We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that there were some very happy puppy faces in everyone’s homes. Ayla got a new cheetah stuffie that she seemed thrilled with and happily pranced around the house with for a few hours. She did chew a tiny hole in him and he was filthy in the […]

Once again it has been very quiet from our side from a while, but mostly that’s only because we have been working so hard on the guesthouse. Friday we took a run to IKEA for the first part of the furniture (we are going back tomorrow for the rest) and the electrician returned with the […]

While planning our guesthouse bathroom, Macky came up with the idea of using a shower grate, rather than a normal drain. A good idea, given that we have three rainwater showerheads in there. He has been meaning to bring it by for weeks now, and when the screed was poured last week he said he […]

After adding the leveling sealant to the floor of the guest house, we weren’t allowed to walk on it for 24 hours. So we moved our focus to the mudroom instead and started hanging drywall over the exposed brick wall which divides the kitchen from this unfinished space. We decided to stick the drywall directly […]

The main reason to Hagebau last night (besides getting grout for the tile) was to pick up paint for the guesthouse. We originally inteded to go with white, but that just ended up being too much. Especially walking into the guest house it felt like the white was overpowering. Since we are not usually fans […]