Exhausted!

We are so nearly there but man, I am so exhausted all of a sudden.  It has finally caught up with me.  I've spent 2 days unpacking boxes and putting stuff away.  I've re-sorted the downstairs rumpus/guest room and it is very nearly ready for the Broggi family visit.  Pete plumbed in the kitchen tap and dishwasher last night and the electrician rigged up power to the dishwasher today.  I've finally got a working kitchen!  I may just be too tired to actually cook in it now.  There seem to be a million little things that need to be finished now.  We are waiting on one more major thing; the stainless kitchen bench for which the guy who was supposed to come measure up yesterday still hasn't arrived today and the clock is ticking towards the weekend.  Half the paintings/pictures/posters are hung but some are still sitting on the floor.  Blinds need to go back up.  Painting needs to be finished once the bench arrives, the outdoor water gutter system needs to be hooked up so we can start catching rainwater again and I've yet to find an outdoor patio light that has any sort of decorative style.  It's just good ole kiwi practicality in that department.  I can't order the one I want from the States because it's the wrong voltage!  We will just have to bbq with our headlamps on I suppose.  So here's a look at where we stand now:

prints to be hung

blinds to go back up

electrician left for lunch with the lights half hung

chairs to be repaired

more prints to hang

my favorite corner!!

no stainless bench, no working plug

massive double sink with dirty dishes in it...yuck!

Here she is...

I'm pretty sure you are not supposed to leave residual glue on your hands while you push the flooring boards in place.  I've spent all day spraying and wiping a very large bamboo floor trying to get the glue fingerprints off the boards.  It seemed to be going well until I stood back and looked at an angle to notice that actually it looked just as dirty as when I started a few hours ago.  I give up on this one.  I've got a lifetime to try to get the marks off now.
On a more positive note, the kitchen arrived yesterday in all her glory.  It took all day but she is finally in, minus the bench tops, and I am chuffed to bits.

Progress Report

Walls and ceiling painted after a few days of continuous solo painting.

Bright and white.

The flooring is 'in da house'.

my colorful new acapulco set

the last hanging pod chair in all of NZ...and it's all ours!

Pete is making quick work of the floor laying.

yoga rocks

Living in a dust bowl

Well the builders have left the building and we are left with enormous amounts of dust.  Dust everywhere!  Dust inside, dust outside, dust on my skin, dust in our beds, on our food......you get the picture.  No matter how many times we sweep and vacuum, the dust just reappears.  I am on a countdown to the end.  10 days and we should be moving our stuff into our kitchen, dining and living room once and for all.  Yesterday I moved all of our stuff, one more time, from the downstairs up to the deck where we are now "living" or shall I say camping for the next 10 days.  Thank god we decided to cover most of the deck.  So this is where we stand 7 days away from the flooring finally arriving and 10 days away from the install of the kitchen. 

our new living space

ghetto makeshift kitchen

floors prepped and ready for the flooring to be laid

walls are plastered and sealed, awaiting a final sand and paint!

color samples

big white empty room!

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Heaps of progress this week with the Gib board installed and the balustrade for the deck on, cladding complete and voila!  Of course we aren't without a few minor disasters.  The flooring company mistakenly does not actually have our product in stock because their boxes are labelled incorrectly and the product inside is not what it says it is.  Wouldn't you check the shipment when it arrives to make sure it is correct?  Apparently not, but in light of this discovery they have kindly offered us a free mop while we wait an additional 2 to 3 weeks for the correct product to arrive.  I very nicely told them where they can stuff their mop as we go homeless once again waiting for the bamboo to arrive so Pete can install it so that the kitchen can be fitted at which stage we can finally move in which will be approximately November never it seems!  Not good.  Next week comes plastering and finishing off the landing for the deck and stairs and then on to painting.  After that we will sit in our big empty new room and wait for the flooring to arrive.  Happy days.

Weathertight

No more flapping tarps, no more whistling cold wind.....the doors and windows are finally in!