OK, I know I said I'd get back to you about the floors a week ago, and I will, but I firstly need to acknowledge that our 6 weeks is up!!!
That's right, 6 weeks and 3 days actually.
So what have we achieved. Depressingly little, but so, so much. How? When you are living in it every day it's hard to see the changes. We are a week off completing the laundry, 2 weeks away from having all the sub flooring in, 4 weeks away from the back yard being completed, then we need to go through the whole council thing with the pool and I can't even think of when we will begin the bed room and en-suite.
We can afford to have another 7 days on the project on our savings for living expenses, then we need to go back to work and back into the part time renovations.
This has been one of the most fulfilling, challenging, demanding and enjoyable experiences. I am serious, I have loved it! But, we both acknowledge that we want to start to see an end game and we can only renovate for love, I don't think we could do this as an investment, it's too hard!
We've spent the past 3 days laying the tiles and grouting. My hands are red raw, even though I wore gloves and my back hurts from being on my knees for 3 days. Getting the tiles level is really difficult. As I was washing the grout off I could see every imperfection, all the level changes and differing gaps between each tile. I totally acknowledge the art of good tiling and in a way look forward to doing the ensuite so I can give it another go. Hopefully once the rest of the laundry is in you won't look at the little details.
Every time I think we are about to finish this laundry I realise there are another 10 steps. This afternoon we will hang the internal door but it will be at least mid-next week before we put in those damn cabinets.
L x
