The ceiling had to come down...

The first thing we did was to tear down the ceiling. Someone had put it up sometime in the 70's and we were hoping that underneath it there would be the original 1880's ceiling, maybe even with som stucco... Boy, were we in for a surprise!



Appearantly our house had been in a really bad state at some point of it's history and at that time some of the ceiling had come down. So there we were with just half of the original ceiling left and the rest of it was stuffed with something we really didn't know what it was and sealed with some kind of aluminium foil. Luckily we couldn't see that there ever had been any stucco, so at least we didn't have to feel sorry for that.
After some hard work, and the help of a very tall and sweet friend, we had a new ceiling up and now I remember what people say about old houses. Lots of surprises!