Renovation in process (neee, still not into botox yet!)

I'm not sure it's a good idea to show you the pics of what we've done in the hobbit house during these 3 weeks.
The pictures do not reflect so well the amount of work, you see ;-)

Before anything, I wanna thank Markus, Jeremy, Patrick and Esox who more than helped us (anyone around to subscribe for next summer, hm?! :P)

Our days were wonderfully organized (bowing :P)
From about 8.00 am to 3.00pm, the courageous ones went to work on the house, and then the rest of the day, we could enjoyed some real holiday time (beach, etc).
Well, now I think of it, a good thing the weather wasn't that guuuuud! (phewwwwww even!)

Okies, so here are the results of liters of sweat and kilos of swallowed dust...

Each part is still "in process" so it's hard to show you the real beauDy of it... You've to get a *visionary soul* to imagine how it will be one day!


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Here Markus and Martin have installed stairs to go from the first floor to the second one. Stairs are one of the most expensive stuff if you ask a professional to make it. We decided to do it by ourselves when we saw on several professional quotations it costed about 3 000 euros!!!.
Next time, we have to install the handrail and to treat the wood. The stairs will be much darker.
Where you see the plastic piece under the stairs, we will make the toilets. Yup! hehe... We've to use every lil corner in the house if we want to make of it a palace!


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The dining room in process (be visionary, pulllease!). We've cleaned the walls partially to renovate the stones, and same for the chimney. Much much work has been done here.
Next step will be cleaning the stones (which have much paint on them, argg), cleaning the joints and making new ones. Then the ceiling, the floor, the chimney and other stairs to join the first floor.


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The chimney on the first floor. A purrfect example of what we mean by renovating the stones and the walls! We thought we'd call a professional again here because the chimney got many huge cracks that looked dangerous... But hey, what can stop us?! ;-)
We've learnt and repaired the cracks the proper way before renovating!
On the first pic, you see no ceiling, it was open to the roof (the old ceiling had just turned into dust). So again we decided to make by ourself the floor/ceiling (above will be our bedroom). It was very hard, because you've to dig into the stones to install the joists (ou solives, les petites poutres qui soutiennent le plancher).
In this room, there will be the puters, the paintings and bagpipe stuff, and sofa/beds for friends. We've to work on the floor next time, it's turning into dust too...


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Our bedroom! (and on the other side of the door, where the new stairs come, the kids' bedroom). There was no (more) floor, so we built a new one. I jumped on it and I'm still alive, so yeahh, it's great work!
We won't put a beauDiful wooden floor on top of it because we'll put fitted carpet there.
Next step here, the roof isolation and inside covering of it + renovation of the walls.

(yawn)
So much to do!

Anyway, now you know everything!
Sorry for the bad photos, next time we'll have sun and it will look pretty better!:)