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Step by step
The apartment has
gained a very special touch: the pine floor that runs into the kitchen
and that perhaps doesn't seem very practical but that is protected by
the varnish. The new kitchen was a small room with two entrances. It was
adapted to today needs with tricks so as to become a built-in kitchen.
The wall between the kitchen and the living room has no door frame now
and the new one was built according to old partition techniques.
The process consists mainly in rebuilding
the Marquis of Pombal wooden framework, filling the space with lime plastered
stone.
The kitchen, moved to a former room, has
now a window looking into the living room, instead of a door. It was lined
with cupboards from floor to ceiling in order to make the best of the
limited space. The wooden panel above the cupboards hides the lights.
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The door of the old pantry was closed in order to build a bathroom.
The chimney remained and was transformed into the wardrobe that runs
along the whole wall of the new bedroom. The bathroom was buit from
the start and lined with crème "pedra moca" (limestone). |
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The bath was
taken in the kitchen maybe because it was the warmest place of the
house. The bath had to disappear and was replaced by a very spacious
wardrobe.
The corridor remained. At the bottom
of the corridor, near the kitchen, the old storage room had no door.
It became the bathroom and was lined with crème "pedra moca" (limestone)
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afterwards
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