Renovation - Week 24

Happy Easter from the rebuilt house. We moved in on Thursday. The place is a mess but it's home!

We've spent the week painting. Most of the living space will be variations of grey and green. It's a very peaceful colour combination, and really brings the outside in.

One thing that had slipped my mind was getting the telephone and internet hooked up. Bell was able to send someone on Thursday, but the builders had lost the end of the line somewhere under the new concrete. So we had to get an "underground guy" to come out to find the line and bring it into the house. Astoundingly, Bell crews work on good Friday, and they got the line set up quickly. Of course, then we had to wait for the inside hookup, but they had someone here at 9 am on Easter Sunday! So now we're reconnected with the outside world.

While we were busy moving in, the crews were busy making the place liveable - finishing up the electrical, plumbing and heating, and providing a temporary railing so that no-one takes an accidental tumble down the new stairway. They also got started on our new deck.