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new drawer

We finally finished the lower cabinets on one side of the kitchen. The only thing missing is a handle, but of course Ikea stopped manufacturing the one that we have on all other drawers. I’ve looked online but with no luck. We have to come up with something for that, so ignore the missing handle. …

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new kitchen addition

After 6 years of living in this apartment, we finally got a dishwasher. I am a very happy camper! No more cleaning the dishes by hand. But before we could use it, we had to do a couple of tweaks to our kitchen cabinets to fit it in. The existing cabinets were 60 cm in …

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the door – the other side

We finished the door on the other side the previous weekend. Yeeey! The process was the same as on the other side, so I won’t go into details. You can read all about it in the previous post. The conclusion. I must say that it clearly keeps the heat and sound inside the apartment better than before. …

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the door

Winter is coming!  While we save up some money to invest in a proper front door, we decided to insulate them and make them a little more sound proof. I don’t know why, but our front door is just a regular door made for the inside of a building. They are really slim, the sound and heat just goes through …

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the dog bed

Let’s not kid ourselves, we all know that the real stars of this blog are Chia and Roo. Not mrs N’s sofa or the parquet table or even the cute mr Rhino, C & R are the real deal, the real superstars. Without them this would just be an ordinary DIY blog. So, as a sign …

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the chair

We’ve had this chair for years and in those years it got reupholstered a couple of times. But when I say reupholstered I mean ‘finished in one hour with a staple gun’. Since we’ve had such luck with Mrs N sofa, we decided that it was time to reupholster this chair like it should be for real. So …

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