Archive for July, 2008


operation: temporary configuration

so, we can has house.

woo! :-D

it is very awesome.

we’re very mostly unpacked (although we again have a single room full of “let’s sort that bit out later” junk), but lots of things aren’t in quite the right place. we’ve plonked everything down in an “okay for now” spot so that we can live here and be happy. bookcases slightly too wide for the slot, couch not in quite the right spot for maximum fireplace sit-and-watch-age, that kind of thing. but we are happy :-) .

so, some quick pics:

L to R: cool morning light in the kitchen; dining room; more kitchen light.
kitchendining roommore kitchen light

L to R: lounge from the kitchen, with parfait and meep and sproing; Shower of Doom; entrance hall.
loungeshowerentrance hall

Bonus material: sign used to ward off builders before the cats were allowed to roam the house.
sign
We released the cats out into the house a week or so ago, and let them outside yesterday.
Followed them around for a bit, then left them to their own devices.
About ten minutes later we hear plaintive mewing from sproing.
We locate the sound over the back wall.
I get a ladder, climb to the top, and make cat noises.
Sproing then jumps up onto wall and says hello.
He forgot to take his GPS with him, obviously, and got losted (not trapped, as we feared).
Feline overlords, eh? *shrug*

Making the house into a home

And also making it not so frelling cold.

So, Monday night was a bit odd.
Cold, boxy, slightly miserable, actually.

Tuesday day was better.
Much better.
We now have a shower*, a Garden Rhapsody** (thanks, Jeremy!).
We also have bookshelves full of books again, a little workstation with printer and stuff again, an entertainment stuff area*** and a painting or two up on the walls.

Everything is kind of temporary (wrong place, on the wrong thing, etc.) but it feels nice.
It’s looking like our house now, not like a house with all our boxes in.

Big Thing to do tonight is unpack the kitchen.
We’ve been waiting for the floors to dry before throwing heavy machinery and workbenches on it.
Yesterday it was almost ready, but not quite.
Given how important food is to our lives it’s been quite odd being without food making ability for so long…
Having the cooker back in place will make a big difference to our Life’s tyle.
Ahem.

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* – pics to follow. Installed by a classic German. He was horrified at the slant of bits of wall – millimetres out! also, we can’t use it until tonight – drying the sticky bits.
** – which we will obviously appreciate more in summer.
*** – so we can veg tonight. we needs it, precious.

So, we’re moving into the new house tonight.

Tonight.

!

:-)

We need to do a bit of drilling to put curtains up in the bedroom (so that we can sleep and walk around naked. and sleepwalk naked), and move lots of stuff around, but otherwise we’re pretty golden.

Wish us luck…

seems like it.
woo!
well, i’m saving my woos until we’re actually finally there, but…
looking good.

tiler bod finished up on friday.
tiles much, much, better.
to be honest, still not perfick, but definitely good enough to say “fuck it, that’ll do.”

and main boss bod and painter dude were there today and are back tomorrow to finish the floors.
yay!
then we just need to wait until Monday night (I think) and then we are Finished™.

(

Except for a few little bits and bobs, but let’s not talk about that…
And don’t mention the deck and the pool.
:-\

)

Ho hum.

So, work continues on the house with all our stuff in.

And, unfortunately, with every passing day I’m becoming less and less satisfied with our builder.

To be fair, he is trying hard, but his sub-contractors are letting him down a bit.

We should be living there right now. Our stuff and our pets are there: we should be too.

I want to feel like our house is now the top priority job (which I think they are treating it as) and that everything on it should be done as quickly as possible (which I don’t feel is happening).

Jo talked to the head builder dude this morning.

Tiling guy is coming in tomorrow, shower people a day or two later, and so that lot will be finished by Friday.

It is seeming likely that the floors won’t get done until next week.

I’m bitching and moaning a lot, but it’s not so bad, I guess.

Crashing at Doc and ELs is actually a lot of fun. It feels like a holiday.

I don’t like imposing though, and our house should be fucking finished, dammit!

Again I say ho hum.

:-(