tuinstruinen

a dream did not come true

2010-02-10T01:24:00.000-08:00

son woke up this morning and told me he had a lovely dream. the tree in the garden was full of pink flowers and he was rowing the boat in his t-shirt. poor boy!

when we opend the curtains there was no pink tree. but a white world again. winter doesnot want to leave us and we start all over again. slippery streets, snowboots, cleaning the pavement. the gouverment has a huge problem because there is no 'salt' anymore to scatter on our (high) ways. traffic jams and other nuisance.

we also see the lovely landscape and the garden is a black and white fairy tale. son has to wait a litle while for the tree to get pink flowers.

to get some sort of spring feeling we bring the bulbs into the house and enjoy a bit of springseason in the windowsill.

how not to sell a house

2010-02-01T07:15:00.000-08:00

with a good friend I had a conversation about piles. it seems that they just grow by themselves. everytime I try to get rit of them they show up again one day later on a different (or the same) spot. it is hopeless to get rit of them definitly.

I'm quiet sure we will never sell our house with all these piles popping up in pictures. not that we have plans on moving place but I wish I once had a clean and pileless house for a day.....

is this my backyard..... yes it is!

2010-01-14T07:41:00.000-08:00

we are still in wintery atmospheres in holland. last weekend the ice was finally thick enough to skate. and so we could enjoy this event from our back yard.

with a lot of 'snowplows' we made the ice free of snow (which kept falling and falling all day long) and we had a lovely time. the whole neighbourhood met on the ice. some made hot chocolate, others came with gluhwein, warm tea or soup.

the landing stage and the chairs on the ice made a nice meeting point. the kids had fun with games (speed run, ice hockey) and chasing each other.

the cat, the birds and the winter... to be continued

2010-01-06T02:43:00.000-08:00

what we expected all the time has happened! saar has been hunting at night over the ice (her hunting grounds have grown bigger and more attractive with all this ice). and an innocent crake deep asleep was her victim. we don't know how she managed but she took the crake through her cat door into the living.
and that is how we found her.

she still does look as in a deep innocent sleep.... but we know better! stupid cat!

winter birds

2010-01-02T08:11:00.001-08:00

in my former blogpost I wrote about the oliebol I gave to the hungry birds in the garden. this fat food is not so healthy for birds as well. so I will stick to the more prefered bird food in winter: peanuts.

lots of little birds are visiting the garden on their search for a nice snack. we see robins, all sorts of titmouse and wren. off course their are other species as well but I'm not so good in all these bird names.

they are very brave (and I asume very hungry) because they keep visiting the garden although cat Saar is on a hunt.....

I will not show a picture of the little bird that we found under our dinner table (or what was left of it).

new years day left overs

2010-01-02T07:44:00.000-08:00

we made it into 2010. this time of year the garden is really into hibernation and all we can do is waiting for the first bulbs to show up. in a month I expect the little white snowdrops. on my round in the garden on January 1 this is what I found:

a new collection of my son; fireworks left overs (to build little doll huts in summer).

the drinks we didnot drink (one bottle of champagne has to wait for another perfect occassion).

and an 'oliebol' which I've thrown for the birds. if they like it I have plenty more for them to come, we cannot see and eat any oliebol anymore......
Happy 2010 to all!

more snow, and more and more and more....

2009-12-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

did we think we had lots of snow on thursdaymorning? that was peanuts compared to the snowfall on sunday. when we woke up today it was snowing just a bit but during the morning it turned into a real snow-show.

the thick snowflakes and a good crispy snowpack were unresitable and we had to go out. dressed up in our wintersports outfit we went for a long winterwalk to friends for a warm coffee. we took the route through parks and the 'edge' of the town and had the feeling we were out there on our own, throwing snowballs and having fun.

cat saar looked very surprised and didnot understand why the white fluffy stuff was so cold. but she also liked to play. hesitating for the nice spot near the heater or being outside for a cold adventure.

walking back from our coffee break (which turned into a lunchbreak and finished it off with a glass of wine as well) we bumped into our neigbourhood x'mas drink festive. which also looked perfect in the snow and we had another 'gluhwein' before we finally returned home.....

with the taste of a yummie day and a snowflake.... or two!

X'mas excitement

2009-12-17T12:18:00.000-08:00

bought the x'mas tree yesterday and decorated it together with son in the afternoon, while we loudly sang with the X'mas toppers. then we went to the school x'mas play in the evening. woke up this morning and immediatly I recognized the silence of a good snow deck (yes... snow makes the world silent!). I opened the curtains and YES YES YES... how much more x'mas can it get?

on my slippers trying to catch some of the fairy-tale atmosphere (which is a mission impossible for me at 7.30 in the morning when it is freezing cold.

son was doing better, he was dressed in 2 minutes and made 2 snowmen before he went to school's x'mas breakfast. it is a pity there is no picture of those two snowguys but I loved the action at 7.30......

where ever I lay my head II

2009-12-10T07:36:00.000-08:00

the follow up of the items that always find a new spot in my house to make it my home. I used to move around very often. since husband and son are around it has not changed much lately. but in all the place where I have lived these ones had a (prominent) place and still have:

my orange lamp in my bedroom, a gift from a friend who disappeared out of my life a long time ago, funny that this gift is still in my life and bedroom.

my 'african pumpkin', bought on a 3 month trip in west-africa and always in use for my cheap jewelry collection.

the indian stainless steel kitchentools pot bought on my trip to india a long time ago; once this one is on my kitchen sink I can cook and the kitchen is mine.

and my really favourite; the red 'dish' lamp which I probably always will keep, although the arm gets 'lazy' and husbands gets annoyed by this old lamp.

where ever I go.....

2009-12-06T12:27:00.001-08:00

I was secretly planning to stop with my blog and just let it go. But a good friend had a lovely blogpost about items you always take with you from home to home. Everyone has some of these specialities. When I started to look around me (at first I thought I had non) the list became longer and longer and longer and longer...

I have my 'box', found it long time ago, don't even no where and when exactly. But always following me, containing letters (from that long time ago we used to send letters to beloved ones).

I have my relic kitsch, with maria's, ganeshes and budha's. I always find a place for my relic shrine somewhere in the house. Don't know why it is in my toilet this time??

And there is my first (and last) piece of crafting. Two little ottoman. Made them completly by hand myself (copied them from an old one I saw at someone elses place). Right now they are looking old (or worn out is a better word) themselfs and the cat has found them a lovely subject to sharpen her nails. but they will always come with me to another place.

The list is longer, so there will be a follow up, keep you posted!

art en hard work

2009-10-12T06:52:00.000-07:00

the tree in the former post ended up as a beautiful pile of blocks for the wood fire. husband had a few hours of hard work (and pain in his arms and shoulders the day after). but right now we have this lovely pile. everytime I open the front door I bump into our garden art. Happily it will last at least a year before we can use the wood blocks.....

more contribution to climate change

2009-10-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

in our front garden, yes there is a front garden and I tell you this: in Holland a front garden is a rare thing. if you find your self lucky with a garden it is most of time stampsize big and only on the backside of the house. from the frontside eg. the frontdoor you step immediatly into the public zone of the pavement. we are lucky ones with even a ten meter deep front garden zone which allows us a bit more privacy and the feeling of owning 'land'. well, the front garden has even trees and this summer we (or the neighbour) discovered a sick tree.
last week they came with hugh saws and machine to take down the sick one. we didnot like it, it was our (or the neigbours) tree but we had to listen to what the gardener said. with the first autumn storm the tree could end up on a car, or roof or worse.... a person! in the morning before we all had to leave for school, work and other fun related stuff, the gardener started.

and when we came home in the afternoon it was so empty and so light in the front. and the tree didnot look sick at the inside after all. no sick and weak wood but a firm and healthy trunk. we might have enough wood for the wood burner to realise more warm summers. we can contribute to the climate change more then we want if we have to finish this off for the end of the winter....

ps. lots of work for the husband to get it all the right size for the burner, keep you posted....

contribution to climate change

2009-09-28T13:20:00.000-07:00

last weekend we had still a lovely indian summer with loads of sun and warmth. but right now the evenings and nights gets a bit crispy and cold so we cannot sit outside uptill late. saturday night (Mr. was gone for a climbing-biking weekend) the 8 year old and me were home together. we both look forward to this spare weekends with just the two of us (not that we want the Mr. not to be with us). but we are always planning a 'pizza in front of television'dinner' and hire a nice kids movie (the movie 'bolt' is very much recommended).
so we did and the crispy evening made us start the wood heater to make it even more 'gezellig' (= cosy). at those moments I don't mind the cold evenings and nights that will be here for the next 6 months. but only on those moments.....

other forms and colors: go go's

2009-09-22T13:56:00.001-07:00

suddenly they are all out there. somebody in a marketing office had an idea and another one said "oh well, we can just give it a try". And since one week the life of the 8 year old is all about strange plastic creatures in horrible colors and forms. where I get fun and satisfaction from forms and colors in my garden, my son is excited about forms and colors of these go go's. So we need to do shopping in the nearby supermarket, every 10 euro's spent is one go go. groups of boys are standing near the supermarket entrance on go go hunt and drive all the people in and around the shop grazy: "may I have you go go's please?" and as you can guess: there must be one golden go go out there.

ps. the network scales of the eight year old are stunning. family, neighbours, friends of us are all submitted to do their shopping in the nearby supermarket.
ps. I really need a better camera.....

Life & Garden impersonation

2009-09-21T07:58:00.000-07:00

lovely husband and father inlaw have done a great project in the garden lately. they made me a garden cabinet. all the garden equipment has found a lovely home and is not going around anymore in the kitchen or just laying around in open and wet places in the garden. I feel like a real Life & Garden gardener with a cabinet like this. especially because the inlaw put a lock on it, which is in the inlaw family for more the many years (great grandpa seems to have made it himself). with the cabinet in nordic yellow and a lock which can hold a horse, my trimmer is savely locked away.

itsy pitsy......

2009-09-16T02:08:00.000-07:00

every one with a garden must recognize this; in autumn you cannot go around in the garden without getting a spiderweb in your face or hair. everywhere you go you feel sticky thread and suddenly you feel a creapy crawly spider running down your neck into a place you don't want spiders to be.

their webs are beautiful with this low sun in this time of year but hard to get on picture (with my camera....!). an autumn garden with spiderwebs, low sunbeams and leaves turning each color is (almost) more beautiful then a summer garden filled with hundreds of flowers. the only real reason I don't like the autumn season is that I realise it will be followed by a wet and dark and cold winter......

still going strong

2009-09-16T01:57:00.000-07:00

as the end of season really has set (from one day to the other the leaves decided it is time to fall), we have some parts of the garden which refuse to give in. some flowers are at their best at this time of year. but also the little vegetable garden is not done yet. the tomato plants keep giving yummie sweet tomatoes for months now and everyday we can pick some more. temperature is still fine enough for tomatoe growing I guess.

end of season

2009-09-09T01:48:00.000-07:00

although we still have warm days (and nights!) it seems Holland is making up for autumn. yesterday I saw in 15 minutes from home to work the 'army of nature control'. control over the looks nature can have. someone was out there to cut all the reed at the waterfront; so our garden suddenly looks very naked. I saw someone in a 'steam car' cleaning the pavement. have no clue why we need that because in a few weeks the streets will be covered with leaves. and saying that: I bumped into someone who was going around with a 'leave blower'. I could only discover a few so the guy was maybe excercising for the big autumn pile arriving soon?

as said: we have some sort of indian summer going on but the signs that it is really end of season show: the boat is not being used and is dropped in a corner of the terras, the most plants start to turn brownish and flowers stop blooming over and over again.
Some won't give up and they are queen of the garden at the moment....

big surprise

2009-08-29T03:59:00.000-07:00

back from a lovely (long) holiday. not really into the blogging mood right now. would love to keep the holiday mode as long as I can, and computers and blogs don't belong there.
but when we came home and we took a glimpse in the garden (which always looks like a rain forest after 4 weeks 'let it grow') we had the big suprise. the sunflower took her chance and made some meters while we were out. is this typically Dutch to have such tall sunflowers?

more drizzling

2009-07-23T01:20:00.000-07:00

after a whole long spring and part of the summer being out we are now living inside again. even the 'knuffels' are in the window-sill looking for a dry moment.

best souvenir ever

2009-07-17T07:53:00.000-07:00

almost two years ago the three of us went all the way to the other side of the world to visit a very good (and yet very missed) friend and her family. we had a lovely time, good talks and big giggles. and off course at the end of the visit bitter tears because it is not fair we live our lifes so far from each other. during the visit down under we saw the most ugly, of the horrible kind, souvenirs. but one of the last days we visited an 'art shop' in Daylesford where I discovered our little fellow. and that was the souvenir I had been looking for! after a too long flight home we unpacked the guy (we are sure it is a male) and released him in our garden where he immediatly found a favourite spot. and ever since I start the day with a glimpse, out of my bedroom window, of far down under in my own garden! And at those moments my friend is not that far and I do a telepathically 'smile and wave'......

ps. sorry for the lousy picture (a better camera is on its way!)

rain and refreshment

2009-07-12T04:02:00.000-07:00

after weeks of dry and warm weather, we are now unhappy looking outside to drizling drops along the windows. for the garden it is a refreshment and all the plants look quiet happy. they were really thirsty.

husband also thougth about the 'indoor'green friends and put them on the terrace to get fresh leaves. it depends on the focus; it can be a tropical garden or a drizling Dutch Sunday.....

forms

2009-07-12T03:52:00.000-07:00

I do not understand exactly why kids always draw a flower with a hearth in the middle and some leaves grouped around it. there are not many flowers which look like a kids idea of a flower. when I look around in the garden I can hardly discover a 'normal' flower:

well... okay then, there is a kids flower in the garden:

and it is a beautiful one and my favorite!

dead little creatures

2009-07-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

as I wrote earlier, our cat Saar is a true co-user of the garden space and beyond. it is paradise for her. she is queen of the neighbourhood and has hardly any enemies. there is just one big male cat; when he is around she escapes inside and expects us to send the guy away (which we won't be doing, we think she has to be strong enough to face him as well).
in daytimes cat Saar can look so quiet and peaceful and lazy but at nights she just turns into a murderer. in the morning we see in the kitchen or on the carpet (and these days on the grass) what she has left for us as her trophees. this morning I found two of them in the grass, hopefully not a couple with a nest full of little ones left behind.

mice we can handle (they fit in the carbage bin). a few days ago she almost caught a duck. so we are prepared to find a dead heron or goose one morning....

more hide and seek

2009-07-01T00:50:00.000-07:00

wednesday morning and the garden door is open. I'm trying to get some 'order' in my household after too many days of running for work and birthday parties (four in one weekend). then I do hear a strange sniffing in the garden. is it my cat that has been eating from something that makes her sick, is it a duck that got lost and is strolling in the shrubs. on my search (excitement at 9.30 in the morning...)

I find two hedgehogs sniffing loud to each other. is this a matter of territory quarrel or has this something to do with mating? I let them; and they leave me behind wondering why hedgehogs show up in day time. I only know these guys from times very late in the evening or very early on the morning (and that is why I don't see them that often!)

one two three.. in 10 minutes

2009-06-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

one of the great pleasures is the waterpart that borders our garden. in winter we ice skate and right now, when it is tropical (to the Dutch standard), we enjoy the waterfront in many ways. I carry around about 30 watering-cans a day for my daily work out. and the 8 year old is on the water in his rowing boat.

today we tried the fishing-rod. we never tried it before (it was a present for my son's birthday in March) because we (mum and son) are scared for the huge fish that swim around. but today husband took the rod (he is not afraid he catches a 40 cm tall fish and even better: he knows how to get them off the hook). I was surprised the two men caught 3 (three!) little fish in 10 minutes. what an excitement.

ps. we released them all after half a minute on the hook! and we are not even sure we caught the same fish 3 times in a row!

cat in the garden

2009-06-28T03:07:00.001-07:00

cat Saar loves this time of year where she is queen of the garden. she has so many spots were she can go ......

when it is too hot....

or a where the last sunbeams come in the evening....

and just to roll and be happy with the space and warmth of the tiles!

African temperatures

2009-06-28T02:52:00.000-07:00

about 20 years ago I travelled in West Africa. I still remember the humidity and the hot weather. one move and pearls of sweat were on my forehead. in those three months I also bought fabrics. I couldnot choose between all the colourful paterns and brought home several prints. I never knew what to do with thoose fabrics, they all were out of place in our cold and grey country.

a few years ago I had a 'brilliant' idea and made cushion covers for the garden. we use this cushions only when it is warm and summer and suddeny the colours of the fabric didnot look out of place anymore.

sorry, aroma is not included

2009-06-15T11:10:00.000-07:00

snuff snuff snuff.... what a lovely odour around my nose. it is hard to tell which flower smells the most. happily for me they all spread their aroma at different times of the day.

the rose smells during the day with a very delicate sweet scent.

the jasmine spreads her odour at the end of the day when the sun sets with her last sunbeam.

and the 'kamperfoelie' (english name unknown) smells late at night at the very end of the day when the night falls. sorry: I havenot found the button in my blog program to include aroma's!

Endive lovers

2009-06-11T10:48:00.000-07:00

my son is (with his 8 years) too 'grown up' for the sand pit in our garden. last year we took out all the sand and carried 12 bags of garden soil into garden. as we don't have a back entance we had to take it all through the house (hallway, living, kitchen) to fill the pit again. we did some experiments with tomatoes, lettice and carrots. which was a great succes. this year we wanted to improve our farmer skills and we started with the home growing of seeds in little pots in front of the bedroom window. soon enough we had little sprouts of carrot, tomato, paprika and endive. it soon became quiet packed in the little sandpit. and when the neighboor (who is even more addicted to home garden vegetable growing) donated 4 potatoes we had reached our limitation. last week we shared the endive with friends and family. We had ten crops ready to be eaten at the same time. At bit too much even for endive lovers. So next year we have to practise to spread the moment of the harvest.....

the last crop is waiting for Dutch endive stampot;

here is the recipe of Dutch stampot for endive lovers: peel enough potatoes (depending on the size of the family and appetite). boil them and make mash potatoes with milk and butter. In the meantime fry small pieces of bacon crisp and slice the endive in small bits. in the end you stir the crisp bacon and the endive into the mash potatoes and leave on the stove for another 5 minutes to soften the endive. lovely with loads of apple sauce and a sausage (a recipe for Dutch apple sauce will follow another time, promise).

hide and seek

2009-06-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

right near our 'landingstage' in between the reed we do have a poor brave mum. she is sitting on her nest for weeks now and we all are having a daily glimpse at here to see if the baby's are there yet. she never leaves her spot (or to be more precise: she is always there when we do peek around the corner). even when we had an enormous thunderstorm a week ago and the garden chairs rolled through the garden. she survived and hold to her instinct ánd her eggs. it is her second breed this season and her first sprouts have now been send away by dad to make their own living and the parents have all the time available for the new arrivals. it is a lovely hidden spot. they try to keep their spot as secret as they can. at the moment the egg shells break and screams for food can be heard the heron is not far away and for sure he will minimalise the new family! poor mum, hide and seek is not a funny game for you and the kids.... and why has nature given your babies such an ugly, prominent red fluffy head?

adolesence grass

2009-06-05T12:53:00.000-07:00

One of the little changes I made in the little garden was taking away a not so useful path from the 'main terrace' upto the 'back terrace' at the waterfront. It was crossing our four square meters of 'lawn' and it looked so silly that finally this winter I had the energy to take this stone path away. We did a few months with just a stripe of Dutch clay in the middle of the green (cat Saar loved to take that route before entering the house taking the mud straight onto the couch), when finally it became warm enough to do the miracle with the grass seeds. After two weeks we had this little fellows saying 'hello, we're ready!' and they left me with the thought 'this will never turn out into grown up grass'.
And now in middle of summer we have a zone that looks like a green landingstripe in the middle of the garden. The new born grass is in the puberty fase and is growing much harder and greener then the middle aged green.

collectors items

2009-06-02T13:36:00.000-07:00

my son is one of the collectors in the house. where ever he can lay his hands on he needs to take it home and store it. so we do have containers filled with his drawings (from his years in nursery upto his class right now). we do have pots filled with chestnuts, stones and other treasures. the front garden is a storage place for sticks, old bricks and dakpannen (for the hut that is needed to be build once).
as you can imagine is a trip (or even worse: a holiday) to the beach a temptation. we have been to Britanny in May holiday for four years in a row, so we had to be strict at the moment of moving back home. only the 'really beautiful' ones earned a place in the back of the car. spreading a 'lovely' sea smell during the return trip home.... (does it need more explanation; most of the trips were made with high temperatures). at home we had to find glass pots and cans to store the collection of shells, stones and other treasures. my favorites are the glass bits that became polished by the waves on the shore.

right now the shells find their way into the spots of the garden where I have no clue what can grow there ( I discover many of this spots). it is time we go to the sea again to get some more......

landing stage

2009-05-26T10:23:00.000-07:00

Every time when I do some (little) changes to my little garden and when there is a shovel involved, I dig up stones and bricks. I don't know what the former owners of the house have done but there are more bricks in my garden then in the whole house. Last time when I was piling up all the stones I found in a square meter underground I saw this remarkable one. I knew it was a sign. I have been asking my beloved husband for a landing stage (well, just a little one) for ages so my son can use his rowing boat a bit more easily. Without a landing stage we had to crawl into the neighboors garden with a boat on our neck. And the neigboor is a very friendly man but I felt quiet uncomfortable sneaking into his garden with the boat followed by some kids. To be short: we have our landing stage and to mark it I used this old brick with an anker. It looks quiet happy on this spot, much better then it was underground.

a happy bunch

2009-05-26T10:14:00.000-07:00

Look at this bunch of flowers: these peonies are so over the top, in size and in color in everything. I love them. They chear up my home and my mind. Everytime I look at them I think what an absolutly pretentios fellows they are, but all together they make a happy bunch in my home!

homelless insects

2009-04-24T01:46:00.000-07:00

I made a lovely shelter for insects to survive the cold Dutch winter. All sorts of creapy crawlies could find a warm winter home in here. My dear husband who is of the 'clear it all out' kind made blocks for the hearth and also chopped this shelter into blocks. It might become a little bit too hot for my little friends on a certain moment....

illegal chestnut growing

2009-04-24T01:37:00.000-07:00

last week the neighboor asked if I was growing something for a smoke. I didnot got it clearly but when I came home a couple of hours later I think she saw this lovely chestnut 'start ups' as something illegal near my frontdoor. The chestnut collection of my son turned into a mini chestnut forest.....

vergeet mij niet.....!

2009-04-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

en ja hoor, alles bloeit weer eens tegelijk: de prunus met de veel te overdadige roze bloesem, alle tulpen, de viooltjes, de clematis. blijft er nog wat over voor de rest van het jaar? moet dat nu allemaal tegelijk? Ja dat moet, ieder jaar weer.

toch snap ik ieder voorjaar wel waarom die kleine, maar prachtige bloempjes vergeet-me-nietjes heten. in die schreeuwerige overdaad mag je dit toch niet over het hoofd zien? Vergeet mij niet..vergeet mij niet....!

lekker snoeien

2009-03-21T14:04:00.000-07:00

Knip knip knip.... auw! Bij het afsnoeien van een paar forsythia takken voor binnen even niet opgelet en hup een knip in de hand. Het bloeden wilde niet echt stoppen en helaas de rest van de prachtige zondagmiddag bij de EHBO gezeten voor een hechting en een prik. Onhandig is zeker het juiste woord in dit geval! De forsythia bloeit trouwens prachtig nu....

lente tuintje

2009-03-10T01:34:00.000-07:00

Omdat het zo vreselijk lang duurt voordat de echte lente in de tuin doorbreekt, (ik kijk al weken de kopjes van de bollen uit de grond!), heb ik voor de schooltractatie van joris een eigen lentetuintje gemaakt. Muffins verkleed als graspol met kever en een lollie vermomd als kleurig bloempje. Als je daar op de verjaardag van je kind niet vrolijk van wordt!

2008-10-14T12:23:00.001-07:00

dit is waar het eigenlijk om gaat, omringd door groen en bloemen, de poes en krant erbij! zonnetje doet de rest...

tuinstruinen

2008-07-14T07:30:00.000-07:00

Mijn tuin is niet groot, mijn tuin is niet speciaal. Het is zeker geen engelse landschapstuin. Verder heb ik zeker geen groene vingers. Ik schuif wat met de planten, ik knip en pluk wat. Ik rommel vooral. Ik ben een tuinstruiner. Ik ben er graag; het liefst om te zitten en rond te kijken of te lezen. Eten in de tuin, als het maar even kan.

Zie hier wat een niet-tuinierster doet met een postzegeltuintje voor en achter; het ontspant, het geeft een plek aan de losse eindjes in de dag. En vooral: het maakt het huis zoveel ruimer en het leven zoveel makkelijker.