Time to fix the driveway.

Hello all readers.

Now have we lived in the house for 2,5 months and it feels great to have all the space and the country side when you open the door.

As you might have noticed on the previus pictures is it pretty hard to enter the car-port or the garage. With some luck could I get the contractors back again for this week so they could fix the entrance and some other minor work in the garden.

Here are some pictures of what they manage to do in 1,5 hourse. I must say that they are extremly fast.
I will make more updates when they are done with all the work.

Eminent Domain get´s a expansion!

Hello all I just want to write about the coming expansion to Eminent Domain. This expansion only have one day left on Kick Starter but it sound very promising and I love Eminent Domain, even if my wife always beets me at it.






Here is a short summery of the expansion:

"Escalation is the first big expansion for Eminent Domain. In Escalation, you get: To play with up to 5 players. Different functions for the different ship models from Eminent Domain. New technologies and new ways to obtain technology. Scenarios that breathe new life into Eminent Domain with variable starting positions. Some direct conflict is introduced through 3 of the new tech cards.

Impressive 15mm painting skills!

Found some impresive painting for FOW vehicles. I get realy exited to paint again and this time use Air brush. I think this thread will help me allot.

AK-interactive techniques: A Small Project....: Hello friends, Hola amigos, A new chapter begins for me as I join the staff at AK Interactive and begin work with the company.  Working...

House build complete!

Hello all!

Finally comes the day when we have the final inspection of the house! As you might understood have the last month been very hectic and allot of ups and down. I will not get in to detail of all the problems and late arrival of material. But we got the house done but it was in the famous last hour. Except that the sink in both bathrooms where late and the micro oven was wrong and some other minor flaws.

Now have we been living there for three weeks and we are getting some order of all the stuff. But the garage is still a mayhem and we have some other rooms where it could be more order. But it will come in time, we have to live and not work our self to death at the same time. We have also had our first feast in the house and it worked well. We realise that we can easily have 20 people seated at one table with it getting to crowded. So one aim of the design seams to work.

So here is what you all have been waiting on the pictures of the house with some furniture and lights.
Enjoy!

P.S. There will come a house moving party soon. So keep an look out at the book of faces.

House build week 3

It is happening allot on build site now. The fire place is in place and it looks good. Allot if the electrical connection is done! So we fell that we might have a home to move in to next weekend. But there is still allot to do.

2013 week 2 house update

So many many many weeks have past since my last post about the house. Shame on me!

But I am back writing again and it is a new glorious year a head off us. I have no intentions to build on house the hole year, I want to be finished soon because we are getting fatigued of the build. So I am very glad to write that the finial inspection of the build is book in the final weeks of January and hopefully can we move in after that if every thing proceeds as planed.

You how have keep track of the calendar understand that it is only a few weeks left until the house should be finished! But there have been good progress at the site and the contractors have been working even on the Sunday before Christmas eve.

All the flooring are done on the upper floor and the it is only the kitchen and a small area on the lower floor that is not done because of lack of material. We have chosen a standard oak parquet for the most of  the house it will complement the white walls and give a nice natural look. But in the entrance hall and the kitchen have chosen a more fresh linoleum interlocking tiles in lime green and anthracite grey ordered in a chess board pattern. It will give allot of colour to the house and act as an area divider in the otherwise very open space.

All the floor boards for the lower floor

The tilers have also been working. The upper and lower floor bathroom is done and it looks really good. We are very pleased with the choice of tiles, it make the bathroom seam bigger. Also our contractor have done a very good job with the tiling. No are we only waiting on the furniture and taps to have them done. It will be nice to have two bathrooms and two showers in the morning.

As the tilers have been working with the walls in the bathroom have the painters been plastering and painting all the walls and sealing. So nearly all the painting is done and it looks good! We are very happy that we had contractors for this work because of the shear amount of work they have put in to this house is immense. Because we have gypsum sealing is there allot more work and all the window embrasure are with out window trim. And it is hard to beat a professional painter with it comes to work speed and end result.

It not that long until we can move in and et feels like to two reaming weeks will be very hectic. The carpenters needs to do all the final touches and build a small wall towards the staircase. This wall needs to be plastered and painted. The electrical needs to make all the final wiring and install allot of lights. The kitchen needs to be mounted in place...... you understand the list is long and it is only 9 work days left.

On top off this do need to clean the house before we move in and pack all the stuff in the apartment. But it is only a few weeks so I thing we can handle it with some help from family and friends. I do not know when I will have time to write again, it might be after we moved in?

Week 48 house update

Hello all.

Now has there been a big gap between the posts so I thought it is time for a update. There have been good progress at the build site. The biggest visible change from out side is that the scaffolding is removed and we can fully appreciated the house. It is a BIG house when we look at it.

 But I think it is because there are no trees or other gardening around it. It is stand like a big block in the middle of a gravel pit. We have our work planed for the coming years. But I think it will be great when it is done, how fun would it be if every thing was done and ready when you moved in. Then is there no need to by timber or tools.

They have also done allot of work inside of the house. All the inside electrical wiring is completed. All the internal non weight carrying walls are up and insulated and covered with gypsum. All windows are caulked so the house is sealed from wind draft. The roof insulation is on place so the house have received a cap that is needs. All this work is very time consuming and fiddly and the result is not that visible all the time. But this is how it looks now inside.

So there is good progress on the house build even if the blog i very quiet. We are closing in on the finalization of the build and we fell that it will be a hectic time around Christmas and the beginning of next year. If we could control the contractors would we not be that worried but they are very unpredictable and do not always follow a time table. But I guess that how the build business is like and we only have to coup with the situation. I do not worry that it will be late, but as you how know us we like to plan a head and have some space in the time plan.

Until next time, have a nice Christmas warm up with all the dinners etc.