The Project!

Over a year ago, Guy and I set out, with Cikka tucked in a sling on mummy’s back, to find us a little flat; one we could call our own.

Nearly two years, many signatures on official papers, frustrating meetings with important bank people, some sleepless nights, and many kilos (on Cikka’s part) later, and here we are seeing our dream evolve and slowly come true.

This is the major project in our lives at the moment…

This is the house as we first saw it. Call us crazy for falling for it but it actually looks much worse at the moment with scaffolding and construction equipment everywhere.

The entrance/sitting room. We are not keeping the chandelier!

Stairs to the future bedrooms

The courtyard. Here it is roofed over with a skylight but that’s coming off soon.

The dining room. Little did we know that this would turn out to be the most problematic room in the whole house!

The living room with doors to the kitchen (downstairs) and study (upstairs). As soon as I saw this room I fell in love with it; I think we both did, and it’s still our favourite room where we intend to spend most of our time… it obviously needed a LOT of work.

The landing upstairs from where you get to…

The main bedroom and…

what was originally a pink bathroom, but which we are turning into a stairwell with a huge glass window overlooking the courtyard. The stairwell will take you to the bathroom and Cikka’s bedroom and further up will take you to the washroom and roof.

This is the view of the courtyard (skylight which we are removing) from Cikka’s ‘bedroom’ which is still to be built along with bathroom and washroom.

This is the cellar or according to who you ask…it’s the wine cellar, it’s the pirate hole, or the future ‘den’. As you can see it's full of potential!

We’re using a lot of imagination to visualize what it’s going to look like, and no matter how many times we go to the house it still seems unrealistic to us that we will ever move in… guess it will take us a few days actually living there for this to sink in! 

We've come far from the idea of a 'small flat' and we do sometimes ask ourselves "did we bite more than we can chew with this one?" but in the end I think, it's our dream and we shouldn't let anything stop us.

To be continued... :o)