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.
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!
... 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: 
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!!
For the following week the plan is to paint (all?) the walls, - and to make the kitchen look slightly better than it does now...
Another week has gone by, and we've seen quite some progress these days.
As far as I can tell, the workers are finished painting the roof white. (Or maybe it's just the primer??)
Anyway, there seem to be a lot more left to paint...
They have also painted some more test colors, as we've decided we want something different than white in the second bedroom. Technically it's not exactly a color - we're going for a shade of gray. Probably the one to the right in this picture - the darkest one, called "Poppy Seed", to contrast white furniture. We hope it won't be too dark...!
A new detail we noticed two days ago was that they had heightened the niche floor for The Wife's Buddhist altar.
Something else we noticed on Thursday was that they were getting ready to install the mosaic parquet...
... and after yesterday they we're well on their way with the first room! :-)
Looks like this is "ceiling molding week". Last night we saw they had began mounting ceiling moldings in the new bedroom, and already today they've done several more stretches. 
Here's a half-finished corner in the living room. By the way - the cable sticking out of the cable gate there is for one of the satellite speakers.
This other picture hopefully shows the details of the ceiling molding a little better. 
(From another corner in the living room, - again with a speaker cable sticking out.)
We're quite content with how they look. It's been so long since we chose them, but it's fun to finally see it done. Such details really do improve the overall look a lot.
Earlier this week the real estate agent for the apartment we're renting called to inform us that it's finally sold! In this tough market it took a couple of months, but finally we no longer have to shine it up every other Sunday for a showing. (Wife still enforce her strict rule of cleanliness though!)
The current owner came by today to discuss extending our lease, regarding the delay of the remodeling. Luckily the new owners won't move in until December1st, so we were allowed to stay until a week after the new completion date! :-)
So all is well, and tomorrow we can enjoy another Saturday of checking out furniture. Though sometimes it's more frustrating than enjoyable! Currently we're struggling to choose the right size and type of bed. The new bedroom will be smaller, so we cannot continue with the spacious width of 180 cm. Will 160 be too big as well, or do we have to settle for 140? Unless we find a 150 we like... Life is full of difficult choices! ;-)
What I had thought would be terribly difficult turned out to be blissfully easy: Choosing the colors for the walls.
Thanks to heavy filtering by Llegna, the color selection was narrowed down from 16.7 billion - to 5.
Our new bedroom will use both the alternatives suggested for that room: For the most part "Ice water" (very light blue), but a stronger blue color for the mid wall separating the bed from the wardrobe.
For the rest of the apartment we'll go for "Antique white" (although a green alternative was a bit tempting!)
I realize I've completely forgotten to mention that a week or two ago we decided the color of the floor - or rather, was forced to change our minds about it:
The kitchen and entrance will still have black marble tiles, as we have originally planned. For the rest of the apartment (except the bathroom) we chose what I believe is called mosaic parquet - "parquet flooring made up of small solid pieces of wood (slats) assembled in units" - and we had thought it was a good idea that this too would be black. However, Llegna informed us that others had reported fading of the color on the parts most stepped on, after a year or so of use. We were therefore recommended a color closer to the material's own.
This was not an easy choice to make, but we quickly aimed to the opposite direction of the scale and ended up with one coating of white (which won't look very white actually). We think this will match both black and white furniture - for living room and bedrooms, respectively.
And naturally, the above-mentioned colors for the walls was chosen with this new floor color in mind.
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