Some pictures of the renovation...

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The renovation lasted about two years. We started in the attic and ended outside.

The attic as we found it:

The walls were hosed down with a pressure washer; on the right in this picture is a piece that wasn't cleaned yet.

18cm isolation, vapour barrier, and the beams treated against vermin. Should last another century.

framework and OSB...

The most difficult angle to make in OSB (you can't hide anything with plaster as you can with drywall)

The result isn't too bad...

The fumoir, with the pipes for the bathroom ventilation.

We've put in these windows, and new heating and electricity of course.

The low ceiling was dictated by the need for smoke extraction and the roof carpentry.

The couch camouflages the ventilation shafts, electricity and heating tubes.

The result.

The floors were stripped of the ballatum (a glue-on flooring fabric), all the nails were driven in a bit further, then the floors were sanded with a coarse and a fine machine and then varnished. Quickly said, days of work!

The upstairs hallway, with the old radiators and electricity still in place and that "lovely" ballatum on the floor.

We had to make a small hole to get the pool table and radiators in the attic...

During the works...

Almost finished: only the plinths and cleaning to do.

We often had to make do during the works.

The radiators and some tubes had burst in the winter with the heating off. We had no other option except to renew it all. We stripped about a ton of scrap iron from the house.

The drains were renewed as well, the drilling of the hole through the basement wall took 3 hours.

Grinding in the natural stone wasn't easy.

We made new plinths from planed planks, just as it was done originally.

Shutters and outside woodwork were stripped of their paint and painted again. The upstairs windows remain to be done.

The bureau as it was...

Flash forward.

The bathroom was originally a bedroom.

An ideal place for miscellaneous wiring and tubes.

Walls, radiators, floor (water resistant plastic), toilet and cabinet are in place and the cracks in the ceiling repaired...

A bit of paint can work miracles.

Almost done.

The washing room.

This was the original fuse box.

A somewhat more modern version under construction...

Ready for use!

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