From the ruins of the old house they created a paradise on the ground.Used everything they found

“We bought the house in 2016. We were looking for an old house that we would reconstruct according to our wishes.And this one won us at first glance, not only because of the beautiful view of the pilgrimage chapel of St.Antonín, ”recalls the owner, who comes from a nearby village.

Tereza made of old hives made herbs.Large windows illuminate the corridor.

The aim of the spouses was to return the house of his authenticity, which unfortunately lost in the 1950s insensitive replacement of windows and entrance doors by the then owner.With this intention, they unexpectedly helped them by accidentally discovered photography.

“When clearing the land, we found an old photograph from the time the house was built.To our astonishment, there was a written name in the photo, which coincidentally is our surname, ”the spouses describe the surprising moment, saying that this house was probably tried.

The photographs, thanks to which the house owners could return the original form of windows that they had newly made at the local carpenter, still hang as a monument "framed" in the old observation hive in the hallway.In addition to the photograph, however, the land also revealed other secrets, such as the original front door of 1929, which with the help of a family friend who renovated them could return to their place, where today they are faithful again.

It wasn't possible without help

The owners had a clear idea of the future interior arrangement as soon as they first stepped into the house."When we saw the space, our vision of housing was immediately with him, almost automatically interconnected ... We knew what the interior should look like once," describes his first feelings about the meeting with Tereza's house.

They then consulted their ideas and ideas with architect Hana Hebnarová of Modřice, who developed the necessary project documentation for the building authority and, among other things, proposed to place the staircase in the attic.

Pavel Szromek with his small company, which held mainly professional works, which Tereza and Jakub would not manage to do with James, were very helped with the reconstruction.

The original shape of the house was retained, as well as the long corridor leading from the hallway to the economic part, today two workplaces and bathrooms, to the workshop and wine cellar.

However, a significant change in internal layouts occurred in the part situated on the left when arriving from the hallway.From the original three rooms, the owners created one large central space, connecting the kitchen, dining room and living room.This room is dominated by a large tiled stove, which the owners fulfilled their dream.

The central space with the furnace originated from three small rooms.

“I remember the tiled stove from my childhood, when my parents and I went to the old timbered house to the Giant Mountains.Cracking wood, radiating heat, food much tastier than an ordinary oven… I wanted to have them at home once, ”says Jakub, who takes the role of the main chef and the tiled stove makes full use of cooking.

However, the family uses the potential of the family in terms of heating: “Even without divorces, they can heat the whole house.Of course, the heat is of course in this room, but it is also located in the other areas of the house, including the attic.Only in the hallway in the former economic part is about two degrees less, ”the couple agrees.

And they add: "Apart from the stove, we are used to heat the underfloor heating for the gas boiler, but we only run it in winter when they cool the stove, or when we are gone to keep the temperature and the house."Bed behind the oven…

Light into the house

There was a boiler room in the site of the contemporary kitchen.The large double window above the kitchen unit towards the garden, of course, due to the use of the room at that time.

The kitchen is a mix of old and new, but in rustic and retro style.

"We have always dreamed of a bright and spacious house, so we tried to bring the windows of the most natural daylight into the interior," says the owner, adding: "At the same time I wanted to see the garden from the kitchen.This is not only pleasant, but also practical in terms of supervision of children. ”

Two specific elements, floor and tiles cannot be overlooked in the kitchen.Original tiles on the wall, which look stylishly as a Czech countryside, are hand painted and come from Mexico.However, the couple bought them in a specialized Prague shop after a positive experience, when they recalled the previous apartment.

The kitchen floor is then covered by so -called soil, ie bricks, which originally served as a walkable material, as the name tells, the attic space.“We carefully removed the soil and carried them in the trunk of the car to our then apartment, where we soaked and scrubbed them to reuse them.They found their place not only on the floor in the kitchen, but also in the hallway.At the same time, we used them as window sills, ”Jakub describes.

The original tiles from the corridor then gained their new place in the bathroom on the ground floor, whose pearl is undoubtedly a cabinet with a turntable by Jindřich Halabala, the famous Czech furniture designer of the sixties, which today serves as a washbasin cabinet.

The hallway to the former economic part has a floor from the grounds.

The dining table is illuminated by a chandelier of somewhat unusual origin.Before becoming a luminaire, it served as a bowl for soup.“We bought a chandelier from the old porcelain Terina from a great furniture, which calls itself disproportion.She graduated from the restoration of ceramics and her hobby is to create just such original pieces, for which she uses an old porcelain convicted of demise.It gives him a new mission and form of use, ”explains Tereza, who is the co -founder of the website of the website, where the products of Czech domestic furnitiors are associated.

Attic with surprise

The staircase with an original built -in library in the corner of the room rises to the residential attic created from the original soil.The staircase treads are then accompanied by a railing with a threaded rope, made according to the owner of the owner.

On the first floor there are two children's rooms in addition to the toilet and bathroom, one of which currently serves as a guest room, a small cleaning room and a spacious parents' bedroom with an adjacent dressing room.On the way to the bedroom, however, a narrow corridor offers a pleasant surprise, a large free space for rest, filled with a huge mattress and pillows, with a large window to the garden and photographs from travels framed in the original window frames hanged on the walls.

The forehead of unconventional double beds consists of an old carpentry table or ponk.

When you enter the bedroom, open space with modest equipment, you will immediately attract an unusual double bed, whose forehead consists of an old carpentry table, also known as planers or ponk.

“The manufacturer of the bed and the author of this unconventional idea is the Furnitier on the custom known as Homefurniture.His work approached us and we could not resist, ”says Tereza with a smile.

Retro batteries understand well with retro switches and drawers ...

And he adds: “He always gets an old carpentry table and then completes the rest of the bed, which of course artificially elderly to make the result realistic and paying forehead from the planer.The construction of the bed is wearing scratches and looks worn, which gives it an incredibly distinctive look. ”

On the wall next to the bed is a hanging trumpet, which also serves for a completely different purpose than originally made.Like the porcelain soup bowl on the ground floor today is an unusual luminaire.

Details in accordance with the interior

All wiring in the house is new, including wiring.The owner then expected a relatively difficult task to find current switches and drawers that would fit the style of their dream interior.

“We first met Retro switches at Prague's Designblok, but in fact we got to them later, when one of my friends who works in the Zlín company Ochzor.When he saw the style of our housing, he immediately recommended us a retro collection that absolutely impressed us, ”says Jakub.

“We delivered the switches and retro sockets with a black ceramic frame.This variant exactly matched the interior style, ”says Lenka Vodicová from Obzor Zlín.

And Tereza adds to him: “I couldn't even imagine that there were common plastic switches.They wouldn't fit here at all.And I generally refuse plastic, I always try to look for an alternative… ”

Before the reconstruction, the house was equipped with old black bakelite switches, and the black color for the elements of the wiring wanted to maintain.The specific design of the Retro switches allows unusual control to today's ratios, light lights up and goes out not by pressing the switch cover and switching it to the upper or lower position, but by turning the center handle.This allows the inner cam mechanism, thanks to which the switch is released by a characteristic "click" when turning the handle, a sound typical of the first Republic switches.

Home Made Renovation and Upcek

In a similar original spirit, of course, the other rooms and equipment of the house, which the owner often renovates and creates himself."I am a handyman, I will relax at all sorts of painting and grinding," Tereza admits.

And he continues: “But I don't try to give things a new look, but I like to know the tooth of time.I only treat wood against pests and then paint it with oil that does not close its surface, as the paint does. ”

For this woman, Tereza uses a workshop created at the site of the former economic part for a woman.In addition to the old window frames used for framing photographs or trumpet-lamps, even unusual flower pots for herbs made of old hives, which were left in the house, left the former owner, storage tables made of trees felled in the garden or shelf from Valcha in the laundry.

As Tereza herself claims, she is not looking for inspiration on the Internet for her creations.It is enough to look at the subject or piece of furniture and immediately has the idea of breathing their new life.

Thanks to these unusual details, Tereza and Jakub's home breathes in an unforgettable atmosphere and they both make both of them happy: “We love this lifestyle.Everything we found here and could be used in some way, we renovated or cyclined and kept it here.We are very pleased that the house has accepted us as much as we do, ”adds satisfied spouses.

Tereza made of old hives made herbs.Large windows illuminate the corridor.