Media and entertainment section. Board games, vinyls and now the CDs. |
Sorting the CDs out |
Media and entertainment section. Board games, vinyls and now the CDs. |
Sorting the CDs out |
The final result |
From another point of view |
We have a little grind, between where we park the cars and we could sit having dinner. Something that probably the owner just before us installed in the garden.
Last year, we found one of the decorative pine cones on the ground and we realized it was very much high time to fix this little grind.
I can't right now find the picture of how it looked then. Nevertheless, the blacksmith came and took the grind with him. He told us to try to sand the pillars and fix them up, thing that we didn't really exactly managed to do. Time but also skills have been an issue.
The gate is back and the pillars are sanded |
The pine cone |
The main entrance (as it was 2012) with the lamp lit |
This early spring came finally the windows in place.
I am challenging myself that I want to fix the windows frame myself, but we will see how it goes with the time this summer. I still have a pile of things to fix for the pool house that are waiting since forever...
One of the windows |
Details with the nicely painted "horngäng" |
Eventually we will have to paint again the windows - I think that the next round we will use a bit darker color.
Also, I have got a lot of problems with this apricot red in the pool house frames and I wonder if it is how I painted or simply how Ottossons colors are reacting to the impurities that exists in the air.
All the windows are in place |
Bleeding through the paint? |
One of the windows, before the first inspection |
And after |
A close-up |
One can guess the damage by looking like this |
One of the first "surprises"; but quite to be expected. Some wood that is not really in good state anymore |
Not the best state for this piece of wood, probably a "sidostycke", one of the side pieces of the window |
Another view of the piece |
Not so much left of this "gångjärn" |
After removing the "hornjärn", one can see what is left of the wood underneath |
This seems mildly better |
It doesn't seem like there are many windows that are in good state |
Window #5, with "spröjs". Can that piece of wood be saved? |
It seems that the combination of modern paint ("plastfärg") and the "hornjärn" has been lethal for most of the windows. |
And more |
Another one... |
What does this teach us? To not use plastic/water based paint! |
They never end |
Again |
The marks of the "hornjärn" |
This window had a couple of nails holding some things together (!!!) |
The beauty of finding the original color (sadly a darker red than the one we have picked) under the layers of color. |
Beautiful reparation |
Most of the windows required reparations |
Seamless work |
New "gångjärn" is placed on the new wood |
The reparation is minimal and one tries to preserve as much as possible of the original wood |
Even some wood that doesn't look healthy is often in better state than it looks |
It is important to try to use wood from slow growing trees to guarantee more robustness and quality |