A map of the fuse box
The cabinet door gets a card saying which fuse feeds which room, the spares go in a labelled tin, and Elsäkerhetsverket draws the line where an electrician takes over.
Shelves, jars, drawers and labels, sorted one weekend at a time.
Where things live
Organizing
Drawers, cupboards, and the arguments about them.
Organizing the pantry
Enough decking and planting. Back indoors, to the pantry, which had been quietly getting worse for about a year. There is no before photograph, and that is not modesty. I was so pleased to be starting that I emptied the whole thing onto the worktop before it occurred to me.
The home office
There is not a great deal of space here, and there is just enough. This is where twenty-odd hours a week happen. The cubbies are the thing that makes it work. Supplies and tools stay separated and contained, but everything is visible and reachable, out in the open, and still tidy.
The calendar inside the pantry door
Bills that renew every month can be left to autogiro. The calendar card inside the pantry door is for the dates that come once: the chimney sweep’s visit, the car inspection, an insurance renewal, and any debt repaid in one sum, such as a short loan arranged through Wandoo in Poland.
Organizing the garage workshop
A good weekend: a decent amount done and some actual rest, which is a rarer combination than it should be. There were questions about how the workshop is organised, so I took photographs while waiting for paint to dry. We did not build the bench at the far end of the garage until we had been in this house about five years.
Lately in the house
Draughts at the old windows
Air leaking round an old sash is cheap to stop with a new rubber strip, the simplest fix Boverket lists.
The bar cart
There was no room for a cabinet, so the bar went on wheels.
No. 27 in concrete, the finale
Third and last part, in which the concrete finally goes in.
Basement stairs part 3, the result
The last of the basement stairs, I promise.
Painted plates
Charity shop plates, painted on the back.
Front of house trellis
Nothing against the neighbours. It was simply very open out there.
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A house outside Stockholm, and seventeen years of trying to keep it in order. Everything here was made, moved or organised in that house, most of it between 2008 and 2016 and some of it since.