VÄIKE MAJA MARTA TÄNAVAL...

Ühe vana puumaja restaureerimise lugu.
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Restoration of an old 1901 built wooden house.




05 May 2013

HIDE AND WRAP YOURSELF IN THE SONG

I have had so little to say during the last times.. But this is good so and I will open to post here only if I feel so. A song is playing through my days now, I share it here. 
Marta (The House) waits you to be a guest here, a friend, to accompany even for a short time a beautiful-miraculous journey for thouse, who can hear and see it..

ps. Tulips are slowly-slowly coming!!




 
She lifts her skirt up to her knees,
walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing.
I never learned to count my blessings,
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters.
I walk on down the hill,
through grass, grown tall and brown
and still its hard somehow to let go of my pain.
On past the busted back of that old and rusted Cadillac
that sinks into this field, collecting rain.
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged.

And of these cut-throat busted sunsets,
these cold and damp white mornings
I have grown weary.
If through my cracked and dusted dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
Lay your blouse across the chair,
let fall the flowers from from your hair
and kiss me with that country mouth, so plain.
Outside, the rain is tapping on the leaves,
to me it sounds like they're applauding us the the quiet love we made.
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged.

Well I looked my demons in the eyes,
laid bare my chest, said "Do your best, destroy me.
You see, I've been to hell and back so many times,
I must admit you kind of bore me."
There's a lot of things that can kill a man,
there's a lot of ways to die,
listen, some already did that walked beside me.
There's a lot of things I don't understand,
why so many people lie.
Its the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me.
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged.

21 January 2013

MAGICAL TRANSFORMATION

 All is possible, when you look at these pictures! 
Old chimney: restored, renewed. 
Old stove for wood - not very straight-standing, but much more cute so! 
A little bit paint, old materials happily re-used + a little "elbow-oil" as my brother-in-law in Italy sais... And voila!!! 
Welcome to stay here!!


Who could have believed, that this can be repaired again!


Bathroom is being built with re-used materials. These can later be easily re-used again, if we for some reason need to use the space some other way! Wallpaper makes this so pretty (look down for "AFTER PICS")!

In this shape was the "hot wall" (so do we say in estonian), slightly looking to the left :) Old paint was removed, original stoves oiled with lineseed oil.

Materials from the neighbour house (they used to be floor once)! Now we make cupboards from them: for the kitchenette and bathroom.


For sound isolation.




Time to rest. And enjoy the results of the work.