Once again I'm slacking. This past weekend we had a pretty big party here with a bunch of friends and family...it was a lot of work but thankfully also was fun - and will probably be the last of them for a long while. Yeah, we've said that before, right? But now I...
Soooo, I mentioned that some progress had been made in the mud room recently...and that is definitely the case. When Stefan's parents were here, the guys hung up our cabinets from our first apartment here in Germany that we have lugged around from place to place for...
We made an enormous amount of progress today - more than we ever could have imagined!Macky sent a contractor to us this morning which wrote about earlier...we were a bit concerned because Macky told us during one of our last conversations that it's not possible for...
This morning we had made plans to sleep in a bit to recover from all the back breaking labor yesterday. However, at 8AM sharp the phone rang and it was Macky.He apologized profusely for not calling and not being there as promised and gave a few more details regarding...
On our quest for tasks to tackle before Macky returns, we continued with demolition today. Our revised plans now include a built-in closet - however, this one is a bit different. The built-in closet will be created by taking in a "dead space" between the guest house...
We have talked about Jake's Chair quite a few times on this blog, but so far there has been too much going on around here to take the time to actually build one. Now that construction of the guest house has kind of been on hold for the past two weeks we have finally...
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 feeling...
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 drywall we called in the...
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....
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...
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