Monday 15 July 2013

After 5 Days

Well it's been a whirl wind week.  My pause in blogging was coincided with a quick trip to the cottage on Wednesday night to play some fish with the girls, read some bedtime stories to them and tuck them in.  It was a pleasure.  Thursday I did a bunch of yard work well into the night which is why my backyard has a mohawk - mowing by feel in the dark just doesn't work very well.  Friday Lex had a ball game (she's permanently taken my spot on the team) after which we drove straight to the cottage.  However before the next week of work kicks-off, take a look at the progress so far.







Please forgive the harsh colour temperature...
I'll get a couple shots tomorrow in a cooler, natural one.

Tuesday 9 July 2013

Day 2 of the Renovations

Well it's day two of our kitchen renovations and it's coming along nicely.  After the drastic change from day 0 to day 1 the progress on the floor and the walls isn't nearly as noticeable, but it's a beautiful thing to see.  This is our first major professional renovation (in a planned series of renovations that will be spread out over the next 7-10 years) and let me tell you, I'm glad we hired the pros.

It's not our first renovation.  In fact it's not even the first renovation to the kitchen.  Phase I of the kitchen renovation actually happened last summer when I took down the wall between the kitchen and the front "lobby."  Said lobby was slightly larger than a closet - the wall had to go.                                  

 


Then of course there was my wife's handiwork on the floor a couple of months back.  You can read about that project HERE.  In retrospect her attempt at doing the flooring is even more funny now.  Apparently there were seven layers (SEVEN) of flooring.  The bare hardwood planks on the bottom, covered by two layers of linoleum tiling one on the other, then a layer of plywood and three more layers of linoleum tiles.  Lex and the girls would have been working away for sometime.  I guess the family that owned the house before redid the flooring every six or seven years on average.   I hope ours lasts longer.  If not, then by the time I complete the series of renos we have planned, it'll be time to do the kitchen again.  And so it goes.

DAY 2:  Notice the flooring...oooh yeah!

Monday 8 July 2013

Out With the Old

Yesterday.
 This Monday set into motion the first of a few planned renovations to our house (dependent on how long we stay in this house) - the kitchen.  We live in one of those cute little war veteran houses built about 60 years ago or so.  While I often declare with pride that they are deceptively larger than they look, this statement does not apply to the kitchen.  Somehow it looks bigger than it actually feels...and it looks tiny to begin with.  It was a stretch having two people actually working in the kitchen at the same time.  You want to take something out of the oven while the dishwasher is being loaded or emptied?  Forget about it!  Whatever was in the oven - let it burn!!  There is no way the dishwasher and oven can be open at the same time - it was physically impossible apart from some quantum physics that may allow for two objects to occupy the same space-time simultaneously.  I just noticed my tenses are all over the place when writing about the kitchen.  To be honest I've always struggled to write in a constant tense, but in this case it's because the kitchen was just torn out today so I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that my kitchen presently resembles a room in a abandoned, derelict house.  

Let me show you.

Today.