Not much work, lots of fun

With me out of town and Rob on single-parent duty in my absence, not a lot of work has gotten done around the house since my last post.

There has, however, been loads of this type of fun:









Not to brag, but the pool hit 80 degrees today. We like it here, yo.

Primed

Life goes on, and work continues.

As fair warning, this will be our last update for a week, as I will be heading out of town. I have no doubt that Rob will accomplish a lot of work while I am away, and I can't wait to see his progress.

In other blog-related news, I have finally installed a proper spell-checker on our home computer, so my mis-spellings like bannister and lovley will plague you no more.

Speaking of the banister (proper spelling), now that the it is in place, the stair risers have been primed and are ready for painting. Please note my fabulous taping job. Applause, applause.







The kitchen is almost prepped for painting and for the backsplash to be tiled. The drywall has been mudded and sanded and mudded and sanded and is ready to go.



And, we have plants in our garden. Patrick has been a huge help planting the garden, and clearly inherited his ChiChi Grandma's green thumb. The green leafy things are day-lilies which were split and given to me by a coworker. I can't wait to see what they look like when they bloom!

Progress

Things are coming along in our new home.

Much to my excitement I saw a photo in Thursday's paper showing that the couch we had purchased just days before was now on super-sale. When I was in the store getting refunded the difference between what we paid and the sale price, I snapped a photo.

You can see the colour we chose (Cappuccino) on this swatch:



And here is the couch itself. Not too big for the room, but plenty of room for us both to stretch out.



We also got a new table for the dining room. It seats four, with an optional leaf to seat six. Since we got six chairs, we've been keeping it larger than the photo below shows.




We also got new stools for the breakfast bar, which makes reading the paper in the morning so much more pleasant.



Meanwhile, in non furniture related news, Rob and Patrick worked hard on installing our new bannister. Here are my two Batmen hard at work!









Meanwhile, I kept busy putting feltac on the legs of our new chairs to prevent them from scratching our newly refinished floors.



And, after a full day's work, we have a bannister!



Here is the view from the top of the stairs. The green tape is me prepping the stairs for the risers being primed and painted.



Up next? More painting, and the kitchen backsplash. We'll keep you posted.

Slowly but surely

We are slowly emerging from beneath piles of boxes and newsprint and packing tape.

This is what the kitchen looked like on Sunday afternoon.




And this is what it looked like last night.







Here's a better look at the kitchen faucet. As of this morning both the sink and the dishwasher are fully operational. This is such great news that I would totally be dancing a happydance right now if I wasn't so darn tired.



Patrick has made a space-ship out of the dishwasher box. He is pretty happy in our new digs.

Moved

We are moved. Well, "moved" in the sense that all of our stuff is in the new house, but not "moved in", in the sense that very little is actually unpacked.

I spent Thursday on a full-out packing blitz. Patrick made forts with all the boxes.



His Father joined in on some of the fort action.



There were a LOT of boxes. Thankfully, as you can see in the background, I had some Girl Guide Cookies to help me through the day.



Our movers were fantastic. Anyone in Ottawa looking for movers, I cannot recommend Kineto Van Lines highly enough. We have used them a couple of times, now, and they do not disappoint.



In decorating/renovating news, we bought a new couch. It will be delivered in mid-July. I forgot to get a photo of the display model, so you will just have to wait to see it, but suffice to say it has plenty of room for both of us to stretch out on.

We also brought home a few tile samples to try to choose a backsplash.



Our clear favorite is the one on the far right. However, it is twice the cost of our second choice, the one on the far left. Debate is ongoing.

We got a lot of work done in Patrick's space room.

The wall stickers I got were not, in fact, stickers, but wallpaper-y things that needed to be soaked.




This soaking had the unfortunate side effect of causing the paint on the space wall to run. So, this wall will have to have paint touch-up done fairly soon.



But, Patrick couldn't care less about a bit of paint-dribble. He is thrilled with his space wall.



We also found a cool rocketship to hang from the ceiling, and a retro 'pinball' game named Blasto, which, coincidentally, was the nickname we had for Patrick before he was born.



You can see that he loves his Tintin poster.



Work on the new bannister is well underway.







But let me assure you... having just last night washed a load of dishes in our camping basin in the powder room, for me, the number one priority is getting the kitchen sink working. We have a plumber arriving at 7am tomorrow morning to do just that. All hail the plumber!