I december blir det adventsfika för våra snickare. Mellan 1:a och 2:a advent levereras vårt husskal. Det invändiga arbetet tar sedan runt 20 veckor, så i början av maj kan vi förhoppningsvis flytta in.

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Our house will arrive in time for Christmas. The Carpenters can look forward to some traditional saffronbuns AFTER the roof is on top. Around twenty weeks later we will hopefully get the key to our first house.

Yes! IT IS FOR REAL! We are now two huge steps closer to getting our house done. Last Tuesday the 17th , we made the final order for the house. Also, our permit-to-build application has arrived at the county administration office .

But the decision process is far from over. In order to give us extra time to plan the interior we 've decided to buy a lot of stuff ourself instead of getting it from Myresjöhus. This will also give us a bigger selection to choose from.

This week:
Decide exact where to place the water related items in the bathroom.

Soon:
* Decide for the exact position off the house.
* Detailed planning off our own road, placement and lightning.
* Make arrangements with Telia for the phone wires.

When the permit-to-build has been approved:
* Pay for our piece of land.
* Start planning for our little garden house.

Later:
* For the Kitchen we need to buy dishwasher, refrigerator, freezer, oven, stove top and the kitchen faucet.
* For the master bath and the dressing room we need to buy the whole interior, including the tile.
* The other bathroom will also need to get the whole interior, including the tile.
* The laundry/ second entrance room will also need a washing machine and tumble drier. In that room we also have to plan for some storage and hanging of wet clothes.

* Make a plan over the electric wireing , or actually customize the plan for us, including outlets, indoor and outdoor lighting and media wires. We plan to get some professional help with the lighting in the house.
* Interior design in all the rooms; wallpaper, painting etc.
* Order the tile for the first entrance and the laundry room/second entrance.

We will probably mostly have white painted walls,
maybe some wallpapers. Below is some
sample of the latest kids collection of Sandbergs
that we received in the mail today.

Note to us selfs,
* Prata med rörläggaren INNAN inköp av blandare för dusch i Master Bath
* Glöm inte att instruera snickaren att runda av hörnen på fönsterbrädorna, samt att diskutera höjden på väggen i Master bedroom.

This is the final version of our kitchen... almost. The shelfs to the right of the fan hood will be longer, they will end where the counter top ends. This will give room for an extra light under the shelfs.

We feel good about this kitchen it will be great. To bad we wont get to use it for a long, long time...

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Det tog en stund men nu är äntligen köksritningen färdig, så gott som i alla fall. Vi ser fram emot att få använda det, men det är en lång väntan kvar innan vi får se hur det ser ut i verkligheten.

It is time to make the final order on the house, on Tuesday at 8.15 am we will do it.

The kitchen, the big picture of the exterior and the interior plan is finished. Right now we are working on the two bathrooms, well J is mostly watching the EC in Soccer.

Vi har gett upp iden om att inte lägga så mycket pengar på köket. Trots att boräntan är på väg upp. Det är ett viktigt rum i hjärtat av huset, det måste helt enkelt bli perfekt. Vi har besökt vår kontakt, N, hos köks leverantören för att bestämma de sista detaljerna. N är en bra säljare som smidigt hänger med på vår ideer och när vi gör ändringar.

Köket kommer bli helvitt med svarta detaljer i form av diskbänk och spishäll. Diskbänken är i silgranit.

"Silgranit är ett material som består av 80% pulveriserad granit blandat med 20% akryl. Denna blandning gör det möjligt att framställa diskbänkar i andra former än vad man är van vid från rostfritt stål och i många olika färger. Där utöver ger materialet några andra omedelbara fördelar när det gäller rengöring och skötsel av diskbänken." saxat från Blanco.

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We've now made some final decisions about the kitchen, the counter top will be white and we will go for the first sketch J did. We are still a little bummed that we couldn't have the black counter top, but we found this black sink in silgranit to make up for it.

We haven't seen the final pricetag for our kitchen but we have already giving up our original plan of a cheap kitchen.

The mortgage rate is on the way up in Sweden too, so anyhow this will be an expensive new home for us. I might have to send J back to Cali to work off our mortgage, I would of course have to come with him.

Ett helt vitt kök är kanske inte fel heller...
speciellt eftersom vi inte kunde få en helsvart bänkskiva utan att bli ruinerade.

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Since the solid black countertop is out of the question we have to think about alternatives. How about an all white kitchen.

Inspiration picture from Electrolux Home

On Friday evening we brought our friends J & K to our lot for a little BBQ. We watched the sun go down to make sure our porch will have sun in the evenings, before the placement of the house is final.

Another positive discovery this evening was that we have very nice neighbors, we meet two families. It turns out that our next door neighbors have kids almost the exact ages as ours. It couldn't be more perfect, hopefully they will get along well too.


We got the paperworks for the permit-to-build on Thursday last week, and there is only minor changes to be done before we can send the papers in. Hopefully this will be arranged this week.

The exterior and the placement of the house on the lot is the important parts in the application for a permit-to-build.




We have decided to go for the horizontal wood panel on the house, only a little part on the front side will have plaster. We would have loved to have white plaster all around, but unfortunately it is to expensive. On the picture above we are going to change the placement of the round window so that will be placed in the middle of the bedroom wall (on the inside that is). The door out from bedroom #4 will get a different door with glass all the way down.