Roof and night tables

During these months in which I have down prioritize the blog, we have managed to buy quite some furniture. Finally the house is doesn't feel too empty and even the walls are not suffering any longer of being completely empty and abandoned.
We have even eventually changed Oscar's bed from a crib to a loooong bed.

Jugend bed matching Lightning McQueen blanket 

The bed is a typical cast iron Jugend bed. Sadly some of the small balls decorating the bed were missing and I have asked the blacksmith to fix some. He did, but now I have not yet fixed the color of them. They should be golden as in brass, but they are of course in iron.
Anyway. Next to the bed there is finally a "proper" night table. Before that there was a white office style drawer that Mattias had in his student dorm. Practical but not really matching the style of the room (I bet Oscar did care a lot about that detail).
I am still excelling in taking pictures, so the one above doesn't do justice to the bed and neither the night table.

Oscar's brand new night table

Improvements can be done at any time, but let's start with this and hope he will manage to open the night table drawer and the door without making everything falling on the ground.

The night table has a matching "little sister", which has been given to Oscar's big sister.  

Isabella's nighttable

Isabella's room is coming together. At her desk we see also a chair that has been "recently" bought. I have found out that that is a chair from IKEA, from the 60s, from the Desiree' serie (more info can be found here

Isabella's room

While we still try to fix the interior of the house (and furniture is just one of the issues, of course), we have minor and major projects outside (as already mentioned). 

We are back on one of our favorite subject. The roof. 

When we did the roof renovation we wanted to have all the metal (plåt) painted with linseed oil. 

That didn't work out as the company we hired for the work was not exactly up to the job. 

We then eventually found a pro for this kind of jobs and after two years he has finally had the opportunity to scheduled our roof.

It took anyway a while to start, but now at least there are progresses.

The tower is getting properly washed

I think I take better pictures when we talk roofs and such

After washing the metal, there is a base layer of color to put. Hopefully, we won't have the roof looking like this before the humidity in the air increases and then it is not possible to paint any longer.

The tower is getting refreshed

Standing on the top of the house (almost)

I find it fascinating to go close to the roof and see a lot of details that otherwise are invisible (or less visible).

The cornice is not exactly straight. But it seems by design (for letting the water reach the down pipes)

The old metal is of course not in top notch shape. That is also a reason to paint it. Not just because I am crazy and want to have specific color everywhere.
By looking so close to the metal, I have had also the opportunity to study a bit the old color. From the pictures it is of course impossible to identify the variations and except knowing that before 1976 (when the Svenssons bought the house) there was a roof with clay tiles where the metal was brown and whitish, we have no much clue how the roof was originally. Except, it seems that the tiles were the same as in 1958 (so the clay ones).

A detail from the metal that is most likely original in the house

Our attempt to have two shades of green to have the same variation as in the pictures from 1909 is not that wrong. However, as the roof foot was pale yellow, it seems that also the cornice was having the metal pale yellow.
But not all the way up! At the certain level you can see that the deeper layers are a darker green.
Interesting and also a bit frustrating. I would have loved to have the roof with the right colors (and tiles) that the house had 1906.
If I live long enough to go through another roof renovation, I will try that reconstruction (I will probably be too senile for it!)