A little bit here and a little bit there.

Well Phil finished off the basement suite just in time for our renters to move in on the 15th but guess what, I forgot to take pictures of it.  So you'll just have to imagine, it looks great.  We are blessed to have great friends of ours living there and so we can just pop up or down for coffee so easily.  It really should help our monthly petrol/gas bill!  See how I provided both the British and the Canadian lingo there!!  Anyway, Phil finished the basement on the Saturday morning and promptly started work again in the afternoon, working for 3 days straight at a hair salon that had shut so he could do some renos for them.  He had one day off and now he's onto a 2 week job.  Needless to say, the final things that need done here at Casa Knudsen might take a little longer.  But thats ok because there's no money tree growing in the garden so its great that Phil has work.

So on his day off between 2 jobs last week, Phil spent a couple of hours up in the attic doing this

Yup, he's blowing in the insullation!  Apparently it was pretty sparse in places but its better now.  Hopefully this will make our home more energy efficient and reduce our electrical bill.  We just got our first one a few days ago - yowza!!!  Heating our fourth floor condo was dramatically cheaper.  Ah well, c'est la vie.  I am very happy we have a house now and will try to embrace the silly bills that come with it.

There's other little finishing touches going on here and there.  The proper pantry cupboard finally turned up and Phil was able to install it.  They had messed up the order and sent us the wrong size.  That was a month long saga and a half but the nice thing is we got our money back for it and now we have some random extra cupboards that we may put in the laundry room.

At this point child locks on the cupboard really help rice crispy insanity on the floor but as you can see they dont all have locks on them yet.

At this point I would just like to boast about my husband who has worked so hard to make such a beautiful home for us.  On his rare evenings off he's trying to catch up on sleep.

But equally, he can be found in the kitchen making pizza dough from scratch..........yup he is truly gifted in all sorts of ways.  The pizza was amazing.

I love him and I love her!

New Year, new house.

Some people have asked if I've fallen off the bandwagon but I assure you I havent!  I may have had a temporary fall off the blogging bandwagon but hey, I wasnt a regular blogger in the first place was I?  So yes it has been a busy time what with finishing off renos, packing up house, moving, Christmas, family in town for almost 4 weeks altogether, and oh did I mention the life growing in me that is wonderful and exciting but certainly leaves me feeling tired and sick (although I seem to be mostly passed this stage).

So yes we are in a NEW YEAR, full of new excitements.  We didnt move into our house until a couple of days after New Year and we are still working on settling in and getting organised.  As I write this I still here bang bang and buzzzzzzz of hammers and drills and saws from downstairs.  You see our tenants (who happen to be great friends of ours = bonus) are moving in to our downstairs suite on Saturday so its full speed ahead to get all that needs to be finished done downstairs.

So there are still some finishings that need to happen upstairs but for now let me give you a sneak peak at how its looking.

Here's my lovely kitchen with the huge island.  Seriously you could sleep on it it's so big.  We still need some barstools and Phil is going to build a book shelf on the end there for Sophia.  We also need a door on the laundry room back in the corner there.......all in good time though.

Next to the kitchen is the dining area with our mini table.  We knew it would look abnormally small now that we have lots of space.  Thats another change we'd like to make, preferably for cheap.  Maybe we'll find a table on Kijiji or UsedNanaimo someday soon.

And then the living room too is taking shape.  Window seat is still to be finished too.

Talking of the window seat.  Here is the view from it down the road to the ocean and Rocky mountains on the mainland on a beautiful snowy morning.

Until next time......