Red doors

Finally, we're no longer living out of two little plastic boxes. The cabinet maker came by yesterday to install our new pantry and both of us are more than happy with the results.



There were a few issues with the measurements so what started out as an hour long job actually spread into about five hours all up with trips back and forth from the workshop. Gotta feel sorry for the guy when he already gave us a good price for the work and ended up spending most of his Saturday fixing mistakes that probably weren't even his. What makes it worse is that he would have actually made more money an hour working at McDonalds. Sometimes life just isn't fair. :P



Ahhh glorious food, and so much more space to fill.

More snaps from home

Finally got a chance to take some pictures of the house in decent light on Monday. Still lots more to be done to the house before it's "perfect" but at least we're making progress.

The first thing I thought when I opened the cupboard door in the second bedroom was "This'll be great for my boardgames". Reckon I was right. Scary thing is I'm actually missing a few that are out on loan at the moment so I'll have to take another picture when the full collection is back.



How good is it to have stairs?! It actually feels like we have a house rather than a unit.



Lounge room is pretty much all set up though we are eagerly awaiting the delivery of our couch. Major downside at the moment is we don't have any space to play DDR. :(



Our skinny little balcony. Only room for two to sit on the table but it's better than nothing I suppose.



My dungeon (study) under the stairs. Going to have to get around to framing our degrees to put on the wall. Better than letting them crumble to dust in our document files.



More pictures to come this weekend when the cabinet is installed hopefully.

Connected!

Hurray! We have Internet again! Looks like settling into the new place didn't take as long as we envisioned. Pretty much got everything put aside and set up by mid last week. Telstra connected our phone line on Friday and iiNet have obviously already processed our ADSL application. So far so good.

Must admit there have been a few hiccups along the way though. Settlement didn't go nearly as smoothly as we would have liked thanks to the vendor's retarded solicitor. Bugger failed to fax through confirmation of settlement so the real estate agent couldn't give us our keys. They actually had to call the vendor who was in Spain at the time to get verbal approval. Common sense prevailed in the end thankfully.



Moving all our stuff across in three days was pretty challenging too. Lots of driving to and fro, dumping heaps of junk on the floor to be sorted later.



Fish made it safely even though I almost killed my back carrying the tank over with the fish inside. That's the price we pay for being too lazy to transport them individually. Thankfully there were no casualties



And then there's our problem with lack of cupboard space...



Thankfully most of the mess has been tidied up and we've made arrangements for blinds and a pantry to be installed in the coming weeks. I haven't had a chance to take some pictures of the place with our stuff in it but I will this long weekend. Both of us are very happy in our new home. :)