Text and images Britt-Arnhild Wigum Lindland

When he had finished the new hallway it was time to do something with the old one (the new hallway is a kind of extention to our house). First on the list - removing the ugly, white wardrobe.

What a joy to know that the wardrobe would now be history. So would the worn dark orange floor.
My father in law is a carpenter, and though Terje works in quite another field, as a civil engineer, he has inherited his father's skills.
For weeks now he has spent the nights either out cross country skiing, or working in our old hallway.
Most nights he has done both.
To the noise of busy tools, the smell of fresh wood and paint, I have followed the work. Followed it in my way. The way I love spending the nights.
Reading!
What am I reading, you ask? Through words and a few illustrations I am travelling several hundred years back in time, several hundred miles south, toVenice and the Veneto region in Italy, learning more about the renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
I first read about him in Frances Mayes' blog, ordered Palladian Days by Sally Gable and Carl I. Gable, started an email correspondence with Mr. Gable, ordered The Perfect House by Witold Rybczynaski, kept on armchairtravelling with my blogreader (and dear friend) Antonella who lives in the region......and suddenly a Palladio week-end in May together with Antonella, with boat from Venice up the Brenta Canal is booked.....

How different The House in the Woods is from the Palladian Villas. How I love sitting in my red house from 1975, dreaming about villases built 500 years ago.
Palladio wrote Four Books on Architecture/Quattro Libri dell' architettura. From one of them I read:
One must describe a suitable house which will be appropriate to the status of the person who will have to live in it and of which the parts will correspond to the whole and to each other.......
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Our new room is finished....almost. We still need to by a lamp or two, the 100 years old drawer, which used to be grandma Olga's, needs a new mirrow, the old one wouldn't do any more....we have order a handmade one made in the old style......and the white wall needs a painting. I am planning to look for an antique one in Venice.....later this year. Or in the summer.
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