... Overview of all remodelling work done

Building a dining room

The house was missing a dining room in the tradition like we know it. But there was a so-called "family room" (it used to contain a billard table) and the kitchen was much too small.

This made us decide to swap rooms, i.e. the old kitchen was to become the dining room and a new kitchen was going to be installed in the former family room.
Follow the work from a dark and narrow kitchen to a cosy and roomy dining area:

  • Begone old kitchen! You shall become a dining room.
  • These beautiful (lol) kitchen kabinets in rustic dark oak wood ...
  • ... are moved into the garage ...
  • ... to be used as work bench and storage for tools etc.
  • The appliances which either could not be used or were defekt were thrown out or sold on ebay.
  • This tall cabinet stood beside ...
  • ... the leaking fridge, ...
  • ... and the press board of that side...
  • ... looked like mulch.
  • The opening between the front room and the kitchen ...
  • ... electrical cables and water pipes are in the open already
  • This opening to the area to become the dining room has been enlarged already
  • The tall cabinet has gone and the opening to the front door has been enlarged, too.
  • our first "dining room": folding chairs and table on the terrace
  • Ad interim we have put the future lanai furniture into the family room
  • for a short period of time: a peephole to the front room (for the tv on the other side)
  • The original yellow plexiglass panes in the ceiling have disappeared, some paint and industrial ceiling lights bring a lot  more light into the room
  • The new furniture has arrived.
  • Add a little bit of wall decoration and ...
  • ...the area becomes a cosy breakfast space.
  • A little bit of fake ivy and dimmable hanging lamps ...
  • ...  makes it even cosier ...
  • ... and when we found the benches too hard over the time we exchanged them for yellow leather seats around the table
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