NEW PAINT FOR THE HOUSE

It’s the second Christmas that we spent here at our new house at BP and I guess it is still not fully finished the way we wanted it ...[well, money problems have caused our plans to go awry]. But this time, I told the hubby that I wanted the house to look good in the pictures we shall be posting and so I told him to start painting the walls already. Before the long weekend holiday, the hubby and I shopped for some beige paint at the local hardware and he started painting the walls a nice beige hue...not so bright as to hurt the eyes but just the right cool tint that I wanted. Next we planned to paint the accents a dark mahogany brown so that the beige paint would truly pop out. At least even if we had not really done any major renovations this year, the house would look pleasing to the eye, at least in pictures.

RENOVATING THE KITCHEN

We finally decided to commence our home project of renovating the kitchen – it started at around November 20 though we had the money about a month ago already from Jun’s GSIS Conso loan… We actually had this extension for our kitchen constructed last February 2006 but due to budget constraints we were unable to complete the finishing touches to the kitchen and instead just used it after smooth finishing of the walls was done. At that time, I wrote that we may have to continue the finishing touches (like tiles and cabinets) at a much later time whenever we have the extra money for it… And now I guess is the time… we decided on putting in some tiles, after the hubby had excess money from his GSIS loan that he took out to help him finance his brother’s funeral. But it turned out we spent just a little money and relied mostly on dole-outs from relatives and friends (which were quite many, mind you!) And so we had money to tile and paint the kitchen. We hired the same guy who does the tiles for Ate Ne/Inang in their Norzagaray home. He worked slow but sure… The only problem we had with him was that he tended to disappear for a few days without so much as a text or warning…then he would come back without much ado and go on with his task just whistling and not saying much. He really is a good worker it’s just that he has such an erratic sked that he doesn’t inform us about. We think he may be taking on odd jobs that pay higher than we do…well, that’s his choice but he should have informed us and not left us hanging. As a matter of fact, the last few tiles underneath the sink were already placed by the hubby na…because he never returned…oh well, I guess this will be the last time we will be getting him na…But at least, he did good work on our kitchen – just check out the pics!