Ecology of consumption. Estate: B summer time many people are thinking about buying country house, where you can come on weekends to take a break from the bustle of the city, enjoy the singing of birds and the rustling of leaves.
In the summer, many people think about buying a country house, where they can come on weekends to take a break from the bustle of the city, enjoy the singing of birds and the rustling of leaves. What to choose – a house in a holiday village or in a village?
Having decided to buy their own mini-resort, asphalt children who have no experience of country life, as a rule, are inclined to buy a house in a dacha cooperative, not suspecting that the reasonable price hides the almost complete absence of infrastructure - shops, post office, pharmacy and relatively small area plot.
A much more optimal solution for those who dream of real estate far from large populated areas may be to buy an old village house. This is exactly what the heroes of our story did today - a young married couple who purchased an abandoned building in a village in eastern Poland, and, together with designers from the Ynox studio, turned it into a stylish, modern home.
Looking at this building before renovation, it is difficult to imagine that very soon it will turn into an oasis of relaxation and tranquility. It is clear that the house is in poor condition. It seems that he cannot withstand even strong winds.
This photo is the best confirmation of what talented architects and interior designers are capable of. As a result of the reconstruction of the exterior, which took only a few months, the frame of the building was strengthened, the façade was painted on all sides in a dark chestnut color, which perfectly matches the graphite tiles that decorated the updated roof, and the dilapidated windows were replaced with new ones.
U wooden houses a huge number of advantages. First of all, wood is a highly environmentally friendly material that allows oxygen to pass through, so in wooden buildings you can easily breathe and sleep soundly. Thanks to low thermal conductivity, you can save on heating, even in the most harsh winters you are not in danger of freezing in a wooden house. However, such houses also have their drawbacks, the main one of which is the weak resistance of wood to the effects of sun, rain and snow, as a result of which wooden houses fail much faster than buildings made of brick or concrete.
After overhaul A wonderful terrace has appeared at the entrance to the house, allowing you to enjoy the beauty of the surrounding nature, relax with a cup of coffee, and, in the summer, have breakfast in the fresh air.
The best days of this house are in the distant past. Flooring and the surface of the walls urgently required a quick replacement. Old, time-worn furniture had a depressing effect on the new owners and was immediately sent to a landfill.
This is what the kitchen looks like after the renovation. Modern furniture, colorful textiles, a bouquet of flowers and paintings on the walls completely changed the appearance of the room, creating great mood, conducive to spending as much time as possible with the family in this cozy kitchen.
The fashion for rustic interiors appeared several years ago and has firmly established itself in the world of design. At the request of the owners, the rooms of the house were decorated in this style. A little rough, but very cozy furniture, hammocks made of colored fabric, the floor, walls and ceiling are lined with boards. This interior is perfect for those who live for today, but do not deny themselves the pleasure from time to time to plunge into a slight nostalgia for a carefree childhood spent in the village.
Almost all home buyers in the village are faced with the need to completely renovate their bathroom. This house was no exception. It took a lot of time and effort to turn this room into a modern bathroom. The result of the designers' work exceeded all expectations.
The new owners of the house prefer warm and cozy tree. In this bathroom, as in all other rooms of the house, the floors and walls are made of light wood. In contrast are modern washing machine and a large shower with tray. published
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This is how it looked before the renovation... Rotten wooden frames, covered on the outside with double film, from the cold and wind... On the left is an old veranda with a sagging porch canopy...
For those who are about to make repairs in their home, it seems...
These were the windows and window sills.
We started putting the house in order from the foundation.
We open the corners of the house one by one, remove the rotten crown logs using a chainsaw, install the formwork, lay large stones and crushed stone, lay the reinforcement so that its ends remain open (for subsequent fastening it to the poured foundation), wrap the crown log with roofing felt and fill it with concrete. There you have it. finished cabinet.
And so on all four corners of the house and its middle, around the perimeter. Total - 8 cabinets. The process is labor-intensive and difficult, but the result is worth it... When the cabinets were finished, we made a pile around the entire perimeter. The continuation of external work was postponed until next summer. We started renovating the house internally...
This is a large room and let's start there. This is what it looked like before the renovation:
This is her right corner... and this, in the photo below, is the left corner. In the process of writing the topic, I will stick to these two corners...
First, we completely tore off all the layers of old wallpaper. The windows were still old, but we were already waiting for specialists to install plastic windows.
The old stove was dismantled...and the stove maker put together a new one.
AND THE RESULT DID NOT KEEP MYSELF WAITING LONG...I decided to close one window completely and make one big one - there will be a dining room there.
After installing the windows, the men began to dismantle the old floor, level the joists and place brick cabinets under them...
Then they laid the floors with old boards (they will last for a very long time, since they are thick and dry), and in places where there were rotten ones, they replaced them with new boards.
I installed a metal profile frame for the walls and ceiling... my mistake was that first you need to do the ceiling, and then the walls, and not vice versa. I found the technique for performing this work on the Internet, I won’t go into detail on it. If you If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer what I know...
Attaching the frame to the ceiling is much more difficult, my neck hurts...
When the metal frame is completely ready, you can sew gypsum boards onto it, preferably in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the ceiling! Don’t forget to spread out the electrical wiring and hide it in the corrugated channel, behind the profile, and install the distributor boxes in a place convenient for you.
In this photo you see wooden blocks, I screwed them on for later mounting of bookshelves. I attach exactly the same ones, only thinner, under the ceiling above the windows (for attaching cornices).
When all the walls and ceiling are covered with gypsum board, we putty with a putty knife and level all the joints between the sheets and the places where the screws are screwed in with this compound...
We lay along the corners and seams reinforced mesh for the strength of the joints, and after everything is dry, we sand it and apply a primer to the walls and ceiling.
And now the most interesting moment - wallpapering. I took white vinyl for the ceiling and with delicate roses for the walls...
When the wallpaper was dry, I mutually agreed
I invited a team of craftsmen to finish their work in this room on the windows (slopes and window sills).
After that, I glued the ceiling plinth, hung the shelves on the wall, put my flowers on the window sills, which the guys from the company had already installed for us...
The carpenter helped install the interior door, only later did I find out that it was upside down... (what difference does it make!) as long as it functions normally...
Doorways pasted a white corner on liquid nail. WITH right side The stove is new and heats all the rooms at once.
The firebox itself is located in the bathroom...
I laid underlayment on the subfloor, then fiberboard and linoleum. Then floor skirting boards I screwed it on with self-tapping screws and voila - beauty!!!
Here's the thing about this big room...
Some of you wanted to see more details about the concrete cabinets, so I added the details... So, the windows are installed, the house is sheathed on the outside flat slate and a pile was made around the house until next summer...
Now let's continue with exterior work, after the cold winter and spring...next summer.
When all the cabinets are ready, gradually, opening each side of the house from the rubble, we remove the rotten logs lower crown, dry - wrap with waterproofing,
we install the formwork, lay the reinforcement, connecting it to the ends of the reinforcement of the corner pedestals and fill it with concrete...
With mass undeniable advantages, wooden houses - expensive pleasure, so not everyone can build or buy such a “nest” for themselves. However, a house with “experience” can be inherited or purchased much cheaper, although its condition will be far from satisfactory. Reconstruction wooden house will make it suitable for comfortable stay and will return to its former appearance. And how to continue and how to finish will be advised by FORUMHOUSE users who have experience working with wood and are engaged in the reconstruction of their own households.
- Roof reconstruction
- Exterior decoration
Problem areas of wooden houses
Age of the bulk of secondary wooden houses housing stock is approaching half a century or has already exceeded this figure, which inevitably leads to deterioration of the main components. If errors were made during construction or technology was violated, then certain parts of the structure become completely unusable. It has great importance mode of operation - lived in the house permanently, or it is in winter period It was heated occasionally and serviced with the same frequency. Based on these conditions, the following work may be required:
- full or partial replacement foundation or its strengthening;
- replacement of lower crowns;
- full or partial replacement individual elements or large wall segments;
- repair or replacement roofing system;
- exterior finishing.
Even if upon initial inspection it seems that it is easier to demolish than to try to restore, do not despair, it is not for nothing that the leitmotif of the portal’s users is the proverb “The eyes are afraid, but they do.”
The lion's share of houses are visually in terrible condition, but in reality the logs are still strong, and the wood under the layers is beautiful, and reconstruction will take less time and money than new construction.
Reconstruction of an old wooden house: foundation
Old wooden houses are characterized by strip or columnar foundation. It is very rare if the tape is poured to the freezing depth; basically, this is a shallow depression, which over time, under the weight of the structure, has sunk considerably into the ground. The scope of work depends on the condition of the foundation. To evaluate it, a thorough inspection of the above-ground part, if any, is carried out, and buried elements are dug up and examined. User of the portal and part-time leader of a team involved in the repair and replacement of foundations wooden buildings, Igor Bekkerev, classified the possible scope of work.
Igor Bekkerev FORUMHOUSE member, foreman
The main task of the foundation–This is to transfer the load from the house to the ground. There are various foundation defects, there are also different ways repair This may be one type of work, or more often it is necessary to use a complex.
- Insulation of the foundation and blind area;
- Foundation waterproofing;
- Drainage works(sewage);
- Strengthening the foundation with an armored belt from above;
- Strengthening the foundation with an external armored belt;
- Replacing the foundation with hanging the structure or moving the structure;
- Leveling a foundation or leveling a building on a foundation.
To gain access to the foundation, the box is raised to the required height - it is hung, and less often it is moved. Used for lifting hydraulic jacks, the walls are raised one by one, or the entire box at once. Due to the ability of wood to withstand certain deformations when performed correctly, this operation does not compromise the integrity of the house. Based on the condition of the foundation and the proposed work, jacks are installed directly on the base ( strip foundation) or on the ground, on a previously placed thick board or other support. The number of jacks on the wall depends on the dimensions of the box; cuts are made under the jack in predetermined places.
Typically, a team of several people is hired for such work, but one skilled craftsman is able to lift wooden house. A forum member is lucky to have such a professional Arty-CooL who is engaged in reconstruction log house. in good condition, but it was decided to strengthen it, build it up and immediately fill in a new contour for the extension.
Arty-CooL FORUMHOUSE Member
Today we completed raising the house and replacing the lower crown, the foreman worked alone, I tried to help after work, although I probably distracted him more from work. When replacing the crown, the floor joists were simultaneously cut into the new crown. I finished it in 3 days, that’s how the masters work!
User's family Greens in such a situation, it was done without the involvement of craftsmen - the husband and sons were used as labor. The foundation was shallow, rubble, after hanging the box it was partially dismantled, a new wide strip was poured, and then the basement part was laid out with brick.
Grinata Member of FORUMHOUSE
The foundation there is rubble, very shallow, 40-50 cm, on the outer corner the house apparently began to sag, they took out the rubble from under the corner and replaced it facing bricks. When we took it out from there, it crumbled into small shards. The lower two crowns are just rubbish, we raked out part of the rubble, put up the formwork, poured it and laid the brickwork.
To strengthen the foundation with an external reinforced belt, a monolithic reinforced concrete strip is poured around the perimeter. The depth of the tape exceeds the depth of the old foundation by the size of the sand and gravel cushion, the average width is 40-50 cm. The surface of the old foundation is thoroughly cleaned, all flaking elements are removed. To increase adhesion with the new solution, the foundation is impregnated with a primer with high penetrating ability. Reinforcing pins are used as a binder, hammered into old foundation at a distance of 20–25 cm, in several rows. The pins are welded or tied to the new frame, and the solution is poured into the formwork in layers.
The replacement of the foundation is carried out in stages or all at once; in the first case, the old foundation is dismantled in parts, with new fragments gradually poured in. In the second case, everything is dismantled at once, a monolithic tape is poured, pillars are cast or piles are screwed. Forum user under nickname Andryukha052 offered phased replacement, but he preferred simultaneous, being afraid possible problems with foundation in the future.
Andryukha052 FORUMHOUSE Member
They suggested removing the logs between the pillars, digging trenches between the pillars and pouring a foundation there, laying masonry between the pillars, and laying the house on the masonry. Then remove the pillars, dig trenches under the pillars and fill - connect the masonry. I didn’t really like this idea; the foundation would consist of several sections. If there is any movement in the ground, everything may crack. Even if nothing happens, I thought it was better to play it safe. Therefore, the house was suspended on U-shaped supports, everything was removed at once, a single strip was poured and a single masonry was made.
Reconstruction of an old house: crowns
The lower crowns of wooden houses rot, gradually becoming saturated with moisture through the foundation. This occurs both due to the lack of a waterproofing layer and due to technology violations. Several forum members encountered a strange method of protecting a log from water, including val-lel.
val-lel FORUMHOUSE Member
My log house– Built in the 50s, the foundation strip actually had waterproofing between the log and the base, but! Along the first crown, the edges of this waterproofing were raised and attached to the log itself, and the segment between the foundation and the crown, with the edges of the waterproofing neatly nailed to it, was« carefully spanked» cement mortar along the entire first crown, both outside and inside, apparently so that the log does not move anywhere.
Replacement of crowns is usually carried out together with foundation work, when hanging the box. If possible, materials are used that are as close as possible to the original ones - logs or timber, some replace rotten parts brickwork. Arty-CooL used sleepers.
Arty-CooL
I installed the sleepers because I got them for free, and it’s easier to work with them (even though I didn’t do it), under the weight of the house they won’t go anywhere, and I’ll install galvanized studs into the foundation, and I’ll put the house on them. The cost of concrete by volume of sleepers will definitely be more expensive.
When choosing a material for replacing the crowns, they mainly start from the intended finishing layer - even the brick can be hidden under the siding. If you plan to leave the walls in their original form, the new segments should be as close as possible to the existing ones.
Waterproofing must be laid between the foundation and the new crowns, and the wood is pre-treated with an antiseptic.
Reconstruction of the walls of a wooden house
In addition to crowns, other parts of the structure may need to be replaced when the wood is exposed to moisture. Most often this happens with the upper crowns if the roof leaks and water accumulates in the insulation. It is also common for the wall around windows to get wet, although the wood may appear intact from the outside.
Etanol FORUMHOUSE Member
One point that would be worth paying attention to is the logs under the windows. If the windows are in winter« cried» , the logs could rot. Moreover, I saw such a thing that the log rotted from the inside, but from the outside it was completely good wood, rot was diagnosed only by drilling.
serwid FORUMHOUSE Member
This happened to me when I changed the windows in my house to plastic ones. After dismantling the old ones, I had to make inserts, since the log under the window had rotted and was not visible from the outside.
You can identify rot in outwardly normal wood by tapping it with the butt of an ax or a hammer - the rotten filling gives a dull sound, the whole log makes a ringing sound. As an alternative to drilling, an awl is used - it will not go more than a few millimeters into a normal tree; it will sink into a rotten one without resistance.
Replacing one element of a frame or part of a wall is carried out piece by piece - damaged ones are cut out, new ones are inserted, all cracks are necessarily sealed, the wood is pre-treated, as are the insertion points. To save time and money, one of the users did the following.
AlexeyTsvetkov FORUMHOUSE Member
I cut out all the rot from the inside with a chainsaw until« alive» wood, soaked it with an antiseptic 2 times and drove an antiseptic block inside, cut to size« hollows» and stapled with linen wool, then secured with 150 mm self-tapping screws on both sides.
Roof reconstruction
For many, the reconstruction of a wooden house is an opportunity to increase its area not only through an extension, but also by converting an old cold attic - diameter from 150 to 200 mm, with edged board 50x200 mm.
If there is no need for an attic, you can get by with revising the roofing system and replacing elements that have rotted due to leakage or condensation accumulation. Special attention pay attention to the output area chimney. In most cases, this is where leaks and damage to ceilings occur.
Considering that old slate does not add charm to the structure, it is usually replaced and insulation of the floors and under-roof space is usually required. When additional premises are added to the house on a rigid connection, old roof completely remodeled to make the entire building a new one.
Arty-CooL
I plan to add part of the house to the entire length, 2.5-3 meters wide, thereby making the house square, and there will be a single mansard roof with living quarters.
Exterior decoration
To save natural beauty wooden house, refuse to use siding and other facing materials. Walls that have darkened over the years, with various deposits on the surface, are put in order - they are cleaned with a brush and impregnated with special bleaching antiseptic compounds.
It is most convenient to carry out the treatment using a grinder and a special attachment - a brush with iron bristles. All dirt and deposits cannot be removed from wood in this way, but it can be significantly improved. appearance and really show the structure. In the future, you can use wood varnish or paint: tints will level the surface, and new elements will no longer attract attention. Like cladding, paints and varnishes are not only decorative, they effectively protect the surface from external influences.
Cozy country interior for pennies!
Background
My sister and I got the idea to buy a small country cottage area, when we were 22 and 25 years old, respectively. We are both passionate about decorating and we wanted to bring to life different interesting ideas, and also have a place where you can simply relax from the bustle of the city and enjoy being close to nature.
The place was not chosen by chance - overlooking an ancient pine forest, on the other side of which our grandparents once lived and with which our happy childhood is therefore associated.
View of the pine forest from the attic
Buying a house
The plots in this SNT are small - only 3 acres, but we were primarily interested not in the vegetable garden, but in the house. Therefore, we immediately rejected proposals with plots turned into one continuous bed.
... And finally, luck smiled at us - an elderly man responded to an ad written by hand - his old friend was selling a plot of land with a house. When we saw him (the house, not the man) - it was love at first sight! A plank house with an attic and an overgrown garden! We asked for the owner's phone number and immediately agreed on the purchase without haggling on the price (and it turned out to be much lower than we expected!). So we became his happy owners.
Transfiguration. Start
The house was made with love, but it was already very “neglected”. We wanted to breathe into it new life, making repairs and without spending large sums. We initially decided that this would be a “budget” renovation, and wanted to prove that beautiful and cozy does not mean expensive.
This is what the house looked like at the time of purchase and the start of cleaning: old wallpaper yellowed from time and stains on the roof, an old bed and gray chairs:
Spring bed USSR
The wall opposite the bed (let’s call this place so that it’s convenient to compare later 😉)
This is what the house looked like from the outside
I won’t show even more scary places on the ceiling - so as not to scare you))
Paragraph 1
So, my sister and I started the renovation by cleaning.
We raked out and sorted the trash that was stored in the shelves and “cabinets” - these were old clothes, jars, bottles, etc. We swept up trash, dirt, dust, and of course mouse poop everywhere (tying up our respiratory organs with scarves and wearing masks just in case). Some of the trash was taken to a landfill, some was used for rags, some was sent for washing, and some was left for use or decoration.
We immediately called this place “tea room” - because here, as you can see, small table with a couple of chairs for tea drinking and gorgeous view from the window (topmost photo of post)
Point 2
We washed everything with bleach water!
Literally EVERYTHING: floors, walls, ceilings and even furniture.
Point 3
Started painting old furniture in more “cheerful” colors. For example, it was decided to make the bed white.
Acrylic paint was used. And for painting window frames We used cheap alkyd enamel.
Painting the bed
Chairs - lavender!
The paint emphasized the structure of the wood
Gradually, a unique “concept” for this mini-room developed - and we called it “lavender tea room”.
I decided to paint one of the doors here like this:
I write in English “lavender tea room”
By the way, we called the main room in the attic “blue bedroom.” It was decided to use a warm, joyful shade of sky blue and, of course, white for combination (association with white clouds in a blue sky).
Point 4
The plywood on the ceiling in places where there were leaks was replaced with new
Point 5
They tore off old wallpaper from the walls and some paper from the ceiling. We washed the walls again with chlorine, dried them and started wallpapering.
The wallpaper for the main wall of the bedroom was white with a blue flower
“Feodosia” - 200 rub./roll
Blue wallpaper (for combination) - 80 RUR/roll
Wallpaper for the ceiling - free (we found old ones in the barn and pasted them on the wrong side)
View from the bedroom to the tea room
Let's roll it into new wallpaper..
Let's continue...
It's not easy to paste the ceiling - your hands get numb, but then your hand gets full)
Meanwhile, the walls in the tea room are covered with the remnants of wallpaper stored at home (pink), and the lilac ones were bought for 70 rubles per roll in the store. The “cabinet” door is painted pink.
I'm at the teahouse
Well, you’re probably tired of looking at phone photos of our “flops” and you want to see what came of it all?
We specially arranged a “photo shoot” of the resulting interior using a camera:
Lavender tea room
Teahouse
And now the blue bedroom.
The photos are arranged as if we were turning to the right:
Blue bedroom
Bedroom
Table by the window
Shelves and a suitcase for storing linen (decorated by hand)
Sofa opposite the bed
View from the bedroom to the tea room
blue bedroom
And the outside of the house now looks like this (we painted it mint and pink - we tinted it ourselves).
They painted with rollers, using a folding ladder, and leaned out of the windows to paint where the ladder didn’t reach:
House in autumn:
And here my sister Lyalya and I are in the garden near the house. The peony bush has not yet bloomed, but has already grown - we made a “holder” for it from an old chair with a hole in the seat (which we simply tore off), found in the attic of my grandmother’s village.
My story ends, but the story of the transformation of the house does not. The plans are to “furnish” the first floor. We will definitely share the result with you!
We are slowly organizing the garden: we dream of a lawn, flowers, a fence and garden furniture.
Thanks everyone for your attention! We hope that we have inspired at least someone else to be creative and create))
From our readers it proves that even abandoned country house can turn into a favorite place for a family vacation.
Natalya and her husband Grigory bought a plot of land with an old hut in the village of Klinok, Chervensky district, in the summer of 2014. The village is located next to the Volma fish farm, surrounded by picturesque nature: surrounded by lakes, fields and forests.
This is what the old house looked like
The desire to buy a house in the village appeared a long time ago. Before this family for a long time shared her parents' house with her husband's sister. And then luck smiled on them: a plot of land was being sold down the street. Having decided that this opportunity should not be missed, Natalya and Grigory, having calculated their finances, purchased it.
“The acquisition was not in the best condition: rickety gates and fences, a yard overgrown with weeds, a dilapidated barn,” says Natalya.
The house had high thresholds, creaking and sagging floors, ten layers of wallpaper behind which crowds of insects swarmed, and moss-covered slate on the roof. The house itself was divided into two large rooms with a stove in the center.
Dismantling an old barn The first thing they did was demolish the barn and the outbuilding that served as a canopy. We cleaned the house. They took out the excess. We also did cleaning work on the site in our free time. By this time I was already retired, so I stayed at the dacha all summer and tended to the garden. My husband, Grigory, son Alexey and daughter Olga with their family came for the weekend. Everyone contributed to the arrangement of the house.
They decided to completely demolish the barn; instead, they built a woodshed, in which we store firewood, boards and various things that can be useful on the farm.
In 2015, the “restoration” continued. The area was surrounded by a metal profile fence. An extension was made from blocks, 6x6 meters, to the house from the side of the garden, where the senets were located. Now there is a kitchen, pantry and hallway. The inside of the extension was lined with clapboard. The old slate was replaced with a new one.
They built behind the trash shed Summer shower: a small cabin, covered with oilcloth, with a large barrel on top (now it has been redone, instead of oilcloth they surrounded the cabin cellular polycarbonate). The water heats up during the day and you can rinse off in the evening. Nearby they built a small building with two compartments: in one there is a toilet, in the second there is a shed in which everything necessary for the garden is stored.
Over time, water was supplied and sewerage was installed, and a 6x2 meter veranda was made. There is now a toilet there, just like in the city.
Inside the old part of the house, the floor was re-laid, the walls were lined with clapboard, new windows were installed, and the stove was redone.
The outside of the house was insulated and covered with siding.
The garden is always in order and the beds constantly delight the family with a good harvest.
For the family, the dacha became nice place, where you can have a great time and relax from the bustle of the city.
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