Enclosed gardens

We have a garden. A nice little garden, small lawn, beautiful flowers and roses- some old ones and som new.
The garden is placed in front of our house facing the street. This means that our house is withdrawn from the street which is nice, but sadly it also means that our garden is a popular place for people to relieve themselves of litter or body fluids.

Also last year all our roses was stolen. Made me quite grumpy I must say...

Still- we love our garden but we would very much like to make it into an enclosed garden, a japanese enclosed garden. This is perfect since our garden has just a couple of hours of sunlight each day and it would look great with gravel, moss, a little pond and shadowloving plants! Making it an enclosed garden would open up for a different and of course a more private use of this space. We do not use it much now- just keeping it as nice and tidy as possible. Has to stay a dream for now- other projects are more urgent and we do like to travel also- so until further we choose to dream about it.

Have an absolutely fabulous evening! Found some pictures to inspire our garden dream!

Customizing grumpyhouse

When you live in an old house where no corners have the right angle, floors and walls and even the ceiling leans in all directions one has to be good at customizing.

We bought some new kitchen cabinets a while ago and ended up with a small space between the cabinet and the wall. Finally Mr Grumpy made what I wanted to have here. A small shelf for cutting boards.

Perfect!!

We have also customized shoe shelfs, stereounit, and we ( = I have plans for Mr Grumpy) plan to make several shelfs in otherwise useless places in the house, and a storage place for firewood in the living room.

Before there was no shelf even-
now there is a very useful shelf

Perfect!

Scaffolding is gone! Wiiiiii! And since we are hiring people to finish for us Mr Grumpy has the time to do things like this! Love it!

Floor plans ( I hope....)

What can I say. These are our floor plans. Since our house is around 20 meters long (at least main floor, actually the house is longer than 20 meters) we wanted to give it one floor to combine all the rooms.

We completly fell for Dinesen floors. You can check their website here: Dinesen floors

Look at this! Isn`t it awesome??

from pinterest

It is not difficult to see why we want this floor. It is absolutely stunning. Grumpy and Mr Grumpy have always agreed on this matter. There is only one floor we want and it has to be made of solid wood.
And the best ones are Dinesen.

We started the process with Dinesen a couple of years ago but had to postpone the whole thing due to other pressing rehabilitation dutys.
At Dinesen they are extremly serviceminded and kind and I highly recommend them! I still have a bad conscience about our last minute withdrawal. We were just about to press the "BUY" button and then we said no.

I wondered if I should have called this post floor dreams but that would be a defeat. It is still a plan.

However we have to wait some more. We do not want to lay this floor down ourselves so we have to wait until we can afford it- both workers, shipping and floor. Although it looks expensive it isn`t actually when you compare it to other solid floors. What`s expensive about it for our part is the preparing and the shipping costs. So we wait. Patience is a virtue when you refurbish- a ground rule if you ask me.

Mr Grumpy gets sick every time he hears the words "do something" so it is out of the question that he will have any other role in this but to be a supervisor.

He has got so fed up the last weeks so we are hiring people to do some of those finishing touches. Might be unnecessary but for Mr Grumpy it is crucial that he gets some time off.

So maybe- if Mr Grumpy reads this he can look at these pictures and imagine how great it will be. In our house this will be incredibly good looking. Long solid wood- 20 meters down. *sigh* :D

From http://design-conscious.blogspot.no/2010/04/dinesen.html

If you can dream it you can do it.
Just keep swimming!

Combat sports

Grumpy and Mr Grumpy are nerds when it comes to martial arts and combat sports. Mr Grumpy loves wushu, Grumpy loves kickboxing. Grumpy`s big project in 2012 was losing weigth, and kickboxing killed soooo many calories! Grumpy is a thinner and much fitter grumpy person now. I recommended kickboxing as a sport mainly because you will achieve peace with the universe after training (and if you are looking for a fun sport and lose weight at the same time... don`t hesitate. Find the nearest club ASAP!!).

There is nothing left afterwards but peace.
The sky might fall down- you will not care.

Try it! (especially healthy during house rehabilitation- and that is a promise!)

Look at those bold colours! Need some of that in my home for sure!
(Picture from Artslink.wordpress.com)

Wishing you a kicking good day!
Grumpy

Easter tranquility

Finished with two shifts at work- now I will enjoy some time off and what is left of the easter holidays.

Searched for quaint houses on the web today and this article from Elle Decor came up. So many cool houses although some of them are too narrow even for me.

Check here for narrow funny houses

Enjoy the evening! I will. 

(Red wine and chocolates)

ooops

Although I don`t have many readers I think I owe the ones I have an apology. Time has had a horrible pace the last weeks and suddenly I haven`t had the time, the energy or any interesting themes to blog about. So over two weeks have passed without any blog posts. I apologize.

I am generally tired at the moment. All the little finishing touches are still undone- I can only hope Mr Grumpy will manage to fix some of them during easter. I have some time off during easter and hopefully I`ll find some inspiration then.
I am not a professional blogger, just an ordinary woman a with full time job AND a second full time job at home. .
Sometimes it is overwhelming, and my blogging will be random.

Have a great night- talk soon!

PS- I always crave chocolate when I am exhausted. This was a weird picture that came up in a google search for "chocolate heaven". Doesn`t look very heavenly if you ask me....

Corbijn love

I am a huge Depeche Mode fan, and a Corbijn fan. His photos and their music are a perfect match.
Emmas designblogg had this post some time ago about Corbijn`s new studio- just gotta love it! I find this inspiring when it comes to decorating my house too.

More pictures here:
Check out Emmas blogg  too!