A Bit of progress!!

After this morning’s renovation depression it seems we are making a bit of headway. A trip to Hornbach and then on to Hagebau gave us enough supplies to continue with some of our projects not dependent on Macky and after just a few more hours of work we are...

Complete Standstill

This morning’s blog post is therapeutic for us, it’s time to moan and groan about the standstill we have experienced for the past two weeks. After discovering that we are just not strong enough and don’t have enough hands to put up the ceiling...

Let there be light

Aside from getting our behinds kicked by the ceiling drywall we had a pretty successful day regarding the guest house. This morning we took a trip to Conrad, think home depot for all things electronic, to pick up most of the things we need for lighting and wiring....

That’s it, we’re calling in the troops

After spending nearly 2 hours mounting a small piece of dry wall to the ceiling and then nearly knocking ourselves out when we attempted to mount a full sized piece of drywall we are calling in the troops. We have realized, that just the two of us can not mount the...

A built in closet…Are you serious?

Yesterday we went out to the stables and reevaluated our floor plan situation. We don’t have a lot of space to work with, with great aspirations and we where beginning to wonder how it would all flow.Next to the stables there is an empty area still covered by...

Three trips to Hagebau

It’s now 1.40pm and already we have enjoyed three trips to Hagebau today. Thank God the place is really close by. The first trip was expected, we needed more clips to mount the roof beams. That process went really quickly for the first two beams. But as it...