Kitchen
-
The kitchen and bathrooms are in sight
No renovation without a surprise / when there are many cooks there are mixers in the soup / no tap without a change of colour / creative problem solving is an enriching study. And what are those Finnish sayings now. When you order an "easy" Ikea kitchen, you have to remember that when you're gently flicking through the design program, you don't immediately have in mind that the finished kitchen will have many professionals behind the cabinets. Two...
-
Microcement walls on the wall
Now both the bathroom and kitchen microcement walls are finished. The bathroom, with all the angles and pipe spacing, was done by a professional and the blank straight wall surfaces in the kitchen were done by my own hands and my father's hands. The material is mixed from powder and colourant, first one layer of a coarser base material and then two layers of a slightly silkier top coat. The surface is allowed to dry and then sanded. We sanded it by hand...
-
Microcementing
Making the renovation work for you. If material choices have been made, then today I have been able to call myself a renovator too. The kitchen will be fitted with a micro-cement wall, the base of which has now been shovelled into the walls. The colour is selva, which is Spanish for forest, jungle. The forest idea fits well, as there will be wooden open shelves on the wall and a knotty, wooden shelf for kitchen utensils in the kitchen. More on those later. The micro-cement mortar is mixed with coloured...
-
Pace stick
This month's apartment events are locked down. In a rhythmic fashion, it goes like this: 1) microcement men in the bathroom, I spy a bit on their work and then do the kitchen wall microcementing myself, 2) bathroom floor tiles arrive, 3) wood floors sanded and waxed/oiled white, 4) kitchen furniture delivered, 4) kitchen installed, 5) wardrobe carpet arrives. So these are already on the calendar, but in addition to these, the apartment will be painted at least at unspecified intervals,...
English (UK) 
Suomi