The Bauernhaus

What little spare time I've had these past two weeks has been spent working on small, but rather dusty and long jobs in the living room....

On Saturday, I decided to tackle a job I'd been putting off for some time, that of removing layers of paint from one of the big beams su...

The weather has been warming up nicely, which makes it a little more pleasant doing work on the house. Stuff that has happened over the past...

A small update. Coming to the top of the stairs to the second floor there used to be a wall with a door. August 2011 After removing al...

After a couple of false starts, today was the day the Zellofant came. We spent the best part of six hours together, so I got to know it very...

The old beam in the living room, which was cracked and beyond repair , sagged in the middle, so was propped up be a post. Of course, this ...

Or, up me beam, to be more accurate. A few weeks ago, my wife arranged to get an old oak beam from a chap in the next village. Lutz (our c...