So, we are reusing the bricks from the former fire place and chimney in the new house. Last weekend we started the work collecting, sorting and hacking off the old mortar of the bricks. The idea is to use these as the floor in the wine cellar under the living room.
I did some calculations and came to the conclusion that we'll need between 800-850 bricks! 😅 Even though the work is quite heavy it was easier than expected to hack off the old mortar and we made good progress - about 40% done in less than a day.
Lily made the work of finding the best bricks into a treasure hunt and loved climbing around in the pile of bricks and debris.
Besides that it saves us some money to reuse the bricks I love the symbolism of building the new house on top of, or with parts of, the old one. It's a good feeling that some things from the old house becomes part of the new one as well.
If you want to help out, please consider the button below. All contributions are welcome and will help in making this house into the 2.0 version it deserves. There's a Swedish saying - "Många bäckar små gör en stor å" which translates to "Many small creeks make a large river".
