T minus 28 days

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!