Back On Track

And now we're back to our regularly scheduled apartment renovations....finally!
Nothing too big to report on, but the fact that things have been moving forward is good enough for us (and that's all that counts right?).

I'm not sure if it has been said yet but we are officially moved up into our attic due to a full capacity down below. Actually we've been up here for a month already, and although we are miles from a true apartment  (defin: An apartment (in US English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building.) we are really loving all the amazing space that it has to offer. And that small amount of dust that we've had to deal with *this may change now that we're back to reno's is a small price to pay for the time we're getting up here to truly discover what this apartment really wants. Think a fresh airy palette with splashes of colour, a DIY quirky kitchen, and loads of storage. Once most of the general renovations are finished our first project will be to tackle the bathroom space, but I wont get too ahead of myself.

Anyways as of this moment we've got the framing up for our bedroom and bathroom spaces, as well as the outside dry walling of the bedroom wall. Both walls (plus the entry) are going to remain in a half finished state for a little while before we get all the wires, pipes, and cabling sorted.... better to live with half finished walls than having to knock out walls if something gets missed.

All those beams are also getting a bit of a face lift, if you remember a few months back they were all being sanded down (when the sanders felt like working). Of course we couldn't freshen up those beams without giving them a bit of protection, so with a little help from a friend all those beauties are getting a lovely coat of matte lacquer. Finding the lacquer was a bit of a pain though as we made the mistake of getting a wood protection in the same colour as the beams themselves. However upon opening the can we discovered a greenish liquid, not at all what we had wanted. To make matters worse the store wouldn't let us return it!

The conversation went like this...
Evil Belgian Hardware store "You can't return it because you have opened it"
Gregg  "yes, but it's GREEN - clearly not what it shows on the can" as he showed them the stir stick
Evil Belgian Hardware store "what if we take it back and another customer doesn't like it?"
Gregg "That's not my problem, but i'm not happy with it"
Evil Belgian Hardware store "But you opened the can"
Gregg "yes, but it's GREEN"
Evil Belgian Hardware store "what if we take it back and another customer doesn't like it?"

This continued full circle a few times before Gregg decided that we had to cut our losses, and pick up a can of colourless and pray that this too wouldn't be green.

So here's the beams as they look now, and for comparison you can see the angled beam on the right has not yet been lacquered. What do you think so far?