Vacation is over...

Inget är hugget i sten innan huset är på plats. Vi har redan gjort ändringar efter att vi skrev på att vi inte skulle göra några mer ändringar på slutbeställningen.
En av anledningarna är att husets placering inte var färdig när vi gjorde den slutgiltliga beställningen, vi har därför fått tänka om lite för angående fönster för att anpassa till husets placering på tomten. Det är ju inte så kul att stirra rakt in i en bergvägg.

Ovan, Eventuell utsikt från ett av de små sovrum #2.
Above, the view from bedroom #2.

Vi har även ändrat storleken på fönster i tvättstugan eftersom en eventuell bänkskiva annars hade hamnat framför fönstret istället för under. Detta tack vare Camilla och Krille som i början av sommaren flyttade in i sitt "Tenor" hus. Tack för tipset!

Men nu är det slut på ändringar som påverkar extriören. På Torsdag morgon ska vi lämna besked om de absolut SISTA ändringarna. Fast det är klart för att få bygglov kan vi behöva ändra lite på utformningen av förrådet för att hamna innanför tomtgränsen.

Vi har även avbeställt bänkskivan inkl diskho eftersom vi inte var helt nöjda med bänkskivan som HTH kunde leverera. Vi ska utforska marknaden lite mer och se om vi kan hitta ett bra alternativ.

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July is a really slow month in Sweden. It is hard to get anything done involving someone else. But now things have started to move again around our house building project.Unfortunately our guy at county office is still on vacation and will be for a couple off weeks more. We need him to sign the permit to build for us.

But this is what have happened since our last post a month ago.

* J have spent lots of time trying to measure up exactly where on our lot the house will be. He found the perfect place (or at least a good enough spot), only problem is that in that position one of the corners is outside the lot.

* We have added, moved and changed some windows.

* Removed to counter top from our order, we will try to find a better solution than the basic we ordered to begin with.

* Done some research on the interior in the second Bathroom.

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.

28 April

Papers and brochures is all over our place. It is hard to focus on one thing at the time. But we made some progress and have made some decisions.

In Sweden most people settle for a garage with room for one or two cars. Garage for three cars does not exists, at least it is very rare. It is not like driving on Alcosta Blvd towards San Ramon (from Dublin) in Cali where most houses have three car ports.

We will only park one car in the garage and are planning to have an isolated storage room added. We are not sure this plan over where to place the garage will work out. We asked our contact at Myresjöhus today and he is going to look in to it.

Other than that we have figured out some solutions for the inside, we are planning for one more walk-in closet. The Kitchen will probably be smaller and with an island. The dinning area we plan to move to the livingroom.

/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