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.

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

Bonus material: sign used to ward off builders before the cats were allowed to roam the house.

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*

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, the paint-a-thon continues – lots of the house done, inside and out.
i’ll take some pics, in daylight, at the weekend.

the tiler dudes are in at the moment, observe their work in progress:

kitchen o’ doom, tiles o’ red

bathroom: sinking, showering and bathing.

arf!

1: we can almost has doors!
2: we can almost has tiled counter top and sink!
3: we can almost has shower!

to follow soon-ish: pictures of the lights.
of especially funishness – reading light in ceiling of bay window.
try and entertain yourselves until then… (-_-)

eventually… :-]