Mit wenig Geld renoviert Selma das alte Haus ihrer Oma ARD Room Tour

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With only a small budget, but many ideas and the right intuition, Selma renovated her late grandmother's old house in Mainz and then furnished it carefully and lovingly. The result is a stylish mix of modern elements and old charm. • The small house had originally been built by her great-grandparents in 1921. It is a simple settlement house. It was the first in the series, a kind of model house for families with a large garden for self-sufficiency - typical of the time. • Three generations lived in it: three children under the roof, in the middle the parents and on the first floor the grandparents. In another small attic room, today's bathroom, lived temporarily Miss Pfeiler, Selma tells. An unmarried student with an Indian boyfriend. The Kirschners had to move even closer together at the end of World War II, when living space was scarce and 14 bombed-out people and refugees sought shelter. • Selma initially grew up in Kastel, studied acting and theater pedagogy after graduating from high school. When her grandmother Josefa died in 2015, the question arose as to who would move into the two upper floors. Since her siblings were not interested, Selma seized the opportunity and moved into grandma's little house in 2016. She shares the house with her uncle, who lives on the first floor. • Selma is grateful for the apartment and the small rent she pays for it, because she knows how difficult and tense the housing situation is in Mainz. Manuel, her subtenant, can tell you a thing or two about it. Originally, he only wanted to stay for three months, but that has now turned into six years. • As a theater teacher and actress with a job at the Rhine-Neckar Theater in Mannheim, Selma does not have a huge income. The young woman considers every investment carefully, and she does a lot of the renovation and conversion work herself in a DIY way: ripping out the old floor to expose the beautiful wooden floorboards, sanding them down and painting them, for example. • One of the biggest investments so far has been the bathroom in the attic and some new windows. Single-pane plastic windows would have been cheaper, but the Mainz resident opted for expensive double-pane windows made of wood, in keeping with the architectural style of the house. • The 32-year-old proves that style is not a question of money - even with a small budget, you can furnish your home tastefully. And so she boldly combines used vintage or second-hand furniture that she found in the basement, received as a gift or bought cheaply on the Internet. • No two rooms are alike, and each is tastefully designed with a bold use of color. In the living room, shades of blue meet orange, and the bathroom is grayish yellow. So they seem modern without losing the charm of the old and the historic substance. • The kitchen, the heart of her apartment, is next. Selma spent a long time thinking and planning, because the connections for gas and water had to be installed. The fact that she has been living in a shell of a building for around six years doesn't bother her. A wrong decision would bother her much more. And it's clear: Selma's path doesn't lead to the kitchen studio, but to the basement - where a kitchen cabinet from the 1950s is still waiting for her to kiss it awake. • If you ask the Mainz native how she would describe her interior design style, she likes to quote her grandma: E bissje schee, e bissje gut und nit so deier! (A little bit nice, a little bit good and not so expensive). • A film by Heike Glaser (editing), Katrin Oemig (camera), Dennis Jankovic (sound) and Michael Zeigermann (editing). • 00:00 Introduction • 00:32 Guests WC • 00:45 Review • 01:06 Living room • 03:05 Attic • 03:57 Office and bedroom • 05:45 Bathroom • 06:30 Soap collection • 07:05 Kitchen • 08:40 Love for the process

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