progress

It’s Sunday, and tomorrow we are back at work after a week off.  I’m pretty happy with what we’ve accomplished so far.  We’ve painted all of our Glendalough unit, apart from the bathroom, and we’ve changed the light fittings.  We’ve changed the taps and other fittings, and organised a new bathroom door and laundry cabinet.  We had the venetians throughout taken down and professionally cleaned, which saved us having to get new curtain treatments – they came back looking fantastic.  The tiles in the kitchen have been White Knight-ed, so they look brand new and sparkling clean.  Overall, the place looks completely different to what it did when we bought it.

Also, SO decided tonight that the bathroom handbasin had to go.  It had a significant chip in the top right-hand corner, inside the basin, with cracks radiating out from it.  It looked really bad.  Plus, it was so low that only a six-year-old would be able to use it comfortably.

This is what it looked like before SO took to it.  The picture doesn’t show the dilapidated state the basin was in, but you get an idea:

 

After he had a couple of bashes at it, I decided to take another shot for posterity.  The crack had let a significant amount of water into the basin itself, which was putrid, but you have to really look closely to see it in the shot:

Then after SO had finished his handiwork, this was all that was left:

Removing such an ugly fixture was a very satisfying process.

We are getting the flooring laid on Friday.  I can’t wait – this will make it really finished.  We’ve decided to go for vinyl in the kitchen, and carpet for the main area and bedrooms.  (We’re sticking with the current bathroom tiles, for now – we’ll change them when we redo the bathroom properly.)  The vinyl will be the floorboard lookalike stuff, which is nice and modern, as well as quiet.  This is important in a unit, where noise can be an issue.

So generally, I’m happy with how things are going.  If only our other major reno was going as quickly, I’d be over the moon.  Still I can’t complain – our week off work has paid off in major dividends for this unit.  I’d say we’re only about 10 days to a fortnight away from renting it.  Woohoo!