Weekend Update

A fun song for the weekend.

Renovations have been crazy; so many strange people have entered and modified our home in some way. The bedrooms have carpets, we have real and unstained flooring, there are actual kitchen appliences in the kitchen (along with an island!!), and we have toilets.

Unfortunately, our living room furniture is all bundled in a corner under a plastic sheet and our bathrooms don't have showers. Luckily, our building has a pool with a showered changing room.

Lovely.

More pictures to come next week, and happy day-before-mother's day to all :)

Maybe impress her with a furnished living room?

So far...

This post is dedicated to Peter, someone who actually reads this blog. Thanks!

Recently I went away to Estonia but before we left we added a few more things to our condo:

1) New lights in the kitchen

Aren't they pretty?

2) Finished the bulkhead over the kitchen

3) Got rid of those awkward ceiling wall things 

4) Mudded and taped my new wall in my bedroom (insulated with Safe & Sound insulation so I don't hear the TV in the living room)

It still needs to be sanded though...

5) Got some (IKEA) shades in my room

Our contractors are away somewhere at the time, so unfortunately, not much is going to be done soon. But on a happier note, I found my keys!

As for what's coming up in our plans, mum's ordering some cork tiles from Jelinek that will go on 3 my walls. Pretty cool, right?

Who doesn't love a good
piece of cork?

Jelinek Cork Group cork tiles

We're also going to (finally) replace the dingy, old, disgusting carpet in my room with some beautiful, cream 100% wool carpet. Lovely.

How To Deal (with grumpy maintenance people)

We were getting rid of the walls in the kitchen today, which meant we had a lot of drywall on our hands. Got Junk? came to pick it up for us, but unfortunately they made a big mess in the hallways of the co-op we now live in.

This is where Joe the building maintenance man comes in.

First of all, he gets rid of the padding in the elevators at 3, then he refuses to put it back up (which means the Got Junk? people couldn't bring any of the junk down to their truck) even though we had the elevators booked until 4. And then he complains about the mess for 5 minutes.

I tried phoning the building's manager, but of course, his phone is off, while in the meantime, the cleaner was yelling at the Got Junk? people. I couldn't tell who was more frustrated.

Thankfully, 10 minutes later, Mr. Building Manager phones me back and says that I was right (of course) and we had the elevators until 4 and that he had gotten Joe to start the elevator again. He also said though that we had to clean the mess in the hallway or we would be fined. Touché.

We did clean up the hallways, the Got Junk? people left, and Joe seemed content enough.

However, in all this ruckus, I seemed to have misplaced my keys...