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Post by ninchursanga on Jan 13, 2012 17:16:42 GMT 2
Mark either needs enough guestrooms or a campsite in the backyard!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jan 13, 2012 17:26:41 GMT 2
I'm sure we'd find enough space somehow.
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Post by WildlyTravelled on Jan 21, 2012 4:42:47 GMT 2
phew! I need a break after all that!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 10, 2012 10:34:37 GMT 2
Update - since the last photos were taken the upstairs bedrooms have been painted but still no flooring is down yet. There has been a big debate about the flooring plus the tiles to go in the bathrooms of each of the four bedrooms on the top floor. What we have done in the past is select a tile from the selection offered by the builder, but we weren't happy with any of them that he could show us for the upstairs. So we searched round and found a supplier with tiles that we liked. We measured up and ordered them and the builder will pick them up, take them to the house and fit them, plus fitting the bathroom 'furniture' which we have also bought separately. This should start in the next week. What has also happened is that I've started fitting a proper kitchen rather than cooking on a camp stove and washing up in a bowl outside with a hosepipe. The kitchen has also been subject to much debate. We approached a couple of local people who came and looked and then gave us a seemingly ridiculous quote for a design we didn't ask for. They were trying to foist on us something we didn't actually want in an arrangement we didn't want either. So they got kicked into touch and we went to the old standby - IKEA. We specified what we wanted and the design using their website and went and ordered it. However, as these things happen, when we did so we found several things weren't available, so we still ended up having to make a few changes. Everything is a compromise. Anyway, ten days later I met the truck at a local petrol station as he couldn't find the house (no-one can unless you are from the nearest village) and directed him to the house where he dropped of a mega load of flatpacks. A note to mention is that IKEA will fit your kitchen, but in Spain it is at a rate of 125 Euro per linear metre - i.e. measure the length of the units in metres and multiply by 125 to get the cost. This can add quite a lot onto the total cost, and being quite familiar with their stuff I thought I'd have a go myself. In the presence of the delivery man I opened the main boxes with the cabinet doors and found several were damaged - so I told him to take them back and get more. Of course, he said, but it'll take another ten days. So what you see in the following photos is minus several cabinet doors and draw fronts. I wanted a bright kitchen as the room is at the rear of the house and tends to be darker than the front - that's why the walls are yellow (they need another coat to mute the brightness a little actually). I wanted a wooden counter top, which I need to keep oiling a few more times to preserve it. I wanted a double sink (the tap I wanted wasn't available though). I need a door on the larder in the corner to finish that off (left side first photo) and where the cooker is, in fact behind it where the off-cut worktop table is I made, will be a wall built to hide the back of the cabinets and a breakfast bar put on top with a couple of stools. The kitchen also needs plenty of homely touches like pictures etc and a dining table and chairs. The fridge needs replacing and a bigger one fitting, that's why it looks too small for the gap available. I'll update more when more happens and I have the internet availability.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 10, 2012 12:27:05 GMT 2
nice! good work.
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Post by Voy on Jul 10, 2012 20:52:34 GMT 2
this is great stuff... keep us posted! ( and I love the kitchen )
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 10, 2012 21:01:53 GMT 2
Love it, love it, love it !!
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Post by Tilly Star on Jul 10, 2012 22:56:33 GMT 2
Love, love, love!
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 10, 2012 23:17:15 GMT 2
Can I come and cook dinner there?
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 11, 2012 11:59:04 GMT 2
Can I come and eat Baz's dinner that he'll cook in your kitchen ? ;D
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Post by pepecura on Jul 11, 2012 12:02:49 GMT 2
I could do the shopping, buy the wines and ice cream.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 11, 2012 12:18:42 GMT 2
Sounds like a plan!
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Post by ninchursanga on Jul 11, 2012 13:41:52 GMT 2
That already looks like a lovely kitchen, the bright colours were a very good idea to make it look brighter. Love it and most of all the white, porcelain sink!
You should put all these posts about the house into a small booklets for your kids, as a memory.
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Post by missalaska on Jul 11, 2012 17:09:12 GMT 2
Just wonderful love the citrus look. I also like the cabinet doors and handles.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 11, 2012 18:41:29 GMT 2
I'll try and take some better photos, but it'll be when I've got better internet access this weekend (hopefully). I'll answer more then, but glad you like it. Baz can always come and cook any time he wants.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 13, 2012 15:45:33 GMT 2
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 13, 2012 16:04:43 GMT 2
At the moment inside the house there is a bit of bedlam and dust everywhere as the builders are in to do the upstairs bathrooms. There will be four bedrooms with 'en-suite' shower and toilets, one for each of the three kids and a spare one that'll be another guest room cum study for me. That'll make seven bedrooms (!) - there's two doubles (one quite large and would fit in another bed) with shower etc on the bottom floor, our bedroom on the middle and four large doubles on the top floor. I suggest if any pissup should occur then I arrive by myself and the rest of the bedrooms are up for grabs.
None of the bathrooms have the cubicle type shower made out of plastic you find in hotels, they will all be built in with built in sinks - more or less a 'wet room' type thing and in a couple of them there will be the square glass blocks used to separate the shower from the sink. The large upstairs bedroom will have a bed on top of the bathroom (a bit like an indoor balcony) leaving the floor space free for lots of overflow sleeping bags. Most of it should be finished by the end of August but there is still a lot of work to do involving upstairs room floors, new staircase and then middle floor flooring in the entrance hall and for want of a better term the living room. We do at present have though a separate TV room with flat screen TV and DVD (that the kids seem to want to spend all day in). That's about it for now. If there were any arrivals when finished then you are free to do anything you want - cook, laze, eat, swim, see the sights, get pissed up and fall down the hill, star gaze (no lights around us and the night sky is very bright) etc etc.
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Post by Voy on Jul 13, 2012 16:17:49 GMT 2
wow! it's amazing how far you have come since the first pics you showed us -- it must seem like ages to you, but still, for living far away from the site I think it's amazing. AND I want to come and laze and swim and eat -- dibs on one of the downstairs bedrooms!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 13, 2012 16:35:27 GMT 2
You can bunk in with me, voy.
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 13, 2012 17:23:15 GMT 2
Wow I never realised that the house is so big !!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 13, 2012 17:40:11 GMT 2
Everything about me is big.
Including my ego.
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Post by Voy on Jul 13, 2012 23:43:35 GMT 2
oooOOoooooo - lucky me.!!!
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Post by missalaska on Jul 15, 2012 8:58:07 GMT 2
We put our oven on a plinth so it was the same height as the cabinets.
Looking forward to seeing other rooms.......
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Post by Tilly Star on Jul 15, 2012 9:06:07 GMT 2
I'll be under the olive tree with Gobs.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 15, 2012 10:00:48 GMT 2
MissA, I'm getting one for the oven to do exactly the same, .
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 15, 2012 10:05:32 GMT 2
Have you any idea what the weather is like in winter? Is there a village restaurant nearby?
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Post by Big Iain on Jul 15, 2012 10:36:19 GMT 2
Delighted to stroll through this whole thread this morning. It's really moving along well. I think that in particular you have got the tone ofthe kitchen absolutely spot-on with those white wood doors. Very country kitchen! Wet room or rooms is a great idea, I had one in our place in France and loved the open plan approach to showering. You need to have draught proof windows for it to work. Are your plans to have it as a holiday complex for yourselves in summer in the short term? (I may have missed this in the thread but you know what I am like with only looking at the pictures in my normal reading material). Looking forward to further updates and, dare I suggest it, the finished article!
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 17, 2012 15:10:00 GMT 2
I'm off to the UK in a couple of days and will comment more then. Bear with me.
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Post by ninchursanga on Jul 17, 2012 21:14:00 GMT 2
The 'wet room' instead of plastic built in showers is a great idea, much more user friendly imho and it looks prettier, too.
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Post by OnlyMark on Jul 21, 2012 18:54:24 GMT 2
Baz, in winter it can get quite cold and does fall below freezing - but it is often sunny days. Rain/water is a bit of a problem as the area is quite short of it, but there is a fair bit, just not really enough. The local village is short of a good restaurant. In fact it's short of any restaurant. There are a couple of bars that will serve food from time to time but nothing special. The nearest reasonable restaurant is about a 15 min drive away.
Iain, all the windows are double glazed and draught proof throughout the house. The house will be used every summer for a couple of months, usually at Easter for a fortnight and probably a couple of more times during the year when I'm there alone. In three or four years it'll be lived in for 1 year whilst my wife is on a sabbatical but it wont be lived in full time until at least all the kids are off to College/University/working, which will be at least six or seven years and maybe not even then if it's not finished or we decide different. There's no set plan, just ideas.
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