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Below: With the wall starting to shape, every portion is carefully plastered. The wall is anchored at several points to the (concrete) walls of the house. All remaining spaces are either plastered, or sealed using building foam.
With the doorposts fixed solidly in the walls... Plaster - plates are put up against the ceiling in the dormer - windows. 
The 'glass wall' is finished by Paul and Hans, while Paul puts rulers around the windowframe. Yes, MDF again...
Above: Plastering again, and again... Above: Marion starts to paint! Above: While MDF is used again to finish off non - plasterable places...
Above: A lot of MDF-plating was used...

Below: Jan covers the last corners with...

Above: Final touch around 'the glass wall' 

Below: Marion scrapes the cement out off the grooves, before finishing off this wall...

Above: Balancing above the stairway...

Below: Shelley is sanding the MDF plating on the wall so it can be painted! 

Below: The floor was covered with (air)foil, preventing moist and - especially - noise!  Covered by laminated wood (mdf). 
All plumbing and cabling (heating, electricity, computer network, television) is covered by a wooden frame and mdf - plating...   While the woodwork is also an ideal place to fix electricity outlets and hide AC, television and network cabling behind...  A heating element will be installed in the large bedroom, directly under the main window. It has to be fixed on a strong wooden frame, again, covered with MDF plating.  
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This page was updated December 30, 2001