Gutted

That's how the small bathroom by the our bedroom has looked for five days now.
Today our friends began to work there, but not after a big setback because a plumbing puzzle -- how to fit in the new shower drain as well as the new shower -- that took all day. The kitchen is also undergoing a huge transformation. I hope to post pictures soon, in spite of the fact that I'm only using our video camera (which takes 3.2 megapixel photos) to take pictures. These here come to you as a courtesy of my friend's camera (her husband is helping us and he brought her camera with him yesterday).

I asked another friend to take the boys for the day and she thankfully did. I had a most chaotic morning, trying to empty all the cabinets while they sanded the lower ones and put the new countertop. My previously nice living and dining rooms are chaotic right now, with kitchen appliances, food, pots, pans, plates, strewn everywhere. While they were installing the countertop the new ceramic cooktop arrived, so they installed it. Poor K spent the day running from one home improvement store to another...

The boys will soon be home and we cannot cook, only in the microwave. We can only enter the kitchen tomorrow, but that doesn't make too much of a difference because the cabinets (which right now don't have any doors) still need to be sanded so we can put the stuff back.

This picture was taken yesterday and it shows how sanding will totally transform these ugly brown cabinets: A dream come true -- which I won't get to live, most probably, but that's the subject for another post.