The renovation (Flashback)

Before me and Toine left to the Netherlands, we spent two weeks renovating our living room and changing floor in the hallway. It was hard work, but the result was very rewarding.

• Start with tearing down old wallpaper, only to figure out that the last layer is rock solid stuck...
• Go to Jula to by a wallpaper steamer
• Steam away remaining wallpaper
• Fill up nail holes and other visible damages on the walls
• Put up protective wallpaper in corners and over cracks
• Plaster all 4 walls (phew this must be the hardest part!)
• Grind down all uneven parts after the plastering (ouch this was way harder!)
• Fill up small uneven parts and then grind the new areas when dry (phew at least the hardest part is done now)
• Time to paint the ceiling. We do it two times, and also the window frames
• Three of the walls will be painted three times with antique white, and then the fourth wall gets three layers of a darker sort of Kahlua colored paint
• Last step, putting down the floor! Toine did most of this hehe
  

Living room and hallway "before".


Taking down wallpaper! Toine is working hard, but I was doing my share of the work as well!


Walls are now painted, and the floor is starting to form.


This is what the new living room and hallway looks like. Some new TV furniture as well, which will soon hold a nice flat-screen TV.