{"id":3161,"date":"2011-08-08T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2023-01-16T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:24:27","slug":"the_remodelling_different_choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/the_remodelling_different_choices\/","title":{"rendered":"The remodelling: different choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Bathroom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">(Neither the cabinet on the floor nor the tree <br \/>will be here in the long term.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nA good thing about buying a house for the long term is that we can make odd choices. I intend to live here for the next 20 years or so at least, circumstances allowing. We don&rsquo;t need to think about what the real estate market likes, what sells and what doesn&rsquo;t. We can do our own thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nItem one: <b>colour on walls<\/b>. White interiors are definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/lindstrom_schyffert_-_ljust_och_frascht\/\">the in thing<\/a>. It&rsquo;s almost a joke &ndash; any time a newspaper runs a story about someone&rsquo;s home, the photos are all white. Any time a house is up for sale, the interior is white. (I wonder how many of them have painted the walls white just before the sale.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe chose to go against that current. The two living rooms have colourful wallpaper: one in cream and red, one in green tones. The entry hall and the office have deep green walls. Now whenever I walk upstairs, where the walls all still have their original white colour, my spontaneous reaction is that the space feels raws and unfinished.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe bathroom has a spacious shower corner but <b>no bathtub<\/b>. The old bathroom had ample space, but we moved the bathroom to a new location to make space for other changes, and the new room is much smaller, perhaps about half the old one. We traded a bathtub for more living space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor us this was no real loss. We never take baths; I think I may have taken a single bath since we moved here three years ago, and Eric may have taken a couple of baths as well. Ingrid likes to soak and play in a tub occasionally but we have a small portable tub for her.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLess controversially, we chose <b>untreated pine<\/b> floors. No hardwoods, no oak parquet, no varnish and no oil. We will be treating the floors with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/yesterday_cheese_no_good_today_building_work_done\/\">linseed oil soap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Neither the cabinet on the floor nor the tree will be here in the long term.) A good thing about buying a house for the long term is that we can make odd choices. I intend to live here for the next 20 years or so at least, circumstances allowing. We don&rsquo;t need to think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16672,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/16672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}