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• Tschuess and goodbye!
  on May 31, 2013
  Dear readers and friends out there!No activities here for a long time and I finally decided to close this blog. So it's time to say goodbye, I guess:"Tschüss und auf Wiedersehen!" to all of you.Thanks for all of your comments and good wishes - they...
• Our front door: 1944, 2007 and in future?
  on Jul 26, 2007 in Hornburg monument protection doors photos
  We found an old picture of our front door dating from 1944: Photo: © „Bildarchiv Foto Marburg“And this is what it looks like now, unfortunately:My husband added one major change to it last weekend: He enlarged the mail slot... ;) We receive a lo...
• More of own harvest
  on Jul 21, 2007 in recipe garden
  Our red currants are ripe! I forgot to take pictures of the harvest, but here's what the red currants ended up as:Delicious!Recipe:Roll out a shortcrust, put ground hazelnut and sugar on it, cover that with a lot of red currants, sprinkle with sugar...
• First (failed) try working with clay...
  on Jul 20, 2007 in clay gypsum floor carpet bedroom mould
  ... or: it doesn't smell the way it looks ... ;)As described in my last post, we had a hole in our bedroom floor (gypsum) and after getting rid of that ancient mouse nest we had to fill the hole if we didn't want to risk breaking our ankles stumbling...
• Xylophaga or dry rot?
  on Jul 15, 2007 in wood worm flooring mice gypsum floor carpet
  No - just an ancient mouse nest... Shortly after moving into our house in March, we found this and were terrified:We couldn't quite figure out what it was and thought of xylophaga or dry rot. We saw huge bills arise in front of us to save the house...
• Discoveries in an old house (I): Eight (!) layers of wallpaper
  on Jul 11, 2007 in renovation living room wallpaper preservationist
  I really love our old house!!! Just for fun we tried to look underneath the wallpaper in the bottom area of the walls in our living room. There seemed to be some kind of bulge and we wanted to know what it is. At first, my husband got stock with his...
• Update on monument protection - first decision taken
  on Jun 29, 2007 in monument protection
  Dear readers, please keep your fingers crossed!After thinking all the pros and cons of getting listed the inside of our house over and over again, we had another chat with the State preservationist today. I asked him a lot of questions concerning the...
• Upcoming decision - readers' opinions more than welcome!
  on Jun 22, 2007 in Hornburg monument protection
  Our house is listed as a historical building, exactly as all the other houses in the historic city centre of Hornburg. We have to preserve everything on the outside of the house (facade, windows, roof etc.) and if we want to make any changes, we have...
• Kitchen - sloping floor and building in appliances
  on May 13, 2007 in flooring countertop appliances kitchen three-phase current mice windows
  Back in February I wrote that we'd make some changes to the kitchen that the previous owner left behind - I wanted to paint it over in white. Well - we didn't do that at all... We decided to do a major renovation in about two years' time: new floorin...
• Old gardens and a planned swimming pond
  on May 1, 2007 in swimming pond garden
  I never wrote much about why we actually bought an old house instead of constructing/buying a new one just as all of our friends did. Well, there are many reasons for it - such as the atmosphere in an old house, its history, the lively neighbourhood...

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