Neighbor's house

This is how cool the neighbor's house and surrounding looked like on christmas eve!

staircase in place!

Matt did a great job together with staircase-carpenter-man. We now have a very nice stair case which we'll paint petroleum (we think) asap. George loves it too, and it's great not to be terrified everytime he wants to go down it. The old one serves as a short fence until it will end up on the fire...

Same day (Monday), the marble worktop arrived! It took five men to carry it up the snowy slope, I had to go outside, was too nervous to look... Now it is in place, looking gorgeous. Already noticing its ability to stain by only standing next to it, so will have to be extra tidy and wipe it down all the time. I'm happy with that, means we'll have a clean kitchen...

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

Matt just sent me this. Nice huh, wonder who lives there?

Bathroom floor

Very annoying to lay, but oh how beautiful. And yes, we still stink, but we do wash properly everyday...

And yesterday we put the kitchen lights in! Sooo nice. Will be connected before Christmas, hear hear!

And we're in!

Believe it or not, but we're in! First night was spent without heating... Poor George had double tops, sweat pants and socks on, myself and Matto had full gear too. We all slept really well though (exhaustion most likely or perhaps it was the champagne), but nice to be in the house finally! The heating is still not working upstair actually, need to get to the bottom of that problem, but nice and warm downstairs, and it seems to creep upstairs somehow a little too, so that's good.

We still don't have a shower (so yes we stink) but we have a toilet and a basin, and yesterday Matt got the gas stove to work too!

And currently, the very brilliant Mr Squire Senior is here to help, and boy is he helping! Sorting us out completely, thanks Andie!

More updates to follow shortly, plus imagery, but in the meantime, here's life in the house (no furniture in living room area cause the electrician needed to get to the space but you get the picture)