Hanging in there!

Renovating is one of those things that turn you into a bad friend. I am guilty of that and because of that I'm watching birthdays and weddings fly by, invitations forgotten, because I have been too busy to keep in touch. I'm sorry, friends. I love you and I miss you but I must get this house done.

Progress has been made, somewhat. There are architraves on the windows in the laundry and there's a loo now, so we can work at the house longer than two hours at a time! The wall faucets work but not the basin - it's not connected to anything!

We took the door off of the back hallway where the bathroom door used to be. The hallways is now useless (it leads to another back door, but we'll almost always use the laundry door) so we are thinking of closing it up and turning it into a shed, accessible only from the outside. For now, it is just another great source of light for the dining room!

The laundry room now has a door on the inside! This is for privacy. It still needs to be painted but hey, a door's a door, man.

And this...this is my future sewing nook. Mind, that is only the pre-prepcoat so it looks pretty rubbish BUT the log cabin wall will be a dark, moody grey and the walls a nice sweet pink. The reason for the "feature" wall is because the original exterior walls (i.e. the log cabin walls) have lots of spaces which, when painted white, show up. I don't want to gap-seal all of them. So we're painting them dark.

My kitchen cabinets are coming along nicely, though. They have handles.

And fancy light switches for my fancy undercabinet LEDs.

And oh hey, check out my cooktop, right smack on my drawer unit. It hasn't been installed as we're still waiting on the darn benchtops.

I love looking through the blue of the kitchen into the afternoon sunlit dining room. Such a change in color and tone. Makes such a difference!

In our bedroom we've begin building the wardrobes. They look SO enormous!

And finally, Clark has begun the skylight. It has a villaboard lining and he is setting in the corners so I can sand and paint those very soon. I might as well, since the tilers (&^$*ing tilers, UGH) flaked out AGAIN and are now two MORE weeks late getting in to tile this bathroom. We are now a MONTH LATE moving out of this apartment. I'm not happy we're still renting. It's costing us money every day we're not in the house, and they are directly affecting my budget. GAH.

The good news is, the bathroom is ready for the tilers. All of that waterproofing is just brilliant, isn't it!

It's not all negative. We do have some pretty roses in the garden to console us!

Well, until I take a walk and see how much more there is to do. But this can wait until after we're moved in! (That's my sewing window. It does not open both ways. So it needs to be repainted, and unstuck.)

I do find my patience wearing a bit thin, especially with tilers. (Actually, more or less, ONLY with tilers. Everyone else has been GREAT.) And I want to be moved in. The worst part though was that this long weekend, the perfect weekend for getting things accomplished...we got sick. Piper first, then a couple days later, ME! UGH. I really don't like being sick. It interferes with my whole "get up and go" personality! I knew it was a beautiful warm day outside, perfect for getting work done, but by the end of the day all I could do was get a few stitches in at the sewing machine. Boo. We are on the mend now and feeling much better, but I'm still tired and my ribs ache. I did manage to get the study/sewing room prepcoated last night, in an unexpected burst of inspiration!

Well we're off to get coffee and have lunch with the family for Easter! Hope yours is equally lovely. Cheers!