This is how Blick readers made their life dreams come true.

Whether in a small house of just a few square meters, a spacious villa, a fully converted farmhouse or an all-terrain vehicle: once again this year, Blick was able to visit a wide range of Blick readers who made their dream home. happen.

Often with a lot of personal work and little money, sometimes with a few hurdles from the authorities. The location issue is often an issue, especially when it comes to small forms of housing, and is more or less supported or blocked depending on the municipality. Here are some of the best conversion stories we could show this year.

Mirjam Lerch (33) and Gregor Tanner (47) experienced how difficult and arduous it can be to find a place for a mini house. They live with their two children in a dormitory they built in Bischofszell TG. It is not yet known how long the family will live there.

Marina Niedermann (30) has the same problem. The young teacher is happier about her happiness. She lives in a small house in Affeltrangen TG for an unlimited amount of time. This gives him security in his paradise created in a dreamlike place.

Andreas Föhr (56) has also found his paradise. But there are many places to live in his paradise. He lives in a registered villa in Zurich. But he only has one room for himself. That’s enough for him because he prefers to share rather than possess. The community person shares the entire house and garden with 17 other residents.

A little rustic in the sunny south was the dream of Ernst (75) and Phannapha (49) Bösch. With a lot of personal work, the couple transformed their old rustic home in the Maggia Valley into a contemporary, tiny home with optimum energy consumption in just ten months.

Single dad Stephan Mayer (50) took more time to himself with his transformation project. The self-employed carpenter almost alone rebuilt his typical 1960s home in Aargau only with his new partner, Sandra Zehnder (52). The couple has other conversion plans and renovations, but will do them in stages for cost reasons.

The versatile Stee Zurbrügg (59) and wife Cornelia Zurbrügg (57) also had little budget. The couple built on their own a dream house with a loft character from an old farmhouse in Unterland, Zurich. The creative couple is constantly changing and beautifying their home.

Travel is the great passion of Silvia (66) and Werner Berger (68). They made a dream come true with converted reconnaissance vehicles. The retired couple has everything they need to live in 18 square meters. The couple has been traveling the world with their “Expi” for years and they feel at home everywhere.