Workday #4

Workday #3

Yup...that's how it looks at our place right now.

Workday #2

and the grey, glittery linoleum is gone!

Workday #1

Room is so much larger without actual kitchen in it! I am thinking about just putting the dining room table in and frequenting restaurants.

Bye, Bye Kitchen

We are finally having our kitchen renovated. After it took about 3 weeks to have the bathroom done (in 2010) we weren't too eager to start on the kitchen but it is really time now. The kitchen has to go! It is a tiny, tiny kitchen about the same size as the galleys I work in on the planes. But the size isn't what bothers me too much since I am not much of a cook to begin with.     

What really bothers me is the look of it. It is greyish, with a grey, sparkly linoleum floor that even covers some of the walls.

Seriously,...it's it not easy to look at this first thing in the morning when I stumble into the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea.

I'll be very glad when it is gone.

Done!

After 18 workdays and a lot of dust our bathroom is done!

When I offered son to take the first shower he politely told me that I should be the first one to use the shower. "No", I said "you go ahead and tell me how you like it!"

Again, he declined. "What's wrong?" I asked him. "Why don't you want to take a shower?" "Well", he answered, "just in case the workers made a mistake and the whole thing comes tumbling down, I don't want to be in it."

I took the first shower and it worked perfectly.

Work Day #8

Workday #7

Getting there!!!

I will be so glad when we can move back in our apartment. Right now it is occupied by painters, tilers and electricians. But...ah...they are getting there!

I do have a newfound respect for my friend who is not only renovating a lousy little room but building a gigantic house. I couldn't do it. I would lose it.

Work Day #5

Sigh.

Work Day #4

this might take awhile...

Work Day #1

oh...

Bathroom

Today is the last day of our ugly (see pictures above) bathroom. Tomorrow it will be gutted. The worst thing about it is the black laminate floor with glitter. Who would pick something like that? The glitter doesn't come out in the pictures...it really is very bad.

It took us one year to decide on the tiles, the shower, the faucets and the sink. Actually, the sink was the only thing we knew we really wanted, the rest just had to look good with the sink.

In my ignorance I thought you can completely renovate a bathroom within 3 to 4 days. The faces of the handymen when I told them were priceless. Of course, I am sure my face didn't look much better when they told me it will take around 2 weeks. Sigh.