Last weekend was our first weekend in a long time home alone. Well, I say home alone, the builder was there until 5pm on Saturday but Sunday was a blissfully lazy and relaxing day... until we started to repair and finish the kitchen units! What is it about couples that makes sharing DIY tasks impossible? I have spoken to several couples about it now and am relieved to hear that it´s not just us who have major falling outs over flat pack furniture, appliance installation and just DIY jobs in general!
Anyway, we now have a real kitchen which is a cause for celebration after almost a year using our makeshift laundry/kitchen and storing everything in stacked up tupperware. It still hasn´t been painted, the floor´s only half sealed and we´re definitely missing heaps of things but it´s so nice to have space and storage and an oven finally! And it was great timing because we were getting low on water having had a house full of people during a dry spell and thanks to our ridiculous attempt at a rain dance (thanks ehow.com!) it rained all night and half filled our tanks up meaning we can start cooking and washing up again without being as cautious with the water.
Now that we´re approaching the end of the really big building jobs we started keeping an eye our for furniture to go chipping away at what will be the expensive job of furnishing the fairly sizeable house. In our search we found a nice set of six old diningroom chairs in need of a sand, paint and upholstering so that´s our next DIY task. Tony´s parents are visiting in a few weeks and we´re hoping that they´ll give us a hand with that job or at least mediate for our couples DIY!
Skirting boards are hopefully being put in today so that will be a momentous occasion seeing as it´s that last thing the builders need to be constantly inside the house (making a mess) for. Cant wait!
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