The last run !

Too many days (weeks?) passed-by, and we have not given you any news!

Blame the 24-hour days ...

You must know that our choice to have a single bedroom in our new house had a direct consequence: our children, who still lived with us in our previous home, had to ... pack their bags.

What awfull parents we are! ;-D
But, well, at 23 and 25, each independent financially and each with their boy/girl friend, was it not time they fly with their own wings?

In short, and as a "punishment" for this decision, we gladly helped them to settle down in their own "home, sweet home."
Since September, paintings, wood flooring, kitchen installation, moving furnitures in, fixing lights, curtains and other accessories that make a home worthy of the name ... do this twice ... and not much time for you, dear readers.

Finaly, since nearly two weeks, we started to make our own move!

In prevision of this days, we informed the owner of the rental house 4 months ago now, while construction proceeded like clockwork, and we even planed an extra month, to be "comfortable".
The planned date for the houose delivery was end of October, everything should have happened as a the many previous moves we made, and we can rely on a long experience in this matter!

There is just a small glitch: the house is not finished ...
How to get the furniture while the workers are still laying tile and painting walls and ceilings ... and working on everything else: electricity, heating, sanitary ...

Due to all these "small things" which we have talked about, and with the constraints inherent and unavoidable for a new construction, we have seen with horror inexorably approaching the deadline to which we must give back our current home to its new renter.
Will we find ouselves "in the street" with all our bazaar? ...

Fortunately, fortunately, we had the absurd idea a few years ago to use containers in our project!
As the bottom one was not involved in any such finishing works (we remind you: planned use is storage and my workshop), at least we could load these areas closed by two secure doors.

Since two weeks, we played the dockers: we filled a container!

But even if we can not present pictures yet (damn days 24 hours ...), please know that the changes since the previous post have been HUGE!

Status on November 25th: tiling of the ground floor done, finishing and painting walls and ceilings done, stairs set up (forget the ladder!), laying of the support OSB floor (I will put the final parket later) on the first floor, finishing the upper container and the area of the large bay window, electrical power and functional heating system (all plumbing, tank, pumps), the stove and chimney are in place, the two main door are set, the lower bathroom being finished.

The workers of Renken and Macken are there every day and are doing a great job for minimizing the time until we get the keys and enter our house.

This is just a few sentences to tell you that the project is not stopped, on the contrary, it even seems to give us all hope of taking possession of our house very soon.

We would like to end this post with this image that we had an afternoon, bringing another load of furniture and boxes: the smoking chimney ...
The pellet stove had been lit for the first time, to put the system into "test": a small flame was burning in the hearth of the house.

Our house was born this day.