Light is the final touch that can enhance or degrade even the best interiors. And lighting is a complex issue because it’s about: how many lights you have and where/how they’re positioned, what sort of bulb you choose (white, warm, etc) and its power, what light fitting you choose. Let’s see how you can tackle [...]

A few months ago I started working on transforming an improvised bathroom into a walk-in-wardrobe and a proper more comfortable and stylish bathroom. The “bathroom” had been kept as their previous owners had left it and you can see how it looked and felt from the pictures below! The owners wanted to to create a [...]

When renovating a house, the electrical installation is one of the things that has to be redone 90% of the time. Now it is also a legal obligation in Belgium: once you buy a house you have eighteen months to request a certificate of conformity. This seems quite obvious and normal but what most people [...]

In Brussels you can still find typical 1900s houses (the so called maisons bruxelloises) that have the luck of having been untouched for the previous six or seven decades. I love the charm of old houses so I consider this to be a lucky situation because although it implies doing a lot of work, all [...]

In Belgium, if you buy a house whose electrical installation was done before 1981, the seller will have to give you a certification of an electrical inspection performed for the sale. The certification will either state that the installation is compliant or not compliant. In the latter case the reasons will be described and you [...]