Home improvement - the kitchen

Home improvement: the kitchen. Old walls made of stones, lime, gypsum (yeso) and sand and modern plaster don't match. Certainly not if the previous owners painted the wall with waterproof paint, causing the walls to go humid. We'll put a new, compatible, plaster on. "Kerakoll Eco Muro Seco". Sounds good, huh.

Also, the stairs to the cellar are not great, and have wooden steps. Better not have wood there, it attracts nasties like termites. And that plateau on the right has wooden beams in it that are all but eaten. Humidity a few years ago while the house was locked caused cracks in the construction. Time to amend that too.

If you remove old plaster various things from the past emerge. Like this wooden doorstopper. They don't make them like that any more.

And here's proof that at one time the door was not two, but one big door.

The kitchen furniture we put outside. It does not rain here. But we do have nasty gusts of wind. One blew over the big white Kewlox, which fell against the nice red Kewlox with the glass on top. It fell over, breaking three doors, and the glass. Which was not nice.

I think I may have mentioned sloppy work in the house in the past. Like just putting live electric wiring in the plaster. Ok, plaster is an insulator, when it's dry, but still.

Imagine our surprise with the construction of this shelf. We expected it to hang onto two screws or something. But no. Two fat threaded rods stuck 25 cm into the wall. Didn't see how the men got it off the wall. The wall still stands, and the shelf looks unharmed as well. Amazing.