The Hall
Welcome, come in!
After you have taken the five steps up through the porch and walked through the old glass doors, you come into our hall. Quick, look to your left! The two walls were painted a lovely bird-eggish blue just yesterday. The original idea was to have a few hints of clouds up near the ceiling, to give a background for the lamp, but, well. We’ll see now. Now that I’ve drawn your attention to the lamp I might as well remind you of the fact that until last June the window was a bathroom window and the lamp was attached to the bathroom ceiling. Now the ceiling is just too high to be bothered with.
Why, you may ask. Well that is because when we moved in we desperately needed some storage space as the attic was made into our master bedroom, and a bigger bathroom with a sauna was a kind of necessity, too. So we had to have the basement dug lower and build the bathing facilities and storage space there, leaving us with one last problem: the stairs. There were really only two options position-wise, the other in a livingroom corner (with a result of a hole the size of at least one by three meters in front of the window) and the other where shower was. The latter option was structurally very difficult (the plinth was taken in a bit a few years ago when it was reinforced) but made much more sense. We ended up with a very very very steep staircase which wonderfully doubles as a laundry chute.
The rest of the walls will also be painted blue some day. Until then the first look in the house is quite yellow. There are no storage units for outdoor gear, which is not a very big deal in the summertime, but in the winter the loads of heavy coats and scarves and hats and mittens add to the unique charm of our interior decoration. The grown-ups’ jackets, purses and apparently some jeans are hung on an old wall mounted coat rack that must have been in the house forever. Gloves, mittens, scarves and such, as well as candles, shopping bags, personal secret boxes that belong to a seven-year-old, keys, old membership cards, extra rolls of shoe laces and safety reflectors are stored in the white chest of drawers. The black stool doubles as a seat and a storage for – lo and behold – gloves, mittens, scarves and such.
There is further hidden storage space behind the doors. This rack is for kids’ jackets, outdoor pants, overalls and rain gear. If you take a careful look you can see that there is yet another hidden rack lower down the wall behind the overall legs! That’s for hanging a bag full of a two-year-old’s billions of gloves, mittens, scarves, hats and other woolly accessories. And my bags.
