This winter has been a warm one. In our corner of the world that means that temperature has hovered only at around freezing, not below like it usually does. Therefore we´ve only been able to go to our summer home twice this year, hiking on ice.
We have a major project at hand there, we´re about to renovate and remodel the whole cabin inside and out. It was built in the sixties, and nothing done to it since (except changed curtains =).
So the two times we´ve been able to spend a weekend there with my husband this winter, we´ve done our best to get things started.
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| This has been a rare treat during the past months, a sunny day. |
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| We have no running water there, so we need to saw a hole in the ice to get water to sauna and wash up. Drinking water we bring in canisters of course. Talk about getting close to nature! |
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| The project. This phase is always the worst, when you´ve torn out the old and not yet put anything new back in. It does need to get worse before it can get any better. |
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| We´re turning the old kitchen into a bedroom. In the floor there was a small hatch leading to a cool concrete-covered hole in the ground, which used to serve as a "refrigerator" before electricity was brought to this small island. |
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| The door will be removed and sealed, and the double-windows taken out completely. This time it was time to add insulation to the floor and cover it with another layer of plywood. Hopefully we´ll find use to the old door. It´s always valuable to preserve something from the old. |
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| Accurate account on measures on the wall... |
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| Luckily "these tools were made for working, and that´s just what they do"! |
We´re hoping to get the living room and bedrooms done by warm summer days, so we can all fit in to enjoy ourselves as a family! Thumbs up!
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