Other people do maternity yoga...

[oloriel]

... I wonder whether there's any money to be made by promoting Maternity Clay Plastering?

So! Our new stairwell was installed today! And it is a thing of BEAUTY. Jörg and our carpenter spent a week sawing, drilling, assembling, oiling and polishing oak planks into stair-shape over at our carpenter's workshop, and today they brought the almost-finished construction over to our house, where, in only four or so hours and only two attempts... the construction was finished. Now we just have to polish and oil the banister and it'll be perfect.

Against all probability, we had also gotten fairly far with the preparations in the hallway. After we'd feared that we'd have to keep the construction poles that replaced the old rotted wall beams in place yet longer, and thus install the stairwell with a stopgap solution! After all, in the preliminary week that had been planned in for preparations, our carpenter had neither found replacement beams (his collection sported only too short or too hole-y beams), and also lacked the time (and motivation) to come up with other ideas. But when Jörg first showed up at the workshop, our carpenter suddenly remembered that H. (another carpenter whom we also know) didn't currently have a job, so perhaps he'd be happy to help...?
He was, of course. He accepted our ideas at once, spent a whole day finding "new old" beams, and three more days measuring and preparing things. Yesterday he finished putting the puzzle together, and now we have the most beautiful passageway-and-pillar construction between hallway and kitchen and bathroom. If the house falls down, this passageway will remain standing amidst the ruins all shiny and firm - the passageway, and now the stairwell.

What we also got done during the preparational time
- new floor tiles
- remove all the old plasterboard crap from the hallway walls
- prepare said walls with raw clay plaster
- plaster the wall right next to the stairwell with fine clay plaster

What's left to do:
- get new clay plaster so the rest of the walls can be finished
- replace the old cables (the things our predecessors did with electricity, you do not want to know)
- put up a plank construction to protect and hide the fugly cables
- plaster the ceiling

But even in its unfinished state, the hallway looks awesome. AND we no longer have to climb a ladder. (The cats are very excited about that. Although they also appear annoyed about the many changes that happened in the past two weeks. How dare we make everything different?)

Pictorial proof will follow sometime next week or whenever. Hah hah, you thought you'd get away without a picspam? THINK AGAIN.

Comments

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Part of me just went "what do you mean no picspam in this post?!"

I would LOVE to see what your new staircase looks like. I love all your stories about your house so very much Dear! ♥

[nelyo-russandol.livejournal.com]

Where are the pictures that speak more than 1,000 words, even for one as eloquent as you?

And forget maternity yoga, nesting is much more fun, and in your case it sounds exciting!

[independence1776]

Glad to hear the staircase and such have been successfully installed! And I'm looking forward to the picspam. :)

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

For once, I actually DON'T want to get away without a picspam. The alternative I have on offer would be a personal inspection, but I don't know when that would be convenient? :)

[nemoricultrix.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Ich will auch Fotos!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Hey, klappt das also mit OpenID :)
Fotos sind mittlerweile da. Mit viel Gelaber drum herum für extra-viel Spaß!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Picspam is up, but you're still very welome to have a personal look :) Convenient, as usual, is something not on weekends - so I guess when depends largely on your work schedule!

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

Wie wäre es mit Fasching? z.B. am Montag oder Dienstag? :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ist mir beides Recht, solang wir einen großen Bogen um Köln machen ;) Am Rosenmontag ist irgendwo im Ort allerdings Karnevalsumzug, da weiß ich nicht, ob alle Straßen frei sind. Aber wenn du ein Navi hast, würde dir das ja im Zweifelsfall helfen, den Umzug zu umfahren. Also wie du magst!