Pink and Barbara

Our big Cottage the ins and outs....

Hi!

Here is a post with some more information about out big Cottage and pictures!

Hier wat meer information over ons zomerhuis, dus het grote huis..en foto's!

The big fireplace in the living room/ De grote openhaard in de woonkamer

The livingroom:

The Kitchen/ De keuken:

The whole house has this adorable wallpaper / door het hele huis is er lief behang

This is the cottage in the night-time since we have no lights and so on./ Zo ziet het huisje er s'avonds uit omdat we geen electriciteit hebben:

The only thing to do in the evenings is play a game or read and have a cup of tea./ Het enigste wat je s'avonds kunt doen is lezen, een spelletje spelen en een kopje thee drinken!

 The Cottage got its name from the creek that goes by it./ Het huisje heeft zijn naam te danken aan de beek die ernaast loopt.:

 

Bye!

Barbara
 

 

The Cottage the ins and outs....! in Dutch too!

Hi Everybody!

I have gotten some questions after my blog entries about my house and our Cottage. Some people think that live in the woods without any electricity and so on. 

I live in a small village in the area of Västerås. Västerås is about 100km west from Stockholm. Our cottage is about 250km below Stockholm by a village called Oskarhamn. I used to live in Oskarhamn and went to high-school there and my family had a summer house there. When we all moved back to Holland we kept the cottage. 

Ik heb wat vragen gekregen nadat ik een aantal ik geblogged had over ons huisje. Een aantal mensen denken dat ik in het bos woon zonder electriciteit enz.  Ik woon in een dorp ongeveer 100 km van Stockholm bij een grotere stad die Västerås heet.  Ons huisje/cottage ligt ongeveer 250km onder stockholm in de buurt van een dorp die Oskarshamn heet. Hier heb ik op het voortgezet onderwijs gezeten. Toen mijn ouders weer naar Nederland gingen hebben we het zomerhuis wat we toen hadden gehouden

The Cottage has some outbuildings. Last summer me and dh got to renovate a smaller cottage to have as our own. You can read about that renovation here:  http://pinkandbarbara.typepad.com/my_weblog/cottage/

Ons zomerhuis heeft een aantal oude kleine gebouwtjes. Vorige zommer hebben ik en mijn man een huisje mogen verbouwen zodat we een eigen huisje zouden hebben. Over die verbouwing kun je hier lezen: http://pinkandbarbara.typepad.com/my_weblog/cottage/

So this is our normal house/ ons huis:

This is the Big Cottage. (the big building in the background. The building you see on the right is our cottage) / Dit is het zomerhuis: (het grote huis op de achtergrond, het huis rechts op de foto is ons kleine huisje)

  

Our litle Cottage/ Ons kleine huisje:

 So I hope that it is a bit more clear now... / Ik hoop dat het nu wat duidelijker is!

Hugs!, Groetjes Barbara

My own cottage!

I am back from my Holiday. It wasn't just relaxing as planned. We had an very old cottage on our land with just a few beds in it for extra guest in one room. The other room was used for washing clothes a long time ago but we used it as a junk room. It didn't have a ceiling or floor and was just dark and gloomy. So I asked my dad if I could redo it so I would have my own place and he said YES!

So this is the front of the cottage. On the left side was the extra room with the beds in pink. On the right side was the room for washing without the floor and the ceiling. In the middle of the cottage is a big chimney with a fireplace for the small guest room and a big fire place used for the washing of clothes which work excellent Both room have a different entrance.

This is what the left room looked like with before we started, 2 guest beds and a old sofa and a big table squeezed in:

This is the wall that we took out to the other room:

This is the washing room on the right with no floor or ceiling. Because it didn't have a floor or ceiling we used it as a junk room. You can see the walls are make out of waste timber some places still had wallpaper on it and other stuff. On the left side of the fireplace you see the other side of the wall of the pink wall in the former picture.

 

So we got all the junk out. We put a ceiling in the junk room and a floor. I painted the new floors in the pink room and in the junk room the same grey as I painted the windows and the doors. We painted the walls and the ceiling white.

So the pink room now looks like this:

The junk room now looks like this: We have just finished the painting and things, I will be adding curtains and so on:

Here you can see the where we took away the wall to create one big room putting the "junk" room and the pink room together.

So we still have to do some small things to finish the rooms like there will be ledges on the ceiling and the floors and on the right side of the fireplace we prepared plumbing so their will be a sink and a small stove there just to make a cup of tea. The cooking will still be done in the big house.

I can't wait to go back and decorate with some fabrics and so on. The chairs are old and were in a shed. The table was there as well and I repainted it.

It was hard work but I am so happy with it...our own place!

Our friend Peter helped me and my Dh Håkan...thank you!

The cottage part 3

Just a few more small post about the cottage.

When we were at the cottage it was midsummer, so we went to a traditional midsummer dance:

and:

We had some lovely weather but it was cold. Since we have had a very cold start on the spring and summer the water in the lake was still cold. Well since we don't have any electricity or running water in the cottage when you have to shower or take a bath there is only one option:

and if you think it to cold this is an option too:

Have a great weekend!

The Cottage part 2

On the way to the cottage you pass a village called Stenjö By. It is about 20 minutes from our Cottage. It is an old village and they try and keep it that way. It is very rustic. They also use it sometimes to record old movies. One series was in some parts recorded here. It is called Emil in Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren.

Some of you might remember this:

 

Some of the pictures we took.

Enjoy!

The cottage part 1

As some of you know we have this lovely cottage in the South of Sweden where we normally spent our holidays and also celebrate Midsummer solstice.

This time we went down and celebrated midsummer solstice and had a wonderful time. We had 2 Dutch guests over and some Swedish friends as well. I have taken a lot of pictures to share with you so I will do this in some parts...

Part 1 is about the lake. We have "our own lake" about a 3 minute drive or a 15 minute walk from us. It has some great rocks by the edges so that you can sunbathe and swim there. We don't really know how big our lake is because it goes around a bend. but on the maps it looks big.

Here is a satellite picture:

Visa större karta

The arrow is our cottage and the lake is on the left.

Here are some pictures on of the lake:

Enjoy!

Part 2 coming soon...