Time to finish this series. A nice feeling to actually finish something related to the house - our current to do list is two A3 pages and almost all marked "in progress"!
Where to? Well, the attic of course. Let's go up those stairs. What, those stairs? They don't look famililar!
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| All white! |
So we pulled in a bit of help from back home the week before last to help get things moving a bit. Consequently, the whole stairwell has been plastered and now looks like above. Compared to what it used to...
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| The original version. Don't worry we'll be putting back those wooden mouldings after we do our stripping thing (snigger). |
To be honest, the day this got plastered was one of the days that made us feel "We have a house!" In a long process like this, there are periods during which it can feel it is months off being habitable, but this day was one where we realised how close (and yet how far) it is.
OK so up the reverse set of stairs, with a small pause to admire the plaster.
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| It's so.... white! |
As you'd expect, there are two rooms from the landing, just like on the second floor. Neither have changed massively since the start. The one on the left had wall (news) paper to begin with. It has been stripped bare, radiator and electrics put in and now acts a a store for spare insulation and paint.
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| Look carefully and you can still see the newspaper. |
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| Also here in the original version. If you look very carefully.. |
The one on the right is the bigger room. The only change here is radiator, electrics and stacks of materials. It is our informal workshop and store.
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| At-tic-ilier |
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| Original version. You probably think we've made it worse! |
So that's it. End of house. A disappointing ending to something that promised so much (a bit like season 4 episode 6 of Black Mirror).
Wrong! Like Hitchcock's Vertigo, after that long staircase of twists, there's one more twist at the end. And for this one we have to look up.
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| A hole! |
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| A HOLE! |
That hole in the ceiling leads to the attic on top of the attic. It's actually a big space, a good 20m2 more. The only problem is the celing is a bit low, a tad over 2m in the centre.
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| Sorry, I couldn't be bothered to clime up. So this is what there is up there. |
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| Actually, this is what we found up there. Big old doors. But that was months back. |
So we'll have to decide what to do with this. It's quite common in Belgian houses to find the roof of the big room downstairs opened up to integrate this second attic into the first using a kind of duplex effect. If you're confused, have a look at this and you'll hopefully get what I mean.
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| This is what I mean, kind of. But rotated 90 degrees and higher. But you get the idea. (note: not our photo or our house, its from caprofunellez.com). |
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OK, now we really are at the end. Honestly. Except for the garden. Maybe.
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