New Year, New house... soon.

No photos this time but I hope to be able to put some up this weekend.

The window guys are coming to put in the windows this Thursday (knock on wood), the sewer system will be done tomorrow (Wednesday), the tiles of the basement are finished and all of the heating system and water tanks are in and are doing a great job of taking up every bit of space in the basement. The bathroom sinks, toilets, bidets, bathtub and shower have arrived.

Next week (we hope) we will start putting down the floor tiles of the house. The kitchen counter top (the one that we had fallen in love with... the picture is in a previous post) has been ordered and should be in by the end of the month. Also we went out the other day and ordered all of the inside doors. They are not the nicest, and actually one of the cheapest that we could find but I think that they will still look good.

And this all means that we get to go to my favorite store: Ikea! =) For some strange reason Andrea is not nearly as excited about it as I am. Ok, to say that he is really NOT looking forward to it is more accurate. However this way we get to order the kitchen island/bar and get all of the loose ends, mainly stuff for the kids rooms.

And soon we will be in the house and I won't be tempted to jump from the balcony because of chasing Alice around as she gets at the tv (she won't be able to over there) and undoes the gates (new gates =) ). Also since she will have her own room we can put her to bed whenever and we won't have to wait anymore til Mattia goes to bed before we put her to bed. Oh and forgot to mention that two of us will actually be able to be in the kitchen at once! =) =) =)

Hmmm.... can you tell that I am looking forward to moving?

Well, best be off now... again, I hope to be able to post some picts this weekend or early next week.

Later!

flooring and walls

We just went and ordered the tiles for our floors and bathroom walls. We decided against the wood since it was way too expensive.

Flooring

Bathroom walls.. will only be doing part of the walls with this.

Set Back

Well things have been put on hold a bit. Work has stopped until January and so the new move in goal is middle of March or so. We really hope that the new owners of this apartment that we are in right now do not rent it out right away. If they do, we will be homeless until the house is ready.

So please wish us luck =).

See ya next year!

Heating

Well our house now looks like it is ready for the holidays! This is the floor heating and the oustide paint job. We now have to wait til the windows are ready (they 'should' be ready at the end of this month.. we shall see), put the windows in and then turn on the heat to make sure that all is working. Then we put down the flooring =).

We are trying to decide right now if to do the floor of the entire house in that tile (posted a picture awhile ago) or to do just the kitchen and bathrooms in that and the rest of the house in bamboo flooring. Any opinions?

Update

Well part of the house has been painted (the outside), the wall of our bedroom/closet has been put up and the under roof is almost done (insulation and small wall to block it off so we don't waste heat). The balcony has been partially repared and painted. The rest of it is staying as is since it is way to expensive to do it all.

We had a 'discussion' on if to do a gray 'frame' around the windows on the outside or not (just paint around the windows gray) and I am happy to say that we will not be doing it. It is I guess common on old homes here but I think that number one, it is ugly and number two, if it was a darker yellow (like some of the older homes), it would be one thing but since it is a faint yellow, it would not look good at all (read reason number one).

Anyways, here are the picts =)

Closet wall, on the right will be our bed and you can see the door to the closet just left of the center of the photo. The doorway on the left is the doorway of our room.

The inside of the closet

Outside wall of closet

Paint color

The outside

The house is moving along, the insulation is up, the stone at the bottom of the door is in and they are doing the last layer of stucco on the inside walls (the part that they then pain). Then they will be putting up a fake wall thing in our bedroom for our closet area and then the plumber will be coming to lay down the floor heating.

Still hope to be in during the holidays (between Christmas and the 8the of January).

Forgot to mention that they are also doing restoration work on the balcony =).

No picts til next week..

Was not able to get picts this week, but.....

The tubes, wires, etc for the plumbing and electricity is in and they have put down the plaster or whatever to cover them up.

The insulation is finally here and they have started putting that up last Friday but today it is raining (I hope just for today) and so will not be able to work on that today.

Also the kitchen walls have been fixed... they were a bit too tall and so they cut them down a bit.

Good news... we will be able to get the kitchen counter top that we wanted since we will be getting a huge discount (but that is another story).

Anyways, it is all moving along fairly well and still plan on moving during Christmas holiday. For those of you that don't know however, Christmas holiday lasts til the 8th of January, so that does not mean by Christmas time.... altho I really hope that we will be in by then.

Will put up pictures next weekend.

Ciao Ciao!