ガレージのリノベーションは、昨日までの段階で床暖房を含め床の基礎が出来て、壁が出来て、窓が空いて、電気の工事が終わっている状態。最初の写真の右側に廊下に出るドアがあり、木が貼ってあるのが新しい窓。
This is how the garage is looking at the moment. The floor base including the underfloor heating has been done, the walls have been built, a new window hole has been made on the back wall (covered with a wooden panel right now), the electric work has been done (for ceiling lights, quite a few wall sockets, and a floor socket).
こちらの窓はもともとガレージのシャッターについている窓で、そのまま残しています。右側奥の壁の穴は、家の水道の元だそうなので、いざという時には使える状態で残しておく必要があるので外せるドアをつけるそうです。
These windows are on the shutter doors of the garage and we kept them, making new internal walls around them. The rectangle hole on the wall on the right side is for the valves on the main water supply pipe, which need to accessible. There will be small door made to cover this and it will be hidden within bookcases later.
廊下からドアを開けて入って右側の奥にボイラーが設置してあり、これは動かせないので、そのすぐ隣に壁を作り収納場所にし、ここに２つ目の冷蔵庫と収納棚をいれることに。ドアを入って左側にも右側より狭くしましたがやはり壁を作って収納に使います。
On the right side of the door from the corridor, there is a large cupboard with a boiler inside and you cannot move that, so we had a wall built next to the cupboard, we’ll put the second fridge/freezer in here and also some shelves or cupboard for storing food.
壁が乾いたら天井と壁塗りをしていただき、床材を貼っていただいて窓を入れたらとりあえず完成しますが、それから本棚を入れたり収納家具を入れる作業が残っていて、これが結構大変なのです。作り付けにしていただくつもりでいたのですが、費用が思っていたよりも随分高額になり、市販品でもかなりかかります。IKEAで購入すれば安くすむのですが 、IKEAの本棚は料理本は重いものがほとんどなので歪んでしまいますし、収納家具の奥行きだとどれも浅くて収納したいものが上手く収まらないのです。なので、ネットで何時間もかけて検索中。
とりあえず、きちんとお部屋の寸法を測って本棚や家具の大きさを決めて、見積もりをとってみます。
When the walls and ceiling are plastered and dried they will paint them, then the new window will be put in and the floor boards laid, and the room will be done. However, we’ll then need to furnish the room with book shelves/cases and storage furniture. We were planning to have them made though we knew that was going to be expensive but we are finding out that it is much more than we expected. The same for store-bought storage. IKEA storage will be inexpensive but we don’t like their bookcases – we used them for many years in Asia but the shelves bend with lots of heavy cookery books, and their storage furniture is too shallow for what I need to store. So I’ve been spending hours trying to find some suitable solution online.
We’ll measure the room properly, decide the measurements of bookshelves and storage furniture more in details and get quotes.