We've finally started with all our renovations and things, and are now about 2 weeks into the mess. Feels like nothing is really happening, only that everything is all over the place. I'm not really complaining -- we wanted to do all this, and knew it would be an inconvenience.
The girls have been sleeping in the lounge for the last 2 weeks. The novelty has now worn off. They are living out of a washing basket as their room has basically been a no-go zone for a while. There's either always someone painting or tiling there or there's a bath standing in front of the cupboards.
The wooden floor people started with the laminates in Shannon's new room yesterday and now only have to do the skirting boards and the transition strips. They couldn't paint the skirting boards yesterday as it was raining. We've had such nice warm weather lately -- felt like Summer had arrived early -- but today the wind is coming straight off some icebergs. Shannon's room is all painted now. Had some fun and games with the paint: We picked a colour we (Shannon mostly) liked and got a litre of it to try out on the wall. It looked fine but when we got the actual paint, the colour seemed a lot darker and not as nice. I'd picked the wrong type of paint and the same colour looks different in the different types of paint. Lots of head-scratching and hassles later, we gave up on the PearlGlo and bought Luxurious Silk and the painters had to do the whole room over again. It looks a lot better now. Shannon is very excited about moving in to her own room. We should be getting the rest of her new furniture this weekend. Then the hard work of sorting out all her belongings starts! The bath and bathroom fittings also still have to go in, plus the new lights. Not quite there yet. It will be nice to have at least one room finished.
The painters are finishing off Sarah and Daniel's room this morning. The wooden floors will go in then, and then the plumbers just have to reconnect the bath and put the basin and bathroom fittings in. Still have to do the lights and plug covers too. Sarah really likes the colour she picked, but Daniel is insisting on pink and orange. He probably won't be sleeping in the room with Sarah for a while, but it's a start in the right direction.
The carpenter is building a dry wall in the garage to partition off the 3rd garage so that we can turn it into a studio. We had to move all the bedding and stuff out of the huge storage cupboard in the garage yesterday so that they could move the cupboard to make space for the wall. More stuff that had to go somewhere. The dining room is full of things that came out of the kids' rooms, the guest apartment is full of stuff that came out of Shannon's new room, the garage is always full of all kinds of things and the lounge is full of bedding, kids' mattresses and assorted junk. It looks as if we've just moved in, not using boxes. I am not looking forward to all the sorting out that still has to happen.
The hardest part for me is having people in the house and around the house all the time. The kids are also getting grumpy because there's nowhere to hide from all of this. When it's warm they take mattresses out to the trampoline and basically live there for most of the day. It's really unpleasant outside today, so we're stuck in the house. Plus we've had to get up a lot earlier than normal, so that doesn't help the general mood either (mine mostly).
The pool people finished the hole yesterday and dropped the pool shell in this morning. They are busy fiddling with levels and stuff. It actually looks bigger now than I thought it would be. Not quite an Olympic-sized pool, but nice for playing in, I think. The kids are quite excited about this development.
The fireplaces are half in and should be finished next Tuesday. The kitchen is going in the week of the 6th of September. The builders will have to strip the kitchen the week before. That will be fun -- living without a kitchen for 2 weeks. There's only so many sarmies you can eat before you need a warm meal. And we don't have a Mr Delivery in Paternoster!
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