Well, the deposit has been paid and work on the bathroom starts tomorrow with the demolition & gutting of the oh-so-pretty bathroom. (We’ve postponed the hardwood floor guy to late next week. Bon idee, non?) The painting is 90% complete. They will come back once the windows are installed to finish / touch up the trim.
Claire has set up her own blog: La vie de Claire. If you’d like to brush up on your french or see pictures of Alice, check it out.
Genevieve celebrates her 1 year in remission this weekend! Yay!
Sylvain & I saw the funniest movie recently: Napoleon Dynamite. It’s an off-beat-‘80s-reminiscent (Sixteen Candles, comes to mind)-independent flick that has garnered a cult-following. Though a few lines were given away by the annoying person that sat behind us, we were still able to enjoy the movie. Ch-check it out if you can for not only off-beat humor, but for the moon boots, the red ‘fro and the funky white boy dance. Yesssss!
We also started working on the room downstairs – making minor renovations to make it more comfortable when the contractors start working on the main bath upstairs. Saturday, we spent most of the time just removing layers and layers and layers of contact paper. The previous owner thought that the sticky contact paper wouldn’t stick, so she secured everything with thumb tacks! We also removed the built-in chest that was in the closet. Sunday, was a big day! We went to Home Depot and bought paint, miscellaneous supplies and a new toilet. Then, we went to Lowe’s and purchased Edge flooring for the bathroom, a new showerhead, and…brand spanking NEW kitchen appliances!! A new fridge, gas range, microwave / hood combo, and the mama of them all …the dishwasher! I have to say that Lowe’s is pretty quick – we were expecting the appliances in 2, maybe 3 weeks. Nope. They’ll be delivered sometime next week and they’ll take away all of the old appliances!! Which means we need to bust our butts to lay the new floor before then! It’s going to be a long and tiring week!
The painters should be done today and the hardwood floor man is starting tomorrow. With the paint, the house looks so much better. I can’t wait to see what it will look like when the carpets are removed and the floors refinished.
In the middle of all this – I need to start packing. Are we kidding!? At least we’re planning to hire movers this time around.
Sylvain’s gonna think even less of me now ;o)
Apple just seems to be picking the right songs for their silhouette iPod commercials! Take a listen to Steriogram’s Walkie Talkie Man.
P. Diddy’s sidekick, Mase, ain’t the only one back on the scene…
These guys are too!
Thank goodness for Coralie! Coralie Clément is a French chanteuse and her album, Salles des pas perdus is quite calming. I love listening to it. It’s very jazzy, very lounge-y, very chic. ;o)
So, after a LONG deliberation, I’ve decided that Sylvain & I are going to my 10-year high school reunion. If it absolutely sucks – we can always leave, non? It’ll be fun to re-connect with peeps that I lost touch with and it’ll be interesting to see who hasn’t changed and which people are still BFF (best friends forever!).
I’d be more excited about a Camp Mather reunion – now THAT would be interesting.
I am going to try and stop by the house tonight to check out the paint job. Sylvain says that the dining room is quite…peachy.
The hardwood floor man is starting next week and we just placed an order for our new windows last night. Still so much to do…
Hope y’all had a nice Labor Day weekend. It was another sweltering couple days in the Bay Area. Not a trace of fog…we woke up to beautiful mornings and enjoyed the comfortable evenings. According to the weather reports, it should be like this for another 3 days.
Well, today, the painters arrived at 8.30a and started chipping away the old paint and plastering and caulking the cracks. So, we should have a newly painted interior by the end of the week – how exciting! I just hope that I’m happy with the colors that we chose.
We spent the weekend meeting window people and shopping for appliances – it’s all very mind-boggling. I know it’s early in the whole renovation / remodeling process, but they’re all looking the same to me.
Monday, Sylvain & I treated ourselves to spa treatments at the Kabuki Springs & Spa in J-town. I had the Javanese Lulur Body Treatment. Sounds exotic, huh? It was absolutely fabulous and I highly recommend it! It begins with a massage with Jasmine scented oil, then followed with Lulur, a tumeric & rice exfoliant, continued with a yogurt (yes, plain yogurt) application to moisturize and ended with a rose petal bath in a furo tub. The massage therapist informed me that this was an ancient Balinese practice prior to a wedding. The bride would receive this treatment once a day, 40 days prior to the (arranged) marriage. Once a day for 40 days? I wouldn’t mind one bit. Especially if the body treatment took place here. (I hear that Princess Buttercup indulges in this treatment at Kabuki all the time.)