A complete collapse of confidence
Posted on Feb 23 2011
Leak if you dare, bathroom floor
DON’T ask me why I got so excited when I walked into the apartment on Thursday, 27 January 2011 and found two guys at work on waterproofing the bathroom floor. Perhaps because the drama of the big events — the knocking down and building of walls — had been over for...
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A complete collapse of confidence
THERE are seven days to go — today included — before we move in, and suddenly I do not trust a single one of the decisions I took since the renovations started in November last year. Last night at The Partner’s book launch at The Book Lounge, a friend asked me whether we considered the apartment’s resale potential when we decided to have one bathroom, with only a shower and no bath, and a small guest toilet, instead of a full bathroom and a separate shower room. We did indeed...
Day 43: It’...
PEOPLE everywhere, half-assembled cupboard shells, paint tins, ladders, bits of timber — the apartment was the scene of enormous activity today (Tuesday, 15 February 2011). I visited twice: once...
Day 41: Painting...
FRIDAY, 11 February 2011, was the forty-first day of our renovations. All the tiling work had been completed, and Indahouse, the Woodstock-based company that is manufacturing all our storage space, moved...
Leak if you dare, bathroom floor
Posted on Feb 20 2011
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