Sunday, 11 December 2011

We're on our way fixing all this. Just gimme time.

So, we moved in. The first days we only worked on the wallpapers and slept, climbed over the piles of furniture, put up wallpapers, climbed, yeah you know. Chaos. And, damn, this house is NOT soundproof. And after getting down and dirty on the couch in the living room, we concluded that we have to move the huge mirror in the hallway to another place. I'm pretty sure that the neighbours have seen at least parts of us naked from the yard. Tip people, watch carefully where your reflections show. The shower downstairs has to be fixed because it squeals loudly when one is taking a shower, leading to me only showering upstairs in the bathtub. Oh, and we also had to break loose parts of the kitchen floor to get the old non-functioning dishwasher out (we did know that is was crap because they told us, but that it was impossible to get out? No.). Tip: DON'T LAY DOWN NEW FLOORS WITHOUT CHECKING IF THERE IS STUFF THAT GETS BUILT IN THAT SHOULDN'T BE BUILT IN!

But now, after a month, it's just fine. There's stuff that has to be done, but I'll just go into it with the more we do, the more the house is ours kind of attitude. I wanna cover the entire upstairs with carpet to dampen some sounds, just gotta find the ugliest most 70s style crazy coloured patterned carpet there is, and install it in the hallway. It's gonna be so awesome! People are gonna be all "holy shit, that reminds me of my grandmas basement" when they see it. Also, we taped the loose windowsills back onto their consoles (seriously people) furnished, pimped and puked up all the Christmas decorations and now, we love it. It's cosy, it's us, there's big windows in the livingroom that are framed by the strong chocolate coloured wallpapers, that allow for laying around inside while watching the stormy weather outside. Makes it extra good, ya know? The kitchen is red instead of baby blue (I will never understand this "light colours makes it feel bigger" crap. Bigger? Yes. Alive? No.) and getting ready to get all kinds of pimped up, and we've settled in fine.

But, as promised and long awaited (it's really hard to upload images when there's no intarwebs in the house) pictures of some of the WTF's of this house.

Painted over plaster.

The "let's not take down the lamp before painting the ceiling" complete
with shadowy profile of yours truly in the reflection.


Real gingerbread style work there, especially around that corner, right?

And.. my favourite. I do not think words are necessary here.

4 comments:

Martin Willoughby said...

No photos of the 'bright' walls etc? C'mon, I got my sunglasses out specially.

Wynn said...

Oh no, no pictures needed. They're just white. White white white white white. Because white makes everything so pretty!!!!! And light!! And bright! Puke! It kind of makes me want to cut myself.

Roxy said...

well it's only gonna get better!

Wynn said...

Roxy, that's for sure!