Life in the New Zealand Countryside
• Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - Working Hard.
Hi Everyone, Hope you are all keeping well.
I have been very busy working with hubby on our new house these last few days. We decided to do a bit more than what we had planned, one major thing being putting in a new stair case. The old one was fairly rotten in many places and they were a major eyesore for the house. Also stairs just opposite your front entrance, like when you walk in your door you can see directly up the stairs, are very bad in Feng Shui and Vastu. Of course its impossible to follow all the energy guidelines when doing up a house, you may have to pretty much start from scratch, and that means alot of money!! But this improvement came as an aside for putting in new stairs as now the angle of them has now changed, turned by 90 degress, and you will be seeing the cupboard which will be under the stairs, when you walk in the front door.
Every afternoon I leave my son, whos now 15 months, with grandma and head down to our house to put a few hours in. Its really handy to have all our three places, our current house, my mother in laws house, and our new house, all in such close proximity, taking about 10 mins to walk inbetween each one.
Yesterday I began lifting all the old tiles on the kitchen floor. Theyre some kind of plastic/lino creation and absolutely grotty. We will be laying down nice wood, with a coat of varnish ontop. I did about 3/4 of the floor, before grandma came down with Syami in the pram and I went home with him.
We have to be in our new house in 2 weeks time!!!! as we are actually in hubbys fathers house, and he will be returning from overseas and wants his place back. Dont ask about my inlaws living arrangements, LOL, way too many issues there! Hubby thinks we will have the stair case in and the surrounding walls up, but no kitchen. Apart from the living room,, which we havnt touched, and is in resonable shape, there is one bedroom and bathroom on the first floor, that are completed for living. We will have to rough it with no kitchen, but Im sure actually living there will prompt the work to go faster.
I will try to get some pictures taken of the new work done, just as soon as I can get our silly camera to work.
Thats it for now, off to get some housework done before hubby comes to pick me up.
Have a nice day everyone!
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• Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment
wow, an old house in the french countryside. sounds like a dream (if you could stand the french..... I had a few VERY bad experiences the few times I was there.... you are a trooper!)