Wooden creativity

Sometimes things happen at the most unplanned time.
We came back from our Italian Christmas holidays, ready to go to Kalmar and in the short break home, Mattias, with the help of Oscar and a minor assistance of Isabella, put together a structure for letting firewood dry in the basement.

This was very much needed, as in our six years in Bellevue, we have accumulated plenty of firewood (and still, there is plenty to come) and just storing wet logs on the floor is not the best idea ever.

The good with Mattias' invention is that he used some apple storage boxes/frames which we never managed to use to store apples. 

Well done, I'd say!

When a cord matters

In our home lamps and candles are very important. The house is big, with big areas and when the winter darkness reigns, having small sources of light make the environment warmer and cozier, of course.

I believed that I did put up this lamp already on the blog, but obviously that happened just in reality.
This summer I put down the lamp, bought at Erikshjälpen, hoping that it is at least resembly in the stile some jugend window lamp, because when we bought it it was connected with a dreadful white plastic cord.
We also managed to misunderstand each other, so it got cut pretty short and it hanged horribly on the window.

The lamp is shining at the window

I went and bought a more "old fashioned" looking electrical cord at Byggfabriken and finally, after several months and a bit of reminders and nagging, it was fixed by the local electrician (Mattias) and it got back to its place.

A close up

When doing this the base for the lamp of course broke. So, we have still some minor tasks left for completing this operation: fix an old fashioned plug and get a new socket for the lightbulb.

I accept bets on when this will be handled :)

No more "tic, tic, tic, ..."

Let's say that our kitchen would need some form of care and refreshment there and then. The oven has broken twice, then it has been the turn of one of the plates, the layout is impractical, the doors of cabinets are torn and unfresh, the floor is completely messy and so on and so forth. Though we are still holding to it, while I am dreaming of putting back the wall between the kitchen and the serveringsingång, move the "kitchen" towards the chimney as it was possibly originally and so on and so forth.
Since the only original piece of kitchen cabinets have traces of its first paint to be dark green, I have also fallen for that style, although originally I was shocked by it.

I did find a beautiful kitchen pic once on Instagram, but I can't find it anymore...

Anyone, with the head full of ideas we have not done anything towards the kitchen. But the kitchen has cried out for help almost since we moved, since the tap has barely worked properly ever.

The "good" thing is that in the past 4-5 months it had added an annoying constant dropping, in addition to some form of water pond leakage on the base of it.

I got fed up. 

Sometimes IKEA can deliver!

And today, finally, the pain is over! We got a brand new, water efficient, not ticking annoyingly, tap!