Building the staircase

This week Joseba started to mount the staircase. It's a cute, tailor-made, oak-wooden staircase.





We projected it open so that the light could come down from the big window upstairs to the bottom floor. Therefore Joseba is building it with no risers at all.





We also decided that we wanted it to be white - except the steps -, as the rest of the wood inside the house. But it is such a nice piece of wood that... I don't know. What do you think? You can give us you opinion voting at the survey that you'll find at the top-right corner of this blog.

The house also has a door

The main door of the house has also been put into place. It's made of solid pine-wood and it will have a stained glass window in the middle (where the white patch is now).

Installing concrete paving slabs

As Joseba was installing the windows and the electricians and the painters were working inside, Juantxo and his crew started to install the concrete paving slabs around the house.



The small wall sorrounding the terrace is still under construction. It's finish will also be white, as the rest of the house.







In the beginning we'd planned of having some pattern printed concrete on the terraces and on the sidewalks and so it was budgeted. But Juantxo has never been so fond of this kind of finish (he's had a bad experience in his own house) so he suggested that we visited a company he knew close to Vitoria where they had some building material leftovers from some other urbanization works. And there we found the concrete paving slabs that he's installing now on the sidewalks and the terraces.





We're glad that we changed because this slabs look clearly better than the stamped concrete. And they're quite cheaper as well!!!

For the rest of the patio and the carpark area we'll go for continuous deactivated concrete paving. But we'll talk about it in another moment.