room windows and we're all good in here! |
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| Off to the bus stop to head into town... |
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| A neighbour's place. They live in Holland at the moment but are coming to live here soon... |
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| I like to take pics for them so they can see how their little house looks in different weather... |
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| My place in the distance... |
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| A cute little place... |
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| Such a snowy day... |
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| The shop up the road from me about 100 mtrs or so... |
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| At the bus stop and the PO is over the road. People waiting for it to open at 1pm...after closing from 12md to 1pm... |
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| The other shop in the village...at the bus stop... |
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| Still snowing now... |
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| Bus stop from Tiszaigar to Tiszafured and beyond from there... |
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| Doctors surgery, next to the PO and opposite the bus stop...His poor new solar panels are snow holders today! |
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| And off we go to town by nice modern bus... |
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| Smurfs are happy... |
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| ...and colourful against a backdrop of snow... |
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| Waiting at the bus stop on the way home. Peter McLean will remember this one. Have just been into City gas and found a guy who speaks good English. finally I got to see and have explained all various house heating methods. And to my surprise he solved my window condensation problems... |
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| Started snowing again after it had melted from the verandah...it is always magical as it covers everything... |
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| Must tidy up those horse shoes when we move the fence in March/April... |
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| Just too lovely... |
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| Imre left the saw horses out, but they are made from the old copper pipes, so all is good. |
Very happy about learning how the heating should work in different homes needing different heating systems.
Great new products available so now all I have to do is get the ones that will suit here the best.
Now to invent another 2 days of jobs for Imre to do while we wait for the flooring timbers to arrive.
See you all next week and it will be February!
Can you believe that???
I went out an hour ago to make a snowman with the dog and cat for company...but got up to the belly button of the snowman and had to go inside and look up how to build a big one as my poor effort at making a big snowman kept falling apart.
I've never built a snowman before...except in Lower Bavaria at the castle in Neuschwanstein...but they were only 9 inches high, so that does not count I guess!
See you soon,
Take care...be good, stay safe, Happy Australia Day to all OZZIES,
Cheers,
M
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