Dutch dream house renovation

Time to get some of these renovation stories documented here... how do you take a 70's style dutch house and turn it into a place you love to be in? Make sure you have dreams, advice, trustworthy & good worker dudes (with their own advice), set a budget .... and....enjoy!!!!!:

Now for some house & garden updates... renovations are complete on the dream house. Garden guy said the work would be done in 8 days. Unfortunately, he didn't say which 8 days... some of those 8 days may just happen in 2007 at the rate things are going now. But the big stuff is done - most importantly: the trampoline! yeppers, we're havin' some fun here.