Over a month since my last post and we even completed yet another orbit of the sun! Wishing you all a very healthy, peaceful, happy and wealthy new year! May this New Year, a Rabbit one, be fluffy and cute and with only little turds! 🐇
The main work has been completed, a little before Christmas. Is it done? No, there are many (small) issues to be fixed yet. But the bulk of it all is complete and after cleaning (again!) and putting lots of things away, we can now use our brand new and oh so beautiful kitchen. The work that was done is beyond our expectations.
This was the kitchen the day we were moving in:
This is the kitchen, post renovations:
Can you see the difference? Night and day, really!! We have more cabinets, a bigger island, quartz, and now we can cook and store our shit away!
The other room where we had major work done was the main bathroom:
Haven't taken a bath yet in the new tub, but I will say that having a toilet back on the top floor is very, very nice and oh so practical! Especially in the middle of the night!
Tomorrow some wallpapering is schedule to happen for the entrance and the water room... As for the last issues Dog knows when those will be addressed, I'm not holding my breath on those, but I will withhold final payment. 😉
I think they were off still last week, so I'm hoping to hear from them this coming week, if not then they will hear from me! We were supposed to have a man come in during the Holidays to fix part of the flooring in the basement, but he never called or anything. Either he forgot or just didn't want to come back. Since it was "extra" I'm not upset as we also needed the time off to crash, clean and unpack (again!) at our pace. It was nice not to have to get up freakin' early to open the door to workers banging their way through the house. The day we removed that blue carpet clingy thingy they had put all over the ground floor and stairs felt so darn good. Even if the (original) floor is damaged (marks, dings, etc. did I mention animals lived here before?!) it was nice to actually walk from one floor to the other without hearing the crunching of little pieces of dirt, wall or whatever else and this even if we'd vacuumed. I don't think I ever vacuumed in my life as much as I've done in this house so far! Washing the floors, walls even (that fuckin' dust of demolition, sanding and wood cutting gets on everything and goes everywhere!) and actually having them stay "clean" for more than a weekend has been nice!
We were/are both tired not to say exhausted from it all. Managing our stress and life was/is a bit much at times, but we managed to keep it together. We are thankful for how everything went overall because it wasn't a small job. We basically had work in every room but one. We love the designer's vision and how he made everything coherent from his choice of colors and textures. We like how he respected our style and work with that. We love the painter's work and how he repainted (the bathroom completely!) and other areas without bitching about it or overcharging us... We were lucky with the amazing contractor we had and his team (plumber and electrician). Those men and one gal were super nice, efficient and did nice work all the while remaining helpful.
The one woman was the electrician. That is her on top of the ladder in the stairs while installing the light fixture in the staircase, after one man tipped over and fell (nothing broken, thankfully)... That gal was fearless. She got shit done. She managed to pass wires in the basement's ceiling from one corner to the other side of the house without making any new holes! It may seem like it's not much, but it not only save time from not having to redo gyprock on the ceiling (then plaster, sanding, etc.), but the amount of dust we were spared from... that was no joke! For that I'm VERY grateful!
I actually moved back to my office last Tuesday, to Hubby's delight. We really don't share well! I'm slowly getting settled in my new space. I'm setup as far as work is concerned, but for my craft I'm still working on it. All in due time. No rush, at least not for that!
So there you have it, the latest news on our Popular Renovations Chronicle!
Take care, stay safe and watch out for morons!
They're everywhere!
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