Another busy weekend both at the house and beyond.
At the house, The Master was busy with painting, painting and some more painting. The house is quite white now. When he wasn't busy painting he was busy assembling the kitchen cupboard, which will hold the stove and oven-top when they are installed.
The Shadow and I were very impressed with how well the cabinet came out. As well as housing the oven it also boasts four drawers and a cupboard. It will certainly do an excellent job for our temporary kitchen - which, once again, will be better than the once we have in our townhouse.
On Saturday the Shadow and I went shopping for bathroom accessories: soap holder, toilet roll holder, towel ring, etc. We saw some items we liked the week before at a store in Richmond but wanted to look at some other places before deciding.
First was Schots, in Fairfield. If we were building a period-styled bathroom then Schots would have been useful. Why anyone would build a period bathroom based on Schots designs is beyond me, I really despite the design. As our bathroom is modern, Schots was not helpful at all. We were able to pick up some cupboard handles, though, which was good. Some designs from the past still look good - bathrooms is just not one of them. Nor is kitchens.
Second was E&S Trading. We were fairly unimpressed with their range. We just couldn't find anything that really suited what we wanted. After a delightful lunch with my mum we headed home via Camberwell and Hawthorn and happened to pass Elite Appliances. We stopped and were quite impressed with their range, both for bathroom products (taps, basins etc) and accessories. We are waiting for their quote to come in.
Sunday we took a quick trip to Bunnings for some temporary glass splashbacks for the temporary kitchen and laundry. The kitchen splashback is dark and the laundry is pale. We are not sure what we want in our future-kitchen, so we are road testing the two styles. May the better splashback win. The Shadow has already laid 400 quatloos on the dark one.
Finally back at the house and while the Master slapped paint on the walls we spent a few hours Saturday and all Sunday afternoon stripping paint from the window in the front. When the Shadow told me during we week we would be involved in Project Window Strip I was quite excited. Then she told me what it meant and I was not so excited. Having spent about 8 hours stripping back the paint, I am what the exact opposite of excited is. However, we were left with a reasonable finished product and the Master was able to lay down some undercoat on Monday. Like everything else, it will look quite ace when it is finalised.
This morning we handed in our intention of vacate letter, so 4 weeks today we will be handing in the keys for our townhouse. The countdown is on!
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Friday, 7 March 2014
Go with the flow
We are now four measly weekends away from our new home. Can I get a 'woo'?
WOOOO!
I may have previously mentioned, we have had a make a few design changes to the back of the house. The old bathroom is a laundry and the temporary kitchen has been expanded for longer term use. It continues to surprise me just how well this is all coming together.
We asked for more kitchen shelving, so we now have more kitchen shelving in our temporary kitchen than we have in our townhouse. And the shelving is far more usable than in our current kitchen, which has quite low usability. We are quite ecstatic about how the temporary kitchen is shaping up.
We were going to purchase a cheap, electric upright cooker and use that until the extension is built. After looking at the range we quickly escalated from cheap to lots. The state of low-end cookers is appalling. So we are now installing a temporary cupboard that will hold the induction cooktop and oven we actually want. A small payment for a cupboard is totally worth it, a cheap stove is not.
Which brings me to the bathroom. The bathroom is all but finished. And it is grand. The basin + tap + cupboard, the bath + features, the shower. It's grand. Grand! GRAND!!
We are very happy with the way the bathroom design has worked out. We spent a lot of time looking at features and also sizing and moving objects around in Visio. We knew how big the bath was compared to the wall length, how much space was left for the cupboard, how much bench space the basin consumed, etc. But those are all lines drawn on a Cartesian plane. Although The Shadow can easily turn 2d into 3d in her minds eye, others are not so inclined. Thankfully I trust The Shadow's mind.
One of things she insisted upon was a mirror the length of the wall where the bath is. We debated the height of the mirror (floor to ceiling, tile, mirror, plaster, etc) but we always planned on having it take the entire width. Similarly with the mirror behind the basin, it needed to be big. The two big mirrors really enhance the feeling of space, as they are designed to do. There was some thought that the high ceilings with relatively small room size might back the bathroom feel weird. I don't find it, and I think the mirrors play a significant role.
Another assistant in making the bathroom work is the skylight. Without it the room is completely dark, with it the room has sufficient light for simple tasks. A little light goes a long way.
WOOOO!
I may have previously mentioned, we have had a make a few design changes to the back of the house. The old bathroom is a laundry and the temporary kitchen has been expanded for longer term use. It continues to surprise me just how well this is all coming together.
We asked for more kitchen shelving, so we now have more kitchen shelving in our temporary kitchen than we have in our townhouse. And the shelving is far more usable than in our current kitchen, which has quite low usability. We are quite ecstatic about how the temporary kitchen is shaping up.
We were going to purchase a cheap, electric upright cooker and use that until the extension is built. After looking at the range we quickly escalated from cheap to lots. The state of low-end cookers is appalling. So we are now installing a temporary cupboard that will hold the induction cooktop and oven we actually want. A small payment for a cupboard is totally worth it, a cheap stove is not.
Which brings me to the bathroom. The bathroom is all but finished. And it is grand. The basin + tap + cupboard, the bath + features, the shower. It's grand. Grand! GRAND!!
We are very happy with the way the bathroom design has worked out. We spent a lot of time looking at features and also sizing and moving objects around in Visio. We knew how big the bath was compared to the wall length, how much space was left for the cupboard, how much bench space the basin consumed, etc. But those are all lines drawn on a Cartesian plane. Although The Shadow can easily turn 2d into 3d in her minds eye, others are not so inclined. Thankfully I trust The Shadow's mind.
One of things she insisted upon was a mirror the length of the wall where the bath is. We debated the height of the mirror (floor to ceiling, tile, mirror, plaster, etc) but we always planned on having it take the entire width. Similarly with the mirror behind the basin, it needed to be big. The two big mirrors really enhance the feeling of space, as they are designed to do. There was some thought that the high ceilings with relatively small room size might back the bathroom feel weird. I don't find it, and I think the mirrors play a significant role.
Another assistant in making the bathroom work is the skylight. Without it the room is completely dark, with it the room has sufficient light for simple tasks. A little light goes a long way.
Just tilt your head to the right a little and you'll enjoy this SO much more.
Basin + Tap + Cupboard = Glory
Basin + Tap = glory
Bath + spout
Shower with one head. The other shower head hasn't been added yet.
Note the twin taps for turning both shower heads on at once.
I'm environmental when I feel like it - when I'm in the shower I take time off from politics.
Bath:
Temporary kitchen shelving:
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