Latest news on the house

For all you readers out there, some news on the new Jonny and Flo residence!

I called the council yesterday and spoke to the clerk that is handling our building license. She had an answer back from the responsible council construction department (all okay) and is still waiting to hear back from the fire department. That should be this week or next week at the latest. With all the fire alarms on our drawing, we don’t expect any problems there….

So that means that we can finally start the building next week! We are still waiting for the final quote from the building contractor, which he should send us today. We negotiated the quote down by about 50%, so no problems there. Apart from us wondering whether he was having us on with the first quote or that my newly acquired negotiating skills as licensing manager are finally paying of. We like to think the latter.

Meanwhile, we are still chasing up the guys from the stairs and the garden for a quote. The building contractor suggested going to www.hornbach.nl to get a ready-made stairs. His guys can adapt that to fit. Something to look into this weekend, since it will probably save us quite some money. That we can then spend on nice things… Like a chest of drawers for the bathroom? That is what we will be looking for on Saturday at this place: www.loods23.nl

We are both so looking forward to moving into to our new place, potter around in the garden, have people over for dinner at our long table, having a rain shower in our bathroom, relax at the chaise longue in front of the double doors opening on to the garden and last but not least the house-warming party! We'll let you know the date soon hopefully!