Our new digs....

So I am hesitant to post pics, since all is not done and I forgot to take pics of Seb and our room actually finished. Perhaps I'll do that when I have actually some time on my hands. But in any case, here it goes, because at least that way you can share a peak in our maddening world as of late. 

                   

So, the kitchen.....

Just a sink and closet with lovely tilework everywhere.

And, shazam...wall tiles are off, cabinets are in.

 No sink or appliances in yet. 

     

 Oak counter top on, above cabinets and half of the exhaust fan.

Washing machine in, cabinet doors on, flooring replaced and backsplash on. 

What's left? Well, put the shelves in the closet, baseboards, sand, paint and put back the kitchen door. Grout the tiles and last but not least move the refridge from the living room to the kitchen. One day maybe we'll take the protective plastic off of the cabinets, but not just yet. Too many paint brushes flying around. So that is the kitchen. It sure is nice to be able to have the three of us in there at the same time. Seb has taken up making cakes and his picnic lunches. Go Seb!

On to the office/guest room. Doesn't it look warm cozy and inviting?

This is the storage room until Lynn and Mark get here at which point I am going to snap my fingers and it is all going to magically disappear......

The main man's bedroom. Seb's got a balcony with a view to the street and parking. Still haven't gotten the proper plants to block the view, but patience my little Jedi, patience.

That's dark burgundy and smoky cigarette smelling off white wall paper 

with a lovely used and abused carpet. 

I did find these treasures penciled on the wall after peeling off the paper. 

Very Tim Burtonish, was sad to paint over them.

Umbrella man, 

an extra back up umbrella and bird man.  

Under that lavish carpet was this ever so lovely blue lino. Here his walls are painted white and I did the back wall in a silver/grey wallpaper. 

Presto, new floor in, ready for the little guy.

Here's the swanky view coming out of the office towards the kitchen. 

I'll spare you the bathroom shots. Just an old outdated bathroom, but functioning so we are happy as clams to be able to be washing our paint brushes as well as our dusty grimy selves in a not so new bathroom for the moment. Patience my little Jedi. 

On to our bedroom.....

More purple...if it's not dark burgundy, it's purple.

Lots and lots of purple. 

Don't have any after shots yet, but it just needs the baseboards installed on three walls and EVERYTHING in there is finished down to the new outlet covers. 

This is the view from our bedroom and I am just realizing that in the month since I took this picture how much all of the shrubs and flowers have grown. There are tons of birds around here and they are pretty loud, better than our old loud neighbors. 

Our stupid cat has also taken to jumping off our window ledge (only at 4am) and then meowing until I wake up and go outside and fetch him. After the third time, he did figure out how to jump onto Seb's balcony but still meows to wake you up and let him in. Thankfully the hot spell is over so we don't have to sleep with the windows open for dodo to jump out. 

And last but not least the living room. 

Not much has changed in here except the fact that there is no longer a washing machine in it. The  couch is still wrapped in plastic up on it's side, and it's more or less our workshop. The walls need repainting, the floor needs to be redone, curtains and floorboards painted. Patience my little Jedi.....

So there you have it.....our crazy work in progress. Not missing the old hood or neighbors. Happy to have a place to invest our time and energy in knowing that it's ours.