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Day 35- almost there!!!!!
So- Happy first day of December and Happy we’re almost done with the kitchen. All the cabinets are in but not all of them have doors. We have running water and new electrical outlets. The appliances are all in place- and the dishwasher even has dirty dishes in it- ready to be washed. We are…
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Day 34. Water water everywhere…
Ok, technically not everywhere, just in the sink. Which after 34 days of not having a kitchen sink is quite exciting and entertaining. We take it for granted, but it is pretty cool to have water again. I don’t really understand how water actually comes into our house and out of the tap. I’m sure…
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Day 33
So. I meant to update you all on Saturday afternoon, but I was too busy admiring my new kitchen counters. Yep, we have a place to sit on, lean on and store things on. It’s really made the kitchen take shape since the sink is now in place, the stove top is in place and…
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Day 30- Happy Thanksgiving!
30 days since we started this kitchen caper. And it’s not done yet. Are we cooking this Thanksgiving? No. Am I disappointed? Yes. Did I hope we’d be done by now? Definitely. Are we? Well….no. We are getting close though. Looking back, the first week was a frenzy, and since then, it’s been….. hurry up…
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Day 23- Oh I see now…
Well, guess what. It’s finally coming together. After two marathon days, our kitchen is almost there. And by almost there, I mean I can put cereal in the pantry and food on the shelves. Our dishwasher is in place, and we have inserts in our drawers. In other words, we’re close, oh so close to…
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Day 22- the light at the end of the tunnel?
Are those shelves I see? And doors? Progress is happening…. I’m so excited that our kitchen storage is starting to take shape. There is a glimmer of hope that one day, someday we will have a kitchen again.
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Day 21- So, how’s the kitchen going?
Better than a cruise on the Titanic but not exactly smooth sailing. It is a question that I’m getting asked a lot these days for obvious reasons. People who have renovated before are more than happy to commiserate and share their horror story of the renovation that took 6 months instead of 6 weeks or…
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Day 8- So there’s good news and there’s bad news
Yes, it’s Day 8 but nothing has actually happened in the kitchen since Day 4. The good news is that the appliances, dishwasher and sink have all arrived. The bad news is there’s a shortage of tradesman at the moment thanks to the lockdown, Covid, and a few other factors so we can’t find anyone…
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Day 4- Crisis Averted…
They say on your wedding day something will always go wrong and I’m pretty sure the same is true with renovations. I don’t remember anything going wrong on our wedding day and I’m sure in a few years I won’t remember anything going wrong with our reno. And to be honest, so far nothing has…
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Day 3- I see where this is heading…
So, not to jinx us- but things are going relatively ok with this renovation thing. We’re exactly three days in- and things are taking shape. Yes, at the moment there is dust everywhere and a pile of dishes to wash in the laundry that I’m still getting my head around how to wash but it’s…
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