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So What Is The Plan?

The apartment is literally a blank page where we can write anything we want. There are some constraints (for example, bearing walls that can’t be removed obviously), but overall the options are infinite. How many bedrooms? Our apartment has 3 potential bedrooms, while Luc and I need only one and we aren’t planning children any time soon, the question was what to make of the other 2 rooms. For this we thought of the things that make up our weekly routines, what do we spend the most time doing? Definitely working and meeting friends & family are the top two. We both lived abroad for a long time and have friends and family spread in different countries and different cities in the Netherlands. So, we want to be able to host anyone coming over to visit and make sure they feel cosy and at home right away. That is why we chose the second most spacious room to be a guest bedroom. The smaller room will become a space where we can work from home, take phone calls, isolate to study

What Does One Week of Progress Look Like?

As you could see from our previous post, the new layout of the house involves quite a bit of demolition and reconstruction, lowering ceilings in some areas and raising them in others, raising the height of the doors, repositioning the electricity sockets and light switches to match the new layout… You get the idea. We found a really professional building company to do the job (Klussenbedrijf Chuckie ) and we’re really happy with the progress so far. Here are some pictures. Built-in closets are gone from the master bedroom Bye bye old bathroom! The ceiling in the hallway will be raised Those tubes in the office room-to-be need to be accessible so we'll build storage around them View of the laundry room-to-be. All door frames are gone.

Week 2 Is Up

With some bank holidays in the middle, when everyone rested, the construction work still progressed. This week the bathroom started to take shape. As we explained in our post about the overall plan , we are going to expand the bathroom until the living room wall and take some space from the office room-to-be. We have one limitation, we need to build around the main water tubes that serve the whole building (those are pretty important). We decided to leave the tubes and water meter reader accessible from the office room-to be, so the bathroom will have a sort of L shape. Back in February we planned our bathroom and WC with Brugman and this is the idea: The key changes, besides the overall room layout, are that we will add a WC in the main bathroom (no more queues! ☺️), we've created a spacious shower cabin that includes a sitting bench on the left side and we'll move the sink of the small WC to the left wall to be in harmony with the door opening. And this is ho

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