Before, during and after
A picture’s worth a thousand words and here’s the barn’s restoration tale. Even though it had four strong, straight walls and an old, but intact roof, it was no small undertaking transforming it from a storage dump into a cosy holiday home.
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- … and here’s the bathroom
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- … here’s the twin …
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- Upstairs, here’s the double bedroom…
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- Somewhere for breakfast or maybe a game of cards
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- … and the other – I just need to go shopping for kitchen equipment
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- … and here’s downstairs, looking one way …
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- It’s finished! Here’s the outside…
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- Last minute finishing touches include adding stair rails.
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- Floor finished, it’s time for the kitchen, which goes in on the hottest day of the year – 36°C
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- The sofas arrive two weeks early – luckily the floor’s down, even if the grouting’s still wet!
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- Outside, the pergola’s going up
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- I’m none to sure about the colour the stairs have been stained, but they’re almost finished
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- Progress at last downstairs: the flagstones start going down
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- Floor’s in and it’s now time for painting
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- Major progress, the bathroom’s got a new window and is now ready for tiling
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- Downstairs is still a mess, but the front door has arrived. It’s a pity it’s only leaning against a wall!
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- Meanwhile, Miro starts building the stairs. See the gap – I almost put my foot through that!
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- This wall’s a tall one.
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- Amir finished, plasterboarding begins. It’s time to start building bedrooms.
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- Outside done, he moves back inside for some grouting.
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- He then moves outside. Once the stone’s cleaned he can start repointing.
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- Upstairs, Amir starts cleaning up the old stone in the bedrooms – it’s a big job, and he’s downstairs to do as well.
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- … then a trench is dug right across. It’s for the house’s sewer pipe to link everything to the mains drainage – if it ever arrives!
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- What a mess! the groundfloor’s stripped back to the earth …
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- … and this is them finished. We now need windows and shutters.
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- … this is the second, upstairs …
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- We needed 2 new windows. This is the first going in, downstairs …
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- Piping for the bathroom’s concreted in. “No, you can’t move it,” says Toni.
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- Meanwhile the floorboards were laid, so there was somewhere to store the tiles. We now have an upstairs!
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- First thing to be changed was the roof. Off it all came and then on it all went.
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- … and this is the plan for upstairs.
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- This is the plan for downstairs…
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- … and there wasn’t really an upstairs. This is the ceiling.
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- Downstairs was full of junk, it was almost impossible to get inside …
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- … and the back’s got even less windows
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- Front – nice walls, but few windows
Also see:
The restoration tale continues with the house – Downstairs and Upstairs, and Outside
Compare the difference with some before & after shots.
For more ‘before’ photos see Outside and the house Downstairs and Upstairs
Or follow our restoration tale.
