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Finally, we have the building permit in our hands! We submitted the application last summer, and it said that the waiting time for a decision was about 10 weeks. It took 40 weeks ...
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Now it was all over for us! Today we have changed our bathroom window. A small old window has become a large modern one. Now we have a fantastic view from the bathroom and out over the water.
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Today we have changed the three small windows facing the lake, on the lower deck. It was a bit more tricky, as it is quite narrow ... But we were lucky too. Firstly, we had shelter, as the wind was blowing from the other side. And the windows were the right size this time, so we didn't have to saw.
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Today we have been busy replacing our kitchen window with a new one. All the windows in the houseboat will be replaced. We want triple-glazed windows everywhere and in several places there will be much larger windows than today. We have also bought windows where the wood is protected by aluminium, so that they are more resistant to the weather.
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Now it's a houseboat for us, and here we try to mix a bit of a rustic boat feel with modern furnishings in black and silver. It's a sharp contrast to how we decorated our previous apartment. You may remember that we decorated in a turn-of-the-century style: antique furniture and lots of stucco.
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Now it's time for new windows! We are going to change all the windows in the houseboat. The old windows are single or double glazed. In addition, the frames are worn and ugly. On the lower deck there are not even real windows. Someone has just bought sheets of glass and put them in frames. In addition to being ugly, this means that not a single window on the lower deck can be opened ... So it's time for a window replacement operation!
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Gradually, it feels like we are getting more and more finished with what we intended to do in the houseboat during the autumn. This weekend we finished painting the lower deck, and it's really nice to be done with that.
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Just when you start to relax, there's a setback... When Peter went into the boiler room today, he discovered water running down the wall. Panic! He looked along all the pipes and tore down the ceiling. No pipes were broken. Instead, it seems that large amounts of rainwater have leaked in through the kitchen window and run down the walls. Not good!
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It's Sunday and we're building and building. The irony is that when you renovate to make it look nice, it gets so terribly messy in the meantime. Right now we have stuff just everywhere. But I'm sure it will be fine in the end!
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Now it's starting to look like something! Yesterday a plumber, two electricians, a carpenter (Peter) and a hobby painter (moi) worked in this little boiler room. Well, not all at the same time of course... What do you think of the result?
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