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aruba apartment house tour video – 6 months in

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Yay! The magic of the USB cable has been restored which means there are some great photos now on this handy laptop and available for sharing. And all kinds of not so great photos.

tile cutting fail

Can you say #tilecuttingfail?!?!? And then there’s the time I intentionally broke a bunch of tiles into millions of little pieces.

removing tile with a hammer drill

But today, as you read this a smattering of people I don’t know are in our apartment installing our new kitchen cabinets. (Insert inappropriate number of exclamation points here.)  And I, most likely, am an annoying onlooker chomping at the bit to get my hands in there and start some organizing.

I may have busied myself last week perusing organizational aisles in our home improvement stores dreaming about handy lid dividers and shelf partitions. Big dreams!!

So let’s distract ourselves with a little peek into what things kind of look like around here these days until I can actually start stacking some plates on shelves. Kind of, because this video was taken on August 2nd. 6 months after we moved in … and almost 2 months ago.

On the up side, that means both of our babies made it in the video. 🙂  On the down side, I still apparently refuse to shower before putting myself on video. 🙁

A few noteworthy points:

  • the guest bedroom looks exactly the same today, except the stove is out of the box and ready to participate in the new era of the kitchen
  • we are in talks with the same company who made our kitchen cabinets to solve our big little hall bathroom issue with a single vanity cabinet and built-in around the fridge which hopefully will be less in your face and more nestled into the corner
  • when describing the current dish washing situation, when I say “luxurious” it is to be interpreted as something that gives me hives
  • I hope you love the new cabinets and shelving in the living room as much as we do, we can’t wait to see that area complete with the built ins below … which will also solve a bit of the mess problem in the guest room with the added storage
  • watching it now I’m glad we have the video evidence of this stage of the project, we have such high hopes for life-after-new-kitchen it will always be a good reminder of what the prehistoric-life-before-new-kitchen was like
  • sorry, as always, for all of the lighting issues … pesky sun  😉
  • 1:51 makes my heart explode

Enjoy!

[youtube=https://youtu.be/P0OCog7iNNs]

Comments

  2. You have made such beautiful progress in 6 months….who can work in that paradise…I would be stopping every so often to sit in front of that amazing view. Had to shed a tear when I saw precious Mico.

  3. Loved it–and your new appliances look pretty darn cool–stainless steel in the dining room!! SO glad you are able to re-route the water pipes from that post. We actually had to get something like that post because of a slab leak. Mom did NOT want the floor tile taken up to put in new pipes that could spring a leak down the road and cause another slab leak. So we went UP through the attic and down that post through the granite countertop in the island where the kitchen sink and dishwasher are located.

  4. Even though we are in our new house, with a view of the port of San Pedro and Long beach, I love your view so much better. I am hoping that you are going to give a tutorial on the compass, it looks so cool and would look great in my boys room. Jealous.

    • Yay!! I’m so glad to hear you are in your new house. And don’t sell your view short, it sounds awesome. I will definitely share a tutorial for the compass after the whole kitchen is finished and I can get it hung on the wall. Hint: I just used a legal sized piece of paper and folded it in half lengthwise and cut a long triangle to make the templates for the points. 🙂

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