It’s not often that I have an entire weekend to spend with Chris. He works so, so much…a “short” day for him is usually still a 12 hour shift AND he works on Saturdays. Luckily for me he told his boss he was NOT coming in this weekend, so I got to spend a whole TWO DAYS with him!
My plan for the weekend consisted of:
Dinner
Movies
Videogames
Book Reading
and Sleep.
…yeah, right. With Chris home for two whole days we ended up doing the following:
Kitchen renovation (fixing hole created by Chris & my dad while fixing the plumbing in the bathroom above)
Bathroom renovation (removing everything from the walls, painting & installing new fixtures)
We DID manage to get to the cinema last night!
And we did manage to have at least one meal together lol
I can’t complain though…we have a lot of great ideas for this house and with him working all the time nothing ever gets done. I know that makes me sound horribly lazy…”Why doesn’t she just do it herself?”…The answer, my friends, is that although I’m not Canada’s Worst Handyman, I’m not great at it either. My dad has taught me a lot, but I don’t feel comfortable doing most of the work without help or supervision. lol
Take, for instance the bathroom project. I’m totally fine painting and lying floor tiles…but I can’t paint until the light fixtures, mirror & (gigantor) medicine cabinet are off the walls. I wouldn’t have an issue with the medicine cabinet if it wasn’t as big as my closet (seriously people..it’s unnecessarily large), but I definitely don’t want to mess around with anything electrical (history of electric shock) and the mirror is a total no-go. I’d end up shattering it and/or slicing myself up. My bathroom would end up looking like a scene from Dexter. I’m too accident prone… Half the time I can’t even walk straight. lol
The bathroom is pretty small though, so it’s not a huge project.
Here’s a before and during (still waiting for paint to dry):
BEFORE
PAINTED!
it’s already bigger without the medicine cabinet/closet in there. Here’s the new lights & cabinet we’re putting in!
Then we’re installing a rounded shower curtain rod.
The last things on the list are new floor tiles and a new counter top to match everything, but those are also the more expensive things…so they may have to wait a bit. I’m also still not 100% sure what colours I want for either.
As for the kitchen…well that’s still a work in progress.
One leaking drain = one big hole in the kitchen
But Christopher knows drywall, so it’ll get done…eventually lol
Once it’s complete we’ll be repainting & wainscotting the kitchen. I’d like to get new cupboards too, but I highly doubt that’ll be anytime soon…so for now we’ll just repaint them white, and try and keep chris’ dirty mits off of them! lol
We have a list a mile long of what else we plan to do, but it’ll be spread out throughout the year. We also plan on vacationing to Cuba (or somewhere warm) this year, so I don’t want to spend ALL our money on home projects!
xo.
L.H.
~Lori Hobin~ 