NEW TILES FOR KIT’S ROOM

During the weekend, we brought Kuya Ric with us (the guy who built our house in BP with the help of some pamangkins) so that Kit’s room would be finally tiled. Of late, it had become quite difficult to clean up his room since the dust had the tendency to accumulate underneath the vinyl tiles…so it gives him much reason not to clean hehehe. He started the task last Monday as it was already quite late when we got home. Then, the hubby decided to go on half day on that day so that he can also help out in putting in the tiles since it would be a bit difficult doing that by his lonesome as he would be the one cutting, grinding, mixing cement, bring it up and affixing the tile one by one. But by Tuesday, duty calls and so it was only Kuya Ric again that did the tiles but by then they had already done most of it naman na e…so that by Wednesday, when this photo was taken, the room is almost done, except for the few more tiles left near the door and the hubby said he can already do that by himself. I guess I should be thankful for the likes of Kuya Ric and for the fact that the hubby is such an all-around guy so that we are able to have such things done (almost DIY!) at such a cheap price! Next thing to do now is to paint his walls (he requested light grey so that it would not be too difficult to clean) and some new curtains (also in grey) to make his room look really nice!

PAINTING THE ROOM WITH BLUE SKIES

The hubby went on leave for his birthday and on the two days that he stayed at home, he decided to paint our bedroom...well, technically it was not our bedroom anymore since it had been appropriated by our daughter as hers. In fact, her cabinet had already been moved inside the room and stands alongside mine to make some sort of a walk-in closet for our things, to still give her some sort of privacy even if we are dressing up. Furthermore, she already filled the back of the cabinets with posters of her favourite boy and girl bands. So I guess she has claimed it already now as hers. We decided to just paint the walls white and then just the ceiling would be painted a slight blue tint or even a dark blue one to mimic the night sky...after that we planned to put in some glow in the dark stars so that come night time, the room would be filled with stars in the sky.

But when I got home yesterday, I was quite surprised to see that the paint did not really go as we planned. What he placed on the ceiling was the ghastly blue of a clear blue sky, not light like the dawn when the sun is just rising or dark like the night as I had wanted. He says, he was unable to control the amount of blue paint that he stirred in with the white and it was too late to take it back. So, to balance it up a bit, my daughter and I decided to just put in some white puffy clouds to cover the very striking blue hue. I downloaded some pictures from the web and even watched videos on how to make/paint clouds in walls and ceilings and they seem easy enough...I just hope we would be able to do it as we had envisioned it to be...here are pictures of rooms with some clouds that we want to incorporate, let’s just hope that everything goes well as planned.

FINALLY MY NEW CABINET…YIPEE!

Finally, after more than two months my cabinet is finished! He started doing it on the last week of February after he finished doing my daughter’s lavender cabinet but as I already stated in a previous blog, he decided to change its specifications because he was fearful that we may not be able to bring it up the stairs (since we have such a narrow flight of stairs). Then, he was undecided on whether to use painting or dark wood laminate that we bought at ACE, until he lastly decided to just paint it black, like what I originally wanted! And finally, after two months of waiting, my cabinet is finished!

So, today he brought the cabinet up to the room (with a nephew’s help, of course) and I was finally able to start using it! I know it’s far from perfect because, there were some areas that weren’t very smooth and so the paint tended to chip in these areas that constantly bumped each other. But I am no perfectionist and I am just so happy that it’s finally done! One thing though, since this new cabinet is a tad smaller than the old one, I am having a difficult time making everything that used to fit inside the old cabinet into the new one. But then again the hubby promised to make me another wardrobe type closet like the one he made for the kids. So I guess I’ll have to wait a wee bit longer before I can have everything in its proper place.

And so as part of my efforts to redecorate the room (to blend with the new cabinet and also to lessen some of the frames I intend to display on top of my cabinet) I decided to hang my kids’ baby pictures. So that when I am in bed, I can always look up and see them as small babies - all cute and cuddly faces lit up with a smile, without a care in the world! I miss those babies not that I want to have new babies---definitely not! I just miss those times when they were still so cute and cuddly. Anyway, we could always adopt and borrow little nieces and nephews whenever we want to. Meantime, I will just have my own piece of heaven right here, on this wall.

MY CABINET UPDATE

This time around, I think he was a bit slow in making my cabinet, I guess because he had to change the specifications of the thing just so he can ensure that it would not be difficult in taking it up the stairs. He started it when my daughter’s cabinet was finished by the end of February. And he continued doing it during weekends that we were at home in March. But he was not satisfied with it. In fact, he even had my nephew sand it endlessly until it was so smooth. At first, he didn’t want to paint it, in fact, we already bought laminates at Ace Hardware at SM Fairview but midstream he changed his mind again and decided to paint it black, the color I liked. Here are some pics of the cabinet after about one and a half months of tinkering with it, maybe he’ll be finished with it soon.