Deep cleaning old wooden floors
After spending a few days in our new apartment (earlier this week), we realized one glaring problem: the beautiful wooden floors are hideously dirty It’s not that they look dirty, because as you may have noticed in the photos they are quite pretty and light (I’m guessing pine). But after walking around on the floors […]
A massive cleanup effort in the barn
As part of the official clean out the farm project which ruled our lives recently, we decided to go ahead and get some order in the barn…and especially the workshop. I don’t have too many before photos of what our barn looked like before we started giving stuff away on Freecycle and throwing out the […]
A first look at our new place
Yesterday we took possession of our new apartment and moved our “start up” furniture and boxes in. It involved renting a massive cargo van with 14 cubic meters of space, which we filled with our bed (out of our guest house since we’re trashing out old mattress from our room which is well over 10 […]
Underrated family travel destinations
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Green with envy about freshly painted doors
We have been hot and heavy into doing some small renovations and clearing stuff out of the farm these days. We want everything to be as nice and shiny as possible before we move out — and are still hoping that we will get a good offer on the house in the next 3 weeks. […]