L and I finished the kitchen today. Really, we put in the sink, cook top, sealed and polished the counter tops and back splash. Took the protective plastic wrap off the refrigerator, installed the breakfast pendant and took up the cardboard flooring.
Everything is done except for some little things here and there. We actually, for the first time, saw the kitchen floors next to the granite counter tops. What a difference looking at the kitchen and seeing the transformation happen. On Sunday we went from walking on cardboard, tiles every where, grout on the floor, a disarray of life to all of a sudden everything done. In one day we completed all the last pieces of the puzzle and it just fell together.
We finished the Dining room too. We hung the chandelier, bought chairs, hung pictures and placed everything just right. It looks amazing. It went from a crummy office that was closed in to a very open, RED, luscious formal dinning room. What a change, can’t wait until we get to use it. Taking down the wall that separated the dinning from the entry way was a brilliant idea! With that being said this project has totally left us without any energy. We’re starting to get short with one another and getting into arguments more frequently.
This project is like crack!!. Once you get addicted you ignore everything else in your life except for that drug. We don’t go out, we don’t go for walks, etc.. We come home, change into work clothes and work for 4 hours. Then we eat, watch a movie for 30 minutes then go to bed. Get up and repeat. After a while it starts to wear on you and the ones around you. I am so looking forward to coming home and not walking on concrete, seeing dust or knowing that there is some thing I have to fix. I’m especially relieved that I don’t have to go up in that attic anymore.
That attic is huge but very very hot and the amount of fiberglass floating around up there is just incredible. Every time I go up there I get fiberglass in my arms. Don’t worry I wear a mask and gloves but still. It’s like a freak’n sauna up there with tiny shards of glass. And you have to be very careful where you step other wise you’ll end up putting your foot through the ceiling and you know what that means… more sheet rocking!!
We also started unpacking. It’s been 5 weeks and we haven’t unpacked a box, until today when we unpacked the kitchen, added pictures to the living, halls and dinning rooms. It’s now becoming our home. As before it was just a shell someone had made for themselves but now it’s ours. I don’t think that, looking back, I could have done it any other way. That house, when we first moved in, was an abomination and it would have killed me to live in it without changing it.
It was hard but I’m glad that we did it all at once and at the beginning. Some might say that we should have taken our time but it was only us that had to live in that kitchen. That had to live in the guest room with green and orange walls. It was us who had to live with black kitchen cabinets, and piss yellow and blue kitchen walls! To me it was visuall insanity and was unlivable. And now I think we can say Yes! We did this and it’s just they way we want it. We made it our own and that way we can feel pride for our house and the work we’ve done. All of which none of this could have done with out L’s support and dedication to completing the project.
Now, we have just 5 days until our housewarming party and we only have a few minor details left until we unveil the new house. Once we get unpacked I will either buy a camera or find mine and show you all the before and afters. It will blow your mind!
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