At home in the mess

I have spent the day cleaning up what I can. Kitchen, bedroom and livingroom have been dusted, vacuumed and mopped. 10 loads of cloths and other textiles have passed the washing mashines. I have swept the hall to get rid of as much as possible. I guess it’s just me left now.

I plan to go to Petra’s place and have a shower before going to the cinema. I have changed my mined of what I’m going to see, so instead off Russel Crowe I’m going to see a new Swedish movie.

By the way this is how it looks in the bathroom right now. I’m a bit disappointed about the floor. I had ordered the joints to be dark but as you can see they are not. Guess who will be on the phone at 7 am on Monday.

Wall

After several days with nothing happing the guy turned up yesterday. I had to leave work in a haste to show him how I wanted things. He had held my drawing the wrong way. Later he called and told me that my measurements were wrong since he had to start from the middle. This meant that my drawing was wrong and I told him that he could do the tiles the way he thought looked best. Today I went up to have a look. I’m not sure what to say. Perhaps it will be better when the shower is up.

Anyway this is how it looks right now.

He is still standing and it’s snowing

Now I am worried

A quick visit at home to water my plants and to check out the bathroom.
Monday the man in charge said they would start the tiling on Thursday, Tuesday it was Friday so today I got worried when I saw the walls. Will they be ready on Friday when I’m moving back home.

And when I do I’ll have some serious cleaning to do. This is how my hall looks today.

Any way … He is still here!

First update

I have been up twice since they started on Monday. It’s a mess at home. My hallway is filled with stuff. I could hardly make my way to the bathroom. My poor plant that I couldn’t move was in a mess, I pushed it back into the pot and dirt and can only hope that it will survive this adventure.

On Tuesday the bathroom looked like this …

Yesterday I went strait to my yoga class and then home to Petra without passing my flat. Today it had advanced to this state.

After work tomorrow I’m first going to check into the hotel and then head home to my brother’s to take care of my niece and nephew for the evening. New photos will be up during the weekend.

Something else that has been up for the first week is the strawgoat.

Now it just need to survive another 22 days until it's Christmas.

Stella

Stella has accepted the sofa as hers. The sign is that she hid her candy among the pillows and then made a "nest" with the rest.


Stella has had a hard time with all the changes at home and to make things worse. One Saturday morning I found her in my bed among pillows, blanketts and her stuff too. I was mopping the floors.

Renovation update

During the past months things have changed on the outside and inside. It took the constructors about 6 weeks to finish. Today all that is left to do is the planting.

But as you can see that will have to wait …

On the inside:

Well, after having the kids over for an evening I was left with just a few books, the rest found new homes. Getting rid of my childhood books meant I could go on with the next steep and today the room has got a new function.

Now, moving the couch from one room to another meant that I needed to get a new one and one thing led to another. With that said I now have got rid of even more furniture.

As I’m writing this I’m staying at “Hotel Lagerbäck” aka one of my dearest friends home. For 8 nights this will be my home with a break during the weekend when I will be staying at a hotel. Now that is something I haven’t done before, staying at a hotel in my home town. Reason for this. Let say this is how my bathroom looked when I left for work …

And this is how it looked when I came home this evening.

Renovation time

Right now there are renovations going on both on the outside and on the inside.

A few months after I moved into my flat October 97 I suggested at a meeting that we should do something about the grounds around our houses. I was made fun off. Now 13 years later things are happening. On the 6th of September things happened, well it really started last year when we got to see the suggestions a landscape architect had done. Earlier this summer I came home for lunch and the large tree outside my balcony was gone. And on the 6th of September things really started to happen.

Last Saturday, a month later ...

I have to admit I’m a bit worried that they won’t be able to finish before the snow comes. I do not want to think about how it will be outside if they don’t.

Now that was the outside. …

On the inside this is happening.

On the 29th of November they will start knocking down the walls in my bathroom. It is going to be new walls, floor with floor heating, a ceiling with spotlights and new furniture Stella will once more be staying with my parents but this time it will only for a month before we get to be together again.

Another thing that is going on is that I’m finally doing something with my spare room. That room has been storage when I have been working on the other rooms, it is my computer room, my library, that is where I put things I need to keep but don’t know what to do with and so.

I have carried 8 paper bags with books and the same amount with cross-stitch magazines to the Red Cross shop. Next Friday the kids are coming over for a “tacos and book choosing evening”. I hope that when they go home none of my, my siblings and parents childhood books are left in my living room. If there are, a choice will be made depending of age and memory. Are they my teenaged books no problem – Red Cross next, my parents old books – storaged.