The papers are signed it is ours.
Since the last owner was an elderly man who died, the first step was to hire someone to move everything out. It was quite a scene watching big things coming down teeny stairs. Most of the things had to be dismantled. I knew this apartment was going to be a challenge, and that thought was confirmed. While the movers where moving the police came by to say that vehicles on the port are allowed until eleven in the morning. From that moment on it was a race against the clock.
The photo above is taken in the back room looking towards the port. The apartment has three floors we refer to them as: The first floor, the middle floor and the bedroom. In the photo you can see a ladder going up to the bedroom.
The first challenge we face will be creating stairs to connect the three floors.
That ladder is as bad as the stairs leading to the apartment. Most of the houses facing the port use to belong to fishermen, for that reason they are called: "Fishermen's houses": Long narrow houses, that have a ground floor for their wares, steep stairs to the second floor where there is usually a kitchen, a bath and a bedroom.
This is the kitchen, but we are not keeping it. It is in front of the only window, that cannot be made larger.
The apartment measures about 646 square feet.
These are the exterior stairs to the apartment. They are steep, straight up, narrow, and uneven.
It goes without saying they have to go.
The bathroom? A toilet under the stairs, and a shower on the other side.
This is the bedroom on the top floor.
More to come…
I put a video of the apartment on Facebook
If you would like to see the layout/draft of one of the floors, you can download the link below:
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