They are back!

Once upon the time I feel in love with a furniture set. An IKEA (!) set "1700-talet", (hand)made in the 90s. After some digging I eventually managed to buy what I thought would fit in our veranda.

Unfortunately, though, it took few years and its age started to appear in terms of holes a bit everywhere and a bit too much.
So, I thought we would have to fix it up. Also this.

But now, they are finally back. It was a bit sad to see the "naked" couch and not be able to use it at all. Not that we sit there often anyway, but at least the look matters quite much ;)

The couch and the foot rest

Sadly, the exact same textile was not available. It had bigger squares. I don't know if by searching for more than the time I put into it, I would have actually succeeded in finding the right one. I do not like so much to compromise with how things were originally.

The armchair. The covers for the arm supports are still to be finished

We are almost nailing this. A small piece of textile needs to be ordered furthermore for the arm supports cover. They were simply too short and looked a bit weird (again... I have hard time with copromises...).
But, finally! We can sit there! I am sure the cats will be happy :) The foot rest was one of Pico's favorite places to sleep.

Shelves

Sometimes one has just to have patience.
Switching from "Billy" IKEA bookshelves (or similar) to better ones requires a bit of luck, especially when the kids' bedrooms are already crammed with furniture and toys and putting a classical big jugend bookshelf is utopia.

The idea has been then to try to find something that could be hanging on the walls, and as the time was passing I thought we would have ended up asking the carpenter to make one for us or similar.

But one day, in one of my daily checks for jugend items on Tradera (the local Ebay), I did find a very lovely piece that would have fit us very much (and it seems Isabella appreciated that too).

A beautiful flower decorated shelf

The small shelf is decorate with inlays of flowers, possibly Iris, which seems to be the recurrent flower in our home (both as windows, furniture and even flowers in the garden).

We are putting books on it

Details

The corner of Isabella's bedroom with the shelf

Certainly, the shelf beauty is a bit hidden by all the books, but that's just a detail.

Then, of course, also Oscar wanted to have something (well, he didn't really scream out loud on it or nagged about it) and on an auction online I saw a Jugend shelf that didn't get very popular.

I can guess why. When I went and pick it up, it was a massive piece and if the one of Isabella's seemed tinier than my imagination had thought, this one was definitely larger. 

My bad that I never check all the parameters of what I try to buy.

Oscar's shelf

Luckily, despite my clumsyness in not making sure the measurements would fit us, the piece fit the wall where it was supposed to be placed just perfectly fine.

Details

The good thing with the size is also that it can swallow a lot of books and items. 

Maybe I am on my way to get rid of a Billy bookshelf, finally?

Oscar's room with the shelf

Dangerous steps

Things naturally need maintenance.
But as we are busy with just normal cleaning, extraordinary cleaning, fixing flying pool roofs, trying to raise kids and indulge in sports and social life just to not become full time robots (while also squeezing other renovations, maintenance of all sort, etc.) we miss that some things of the house might need a more urgent intervention than we have forecast.

It is the case with our side entrance stairs.
I had noticed that they were getting some patina, but that they would start quickly to fall apart I didn't really expect.

The cats are waiting for us to let them in

I have no idea from which epoch these stairs are, but I can see that they have been cast on a different type (in terms of material) construction and hence I doubt they are from the jugend time. 

Though, I don't think they were redone by the last owner before us, so my suspect is that they are from when the Svensson sold the house (around 2000) or from when them or the Edler did the house renovations (1974 or 1958 in the latter case).

More and more pieces are simply falling off

Nevertheless. I do like the appearance as it looks a bit old fashioned, although this is concrete. The other stairs we have are made with some other material but I am unsure if that would be suitable here as we have the other part of the stairs as well.

How it looks underneath the stairs

Our plan is to just get some new concrete stairs that wouldn't look too modern. Like usual, getting some craftsman on board seems to be mission impossible. 

I have got one that should come and make some samples, but he was supposed to show that to us during this week and I haven't seen anything.

This is getting dangerous

I just hope that it survives till I manage to get at least this guy to fix something for us. Otherwise I guess we need to learn to fly.

Perfectioning the garage doors

The garage doors are one of those things that are never finished and deserve constant adjustments.
I suspect that also the pool house (and some of the windows I have renovated few years ago) will drag in time before we can consider it completed.

One of the things that we could not finish have been putting the key eschultcheon, since the hole was too big for it.

That's how it looked (well, this side still looks like this)

The eschulcheon is finally in place after few years

With some minor trick and carpenting, yesterday at least the front eschultcheon was screwed back in place. I suspect though that this is going to be a bit problematic as it hasn't even been oiled and could absorbed a lot of humidity for the rest of the door.

Next to do, to fix also the one on the inside of the door!