Renovations ‘08 Begin
The upside of the economic downturn is that my builders are free to begin the next phase of our renovation project. The downside of course is that if we need to borrow money it’ll be that much more expensive.
However we’re pushing ahead anyway, working our way through our building consent and we’re up to the last phase of that. We’re making a bigger bedroom for the boy out of the old study & old bathroom, tarting up our bedroom, making an upstairs deck, putting big doors on to the downstairs deck from the kitchen, and reworking the old downstairs bathroom & kitchen into a scullery & kitchen combo.
In the meantime the contents of 3 rooms (including the boy) are all in the front room (bye bye trampoline room you were fun for the winter), and the contents of the kitchen are variously in the lounge, and in the office (bye bye Dean).
Kitchen pack up isn’t quite done, it’s just got to the annoying stage. It’s a little unclear how long we won’t have any kitchen facilities for, maybe only a week or two, maybe a month or two, depends on the plumber among other things. So we’re accepting invitations to dinner, we’re even happy to cook it 