Saturday, November 15, 2008

More hardware arriving

Picked up some goodies from the post office today:

For now it's stored in our temporary apartment, awaiting installation...
Meanwhile, back in ap. 123, inspection is blocked due to new tiles in the entrance - so we will remain curious until Monday evening.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Floor drying, ready to paint

Another status meeting this morning, but not much to report. Unfortunately the final varnish on the floor was put on as late as Sunday morning, which meant that Monday and Tuesday nothing was happening except the varnish drying properly. And it doesn't seem to be any time to spare until we have to start moving back, in just a little over a week, so losing those days makes us a bit worried.

Yesterday they covered up the floor to protect it from paint and dirt, and all the stuff stored in the kitchen has been removed.
Talking of kitchen - some new stuff has arrived and is currently occupying the middle of the living room:

But for now, the workers are about to lay tiles on the floor in the entrance and the ktichen - and to start painting the walls!

We still haven't decided on which color (of blue) for our bedroom, but we'll be checking out another test color asap and hopefully it'll be the right one!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

It's been all about the floor

... these last two weeks.

It took well over a week to install the mosaic parquet, and when done this Tuesday it looked pretty much like this:
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The rest of this week a guy was polishing it, and yesterday he was done laying lacquer on it. On today's inspection we were very pleased to see that the result is a beautiful and elegant floor!!
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For the following week the plan is to paint (all?) the walls, - and to make the kitchen look slightly better than it does now...