Now the kitchen has been installed we are very near the finish line. Much to the glee of David and I the water is running, the electricity is on and there is finally only one more wall to paint with a final coat.
This last week the laminate kitchen work top arrived and was hauled up the stairs by David, Antoine and Steve (who just happened to be there at a very convenient time) no easy task as the longest piece was 3.6m long. David has neatly cut it and fit the run across the back wall down - the other sides will be fitted and the sink hole will be cut this week.
My eagerness to move driven by the frustration of living out of boxes and feeling like my life is on hold should soon end. Once we get all those frustratingly fiddly finishing touches done - we will be in... i feel it is very soon.
It has been a very long process and we have done more than we first imagined (and spent more than we first invisaged) but the flat will be amazing and I am very much looking forward to finally having some friends around for a toast. Speaking of which Caine and Erin have taken a trip to South Africa but were able to pop around for a celebratory end of Caine's work on the flat. It was great to have him work with us and in one way it is sad to say goodbye, I especially loved having a good old Aussie accent around reminding me off home, and that aside, he did a fantastic job.
I have updated the photo link "flat" with more pictures. Will update the blog again once we have moved in - yay!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 01, 2008
The Floor and MORE...
Since the evening of the private view alot has happened and the flat is getting closer and closer to a final moving in date.
Caine has layed the floor which just looks lovely. Gary, our tiler, has done a wonderful job with the fiddly tiles we bought - and manage to not break a single one of the cream tiles leaving us none to spare a very close call but a job well done.
Initially we planned to have a floor to ceiling length cupboard in the bathroom but once it was put in it looked very wrong so Caine fashioned it into a half height cupboard and extended the bench (beautifully crafted out of bits of the leftover floor) and it works perfectly in the space.
Caine has also built us wardrobes and a hall cupboard which should deal with our storage needs.
The architraves have been fitted, knotting solutioned, sanded, primed, poly fillered, undercoated and will shortly receive their final coat of gloss.
David and I have been painting like mad but there still seems to be acres to cover. After much stress and strain the heaters have been hung on and the boiler installed.
The kitchen units arrived on Wednesday and next week Caine and David will start to install these... with the appliances arriving on Tuesday. We had originally hoped to move in before the kitchen was installed i.e. this weekend but there are still so many little jobs to finish off, like installing the shower screen, finishing the acres of painting and having the carpets fitted - it would be more trouble than its worth trying to negotiate building the kitchen, boxes of our things and random bits of furniture while showering in a bucket... it just wouldn't be feasible.
So on the whole its getting there. And I may even go as far as to say we could move in in two weeks time (i really hope sooo). Although, as any of you who have done this kind of thing before will know - schedules get stretched, smashed and pushed back so who can say. Fingers crossed everyone.
More photos have been added to the flat link for you to keep track of the progress.
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Caine has layed the floor which just looks lovely. Gary, our tiler, has done a wonderful job with the fiddly tiles we bought - and manage to not break a single one of the cream tiles leaving us none to spare a very close call but a job well done.
Initially we planned to have a floor to ceiling length cupboard in the bathroom but once it was put in it looked very wrong so Caine fashioned it into a half height cupboard and extended the bench (beautifully crafted out of bits of the leftover floor) and it works perfectly in the space.
Caine has also built us wardrobes and a hall cupboard which should deal with our storage needs.
The architraves have been fitted, knotting solutioned, sanded, primed, poly fillered, undercoated and will shortly receive their final coat of gloss.
David and I have been painting like mad but there still seems to be acres to cover. After much stress and strain the heaters have been hung on and the boiler installed.
The kitchen units arrived on Wednesday and next week Caine and David will start to install these... with the appliances arriving on Tuesday. We had originally hoped to move in before the kitchen was installed i.e. this weekend but there are still so many little jobs to finish off, like installing the shower screen, finishing the acres of painting and having the carpets fitted - it would be more trouble than its worth trying to negotiate building the kitchen, boxes of our things and random bits of furniture while showering in a bucket... it just wouldn't be feasible.
So on the whole its getting there. And I may even go as far as to say we could move in in two weeks time (i really hope sooo). Although, as any of you who have done this kind of thing before will know - schedules get stretched, smashed and pushed back so who can say. Fingers crossed everyone.
More photos have been added to the flat link for you to keep track of the progress.
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