It has been pretty quiet for a while from us and if you read my last post about playing with chalk you know why. It’s now official – Stefan is changing jobs and will have three months of vacation, starting this week. This means we will finally have time to start on the guest house. […]

There was a high chance of rain in the forecast today so we decided to try out Jake’s chairs finally and use it as a sort of test project. We have big plans to construct the bedroom furniture in our guest house so we wanted to start with something not so huge to see if […]

When we bought the house, there was only one bathroom indoors. We also have an outhouse in the courtyard but how practical is it to run outside in the middle of winter to do your business? Certainly better than nothing but still not a pleasant thought. The bathroom downstairs was added in the early 1980’s […]

We haven’t been posting much lately because we just haven’t been doing much around the house. Stefan had been pretty burnt out from work so we haven’t even been working on any little projects around the house. But we’re going to make up for it now. Stefan is starting 3 months of vacation (God willing) […]

I’m not sure I would be totally comfortable with this myself but it is an interesting concept. Geenee is a website for home-owners who are interested to trade houses for a few days, weeks or longer with someone else so that they can experience a more local feeling in the places they visit. After launching […]