Posts in ‘Renovation’

Yesterday, the kitchen furniture was delivered. The store where we bought it from sent 3 guys with it to install all of that, which has been done in one day.

There are still quite some spots that need to be finished up (painted, or tiled), but I must say, It’s looking pretty amazing already. Let’s move on to the pictures, shall we?

Here’s a first view. On the left is the fridge and the freezer (the fridge is on top), neatly built in. Then, the dishwasher (woohoo), and some other cupboards.

The sink is also on that side of the kitchen now, so you can work with daylight, rather than face a wall. (more…)

Some progress has been made since last time, so here’s another update. (And mostly because Brittany really wants new pics.)

Here goes.

Here the ceiling is in progress.

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I figured it’s time for another update, as much has been done since we finished digging all that clay. Since then, pipes for water and cables for electricity have been put in place, concrete has been poured, walls have been placed, stabilizer has been poured, etc.

Here, a bunch of pipes for the used water have been put in place, and covered by sand again. There are so many of them because the room you see is going to be both the bathroom and the kitchen; a wall to separate them again has yet to be built.

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As I mentioned in part 2, there was no concrete in the floor, but instead, a whole lot of sand. Over the last weekend, we’ve been working on digging that out. (Where we = my mother, my sister, and I). Unfortunately, it wasn’t just sand; it was merely a thin layer of sand on top of a thick layer of clay.

Onto some photos of that progress after the break.

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I decided to split this whole mess in parts, as otherwise, we’d eventually have so many photos on one page that it’d take too long to load.

Day 2 of the renovation, August 4th.

Today, the guy that’s doing all this let us know that there’s actually no concrete under the kitchen and bathroom. The two rooms where built separately, after the rest of the house was built, and apparently, they though it was al right to just build it on the ground, with no support under there. We’re lucky we didn’t have any water problems in there earlier, actually; or worse, the ground could’ve moved away due to ground water – which could’ve caused walls to break etc.

This new discovery means that everything will take longer than expected. We’ve got a whole lot of sand to get out there, so we can add a good layer of concrete before we go on with building in the new kitchen stuff. There’s still some work left until we get there though.

Today the wall between the kitchen and the bathroom was broken down, among other things. The bad-ass part is that this wooden wall was mostly cut down with a chainsaw.

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We’ve just started renovating the kitchen and bathroom in our house here. (We meaning my mother, my sister and I). I decided to take photos frequently so I can look back at the progress. Should be fun.

On a side note: the photos weren’t taken for the purpose of great photography, but rather for documenting.

Firstly, I took a couple of shots before anything was done:

Kitchen:

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