Lily
24/09/14
Harry
24/09/14
Final stretch
24/09/14
In the last few weeks things have really come together. The wooden floor in the lounge and the kitchen tiles are down.
The windows are in, the electrics are ready, the kitchen cupboards are in and the worktops are due next week.
The back garden has been remodeled and it’s totally transformed.
I’m not getting too excited but there’s a small part of me that is starting to believe that this job might actually finish one day soon…
Lest we forget the maisonette
20/09/14
The renovation is going to end in the next few weeks so I wanted to preserve a memory* of the chaotic quarters we’ve been living in for the last 6 months – effectively an upstairs maisonette over a building site.
It’s a reasonable amount of space for the four of us but what’s made it awkward is not having a proper kitchen. Appliances, utensils, crockery and food have been distributed in various places, including under our bed.
*I’m allowing the sound of hammering. drilling, shouting in Polish and the interminable, repetitive playlist of whatever European-radio-station-it-is-they’ve-had-playing-almost-constantly-since-March to be thankfully forgotten