day 91 - The inside

Insidan av huset är nu färdigt för våra personliga detaljer. Inom de närmaste veckorna kommer kakel o klinkers, tapeter på några ställen, samt kök och badrumsinredning. Här följer en liten rundvisning.

HÄR finns planlösningen om någon vill se hur rummen hänger ihop.

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The house is starting to look like a HOME. The inside has now walls with paint on them. There will soon be some wallpaper added to a few of the walls.

We are so far happy with our choice of white. Nordsjövit.

Here follows a tour of our house, the plain version. In a few weeks there will be more personal touches added.

HALL

Entrance

TVÄTTSTUGA
Mudroom/laundryroom

MEDIA CENTRAL
Media center
(This is J's corner, he is in charge of the technical stuff in here)

FRÅN KÖKET MOT VARDAGSRUM
From the kitchen facing the livingroom

FRÅN VARDAGSRUMMET MOT KÖKET o HALLEN
From the livingroom facing the kitchen and the entrance

SOVRUM
Masterbedroom

KLÄDKAMMARE
Dressingroom

TOALETT/ DUSCHRUM
Master bath

LEKRUM
Playroom

BIBLIOTEK
Library

SOVRUM 1
Bedroom 1

SOVRUM 2
Bedroom 2

day 57

Now the house is filled with workers! Both the electricians and the carpenters is there.

Soon it is time for the interior as walls and floor. The tile in the bathrooms we have already decided. Now we are thinking about the colors on the walls.


Basen kommer vara vit. I sovrummen vill vi dock ha lite varmare, mysigare färger. Den brunaste färgen ovan funderar vi på att ha på en fondvägg i barnens sovrum och den allra ljusaste på de övriga tre. Det pricka tyget är tygprover på påslakan som skulle passa bra till.

day 42 - colors

We are thinking about colors for the moment!

And it is not easy and especially since J has a color vision defect.

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De "offentliga" rummen i huset kommer ha vitmålade väggar. I sovrummen letar vi dock efter lite varmare färger för att det ska bli lite mysigare. I dag har vi provmålat med de bruna och gröna färgerna nedan. de brun/beiga färgerna är behagliga men de gröna behöver vi nog fundera mer över.

Den vita färger är inte heller helt lätt, här finns det ju många olika nyanser att välja mellan. Vilken kommer passa bäst hos oss?

(The orange-red color is the color of our bench that we bought in SF last fall. That color has to fit in to the mix)

Soon it is time for the painter to do his job and before then we have to decide which color to use where. WHITE, DARK GREY and BLACK are the base colors. Like in so many other Swedish homes.

Nytt badkar....

.....efter en utflykt till Halmstad bestämde vi oss för detta badkar ifrån Noro istället.

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We actually found a both cheaper and better version of the bathtub we were planning to buy. So now we will stop looking, this one will be great.

Bath

It is called IOS-150 from Victoria + Albert. You can see a better picture off it HERE.
The only bad thing with it is of course the price, other than that it will be perfect.

More interior...

I väntan på granne godkännande har vi inhandlat ett A till A, tyvärr fanns det inget C till C. Någon som känner någon som kan snickra ihop en C-hylla?

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Since we got some interior for us grownups it wasnt more than fare that we bought something fun for the kids area. Unfortunaly there was no C-shelf so we have to come up with something fun for C too.

(picture from PBK)

Nya möbler

I SF finns en av våra favoritbutiker, Propeller, när det gäller inredning.

I går köpte vi där vår första möbel till nya huset. Det är en bänk ifrån Botanist. Vi var intresserade redan för två år sedan men prislappen var då för hög. När vi nu fick chansen till att handla med 60% rabatt var det i stort sätt omöjligt att låta bli.

Utemöblerna ovan var både snygga och sköna. Det var även 60% rabatt på dem, men trots det så har vi ännu inte köpt dem. Bygglovet är ju inte helt klart ännu, vi inväntar grannegodkännande så vi kanske inte ska möblera hela huset innan det är färdigt. Sedan måste vi ju tänka på frakten hem till Svedala.

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On Hayes street we bought a bench that we have been wanting for years. We walked by and it was 60% off. We totallay agreed on that we just had to get it.

Interior design

This is the interior design with our modifications so far.


* A garage with a storage room, instead of a carport. This will also change the exterior of the house. with an angle on the backside.

* A second walk in closet in the Master bedroom.

* The master bathroom will be connected to the master bedroom only.
This is not standard as in US, although it is becoming more common over here.
The master bath is also smaller than in the original design.

* We added a low wall in the master bedroom and changed the rectangular window to a big round one.

* The kitchen and living room will have a more open design since we removed the wall in between them.

* In the wall between the hallway and the kitchen we added a little angle in the wall to hide the clothes hangers. All Swedish houses have a hallway, it is important for swedes to have a functional entrance. We missed that in US.

* In the northwest wing of the house the design is flipped vertical. We added a sliding door between the playroom and the livingroom.

*In the second bathroom we will add a bathtub and change the window from vertical to horizontal.


Please feel free to leave us feedback on the design, good and bad. We will be grateful for any help in the process, it is hard to think of every little aspect.

/L

27 April

Myresjöhus sålde tomten och därmed hade vi inga valmöjligheter när det gäller husleverantör. Modellen som vi med största sannolikhet kommer att bygga heter Tenor. Det var den som inom vår budget passar våra önskemål bäst. Bilderna ovan är standardutförandet och det kommer givetvis bli ändringar både extriört och interiört.

This is the house we are planning to build, with some modifications of course.
All our time goes to thinking about this, we have to decide how it is going to look on the inside, on the outside, plan the kitchen and the bathrooms, how to place the house on the lot and so on.There is so many choices to make right now so we are afraid to forget something important.

It is not only the interior and exterior on the house, there is lots of more boring stuff like heating and water to consider. All this would have been pretty easy if money were not a limitation. Today we are going to a showroom to check out some options.

/L