JENS MALMGREN I create, that is my hobby.

Series: Building a new house

This is the series where I tell you about the new house in a self-development area in the Netherlands. Initially, I talked about the house project in between other posts. Not until 2020 the project got so intense that complete blogs were about the new house.

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Finished the shed preparations
Finished the compost
Finished the rain roof
Moved the rain roof
Cleared the area behind the sea container
Moved the hay shed
Continued on the board project
Worked on the board project as much as possible
Continued on the boards of the tiny house
Started mounting boards below the tiny house
Insulated the pipes of the tiny house
Finished the boards project
Gravel under the boards
Finished mounting the cement boards
South side done
I started to hang up plates on the south wall
DD got her degree
Removing polystyrene
Let it grow!
Prepared the garden besides the driveway
Visit to a building company
Finished the stair case hall
First layer done in staircase hall
Ceiling above the staircase is painted
Merida sterilised
Worked on the building plan of the shed
Started preparing for plastering the workshop
Finished plastering the staircase hall
Almost finished the TopFinish layer in the stair case hall
Good progress
Next phase of the plastering project in the staircase hall
Almost finished plastering the first phase of the ceiling of the staircase hall
Plastered the staircase hall with TopFinish
Started on the TopFinish layer in the staircase hall.
Plastered the staircase hall and worked on spotlight effects
Third bucket of plaster in the staircase hall
Finished the door to the hatch above the bathroom
Borrowed a scaffold
Replaced the rain-roof
The road was finished!
Started on the staircase hall
Planted hawthorn
Construction of the road started
Prepared for the road construction
Next phase of the bluetongue crisis
Bluetongue
Finished the outdoor decluttering project
I finished the hay shed
Rebuilt the hay shed
Worked on the microphone project
We worked on the decluttering project
We finished the cupboard
Decluttering started
Cupboard backpanels finished
Cupboard preparations
The heating/cooling system is finished
Tiny house installation was finished
We got the tiny house
Finished painting the north hall
Watering system for the garden
South hall painted
Started preparing for the tiny house
Worked from the cottage
Garden season started
Half of the permanent fence is set up
Continued on the permanent fence
Continued to put up the permanent fence
Finished plastering the bedroom hall
Plastering TopFinish in the bedroom hall
Intense week
Regular work vs DIY week, holiday from the weekend
Started plastering the bedroom hall
Finished plastering the hall
Eight buckets of TopFinish in the hall
Finished the MP75 layer in the hall on the ground
Eleven buckets of course mud
Last preparations for plastering the hall
Last week of 2022
Repaired the stove
Started preparing to plaster the hall
Finished the kitchen stove ventilation
Appliances installed
New kitchen
Kitchenpreparations from Monday 14 until 20 November
Kitchen bench top
Kitchen appliances
Sheep week
Our ventilation got balanced
Ventilation caps were installed
Hedgehog housing
Took down the scaffold
Leakage at the chimney is fixed
Fruit harvest with surprise
Started plastering the kitchen
Southwest fence
The heat recovery ventilation system got installed
First holiday in three years
We got the staircase fence and reeling
Worked on the permanent fence
Started on the second vegetable bed.
Officially finished
We received the stairs
Final preparations for the stairs
Finished moving out
Sheep got cut
Staircase was measured
The old house is sold
Finished plastering the living room
Hobby room finished
Started working on the living room
Accepted a bid for the old house
House tours
Ready for selling the old house
Photos of the old house
Tidying up the old house
Plaster holiday
South wall finished
Called a real estate agent
Continued fixing the old house
Prepared for painting a wall in the old house
Southeast bedroom finished
Plastered the southeast bedroom
The second week of working from the new house
Finished the northeast bedroom and the bathroom
PVC on the first floor
Main bedroom painted
Defective floortiles
We reached two significant milestones this week
The first floor equalized
The heating system project stalled
Installation of the heating system has started
Finished the foundation of the heat pump
We received the rest of the tiles
This week wet room floors were cast in cement
The anhydrite floor
Ready for the floors
Started the last gypsum project
Finished ventilation in the washing room
Finished the window sills
Removed the temporary stairs
Finished the first floor
Finished the ceiling of the ground floor
Gypsum from living room to hall
Gypsum in the ceiling on the ground floor
Finished the first floor
Finished the ceiling of the hobby room
The gypsum plate swap
Worked on the ceiling
Started working on the ceiling
Another gypsum week
One stack of gypsum removed from the living room
The gypsum plates swap
Started on a new pile of gypsum plates
Our doorposts were mounted
Finished the ceiling of our bedroom
The north wall of the staircase
Our sheep arrived
Three sisters
This week it rained a lot
We finished the planks
Eleven planks to go
Good progress putting up red planks
Finished mounting the horizontal support beams
Mounted all fascia boards except the two last
Painting fascia boards
Fascia boards for the south wall
Started working on the south wall
The small details to finish the north and west wall
Created our mini dyke
Finished the west wall
Tangible progress on the west wall
The fiber modem was mounted
Started working on the west wall
Finished the vertical planks on the north wall
Finished half of the north wall
Snow for the first time at the new house
Replaced downpipes for the fourth time
Started putting up planks on the north wall
Tried to get Internet
Wastewater and Rainwater
Working on the exterior this week
We planted our apple trees
Moved a pile of floorboards
We are getting better at the gypsum plates
Electricity and water
Pipes and powerlines
Everything worked this week
Electrician started
Roof tiles and gutter finished
We got our temporary woodstove
Finished horizontal support beams on the east side
Rooftiles, Chimney, and examination of our utility cupboard.
Finished building the scaffold. Preparing for the roof tiles.
Finished the utility cupboard
Moving stuff
Working on the CAD drawing
We got our water well
This week, the temporary stairs arrived. We worked on the isolation and moving planks.
We finished a task from our house todo list!
Our house is delivered!
We received the container
Foundation finished, Prepared for the container.
The foundation frame finished, and we got the driveway.
Started on the foundation
The poles were delivered to the plot
The final paperwork is in place for starting the building
The tiller machine fluffed the surface
We received the planning
Waiting for the planning
Restoring the barrier tape
April 1 of 2020 - The fool’s day
Redesigning the utility room
More flags along the road
Started gardening at the plot
A visit to the heat pump specialist
Geo-Data marked up our plot
We are now owners of the plot
At the plot last day of February 2020
Our future house
Marije in the Shop
An Aquarelle Portrait of Tasha
Learning Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2
Learning Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
Received the construction drawings today
Old garden, 18 May 2019
March 17 2019
Our plan for the new house
Alyssa 28 December 2018
Maya 11 November 2018

I was born 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden. I grew up in the small village Vågdalen in north Sweden. 1989 I moved to Umeå to study Computer Science at University of Umeå. 1995 I moved to the Netherlands where I live in Almere not far from Amsterdam.

Here on this site I let you see my creations.

I create, that is my hobby.