one star review of this weekend
4 Sep 2020 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneToday and yesterday is Wax's weekend but she feels sick and is also having a constant anxiety attack, which is really not a fun way to spend your weekend and means we can't really do anything. (There are things we can do on our side of the house, just not things that will help in any way with the big problems we have over there, namely, a lack of plumbing, electricity, and kitchen and bathroom fixtures. But, like, there's things we can paint, wallpaper, move, tidy up, etc. We can't really move our stuff over there en masse because the spare room doesn't have a floor yet, the dining room and hallway are full of kitchen and bathroom fixtures that aren't hooked up yet, and the living room is full of construction materials; but we could probably move a few things.) There are things I can do alone, but I can do them any time and they're even less useful than the stuff that needs both of us. And of course, we can't help feeling that there's no point (and PANIC SPIRALLING) when the contractors disappear without warning and change their minds about whether they're available within a pre-agreed timeframe.
On the plus side, Wax's little brother offered to try to negotiate with the contractors for us. I mean, it's probably bad overall to have your out-of-state brother call contractors for you, but on the other hand, he is also a part owner of our house and it's his tenant too, so. Whatever. And also, someone who isn't panicking is always a better candidate for a phone conversation.
My current livingroom plan is to paint the current ugly tile hearth under the stove matte black (this would be the more normal choice for hearth tiles: they'd usually be soapstone) and use the wallpaper to make rollerblinds for the room's two windows, with any extra being hung on the wall without actually being glued TO the wall (with hanging rods, like). And probably an avocado color on the masonry chimney wall in the corner. I'm a bit bummed that we didn't pick a bolder green in the first place, but OTOH milk paint is cheap and easy to obtain and easy to use so maybe someday in the future we'll revisit the wall color in there.
On the plus side, Wax's little brother offered to try to negotiate with the contractors for us. I mean, it's probably bad overall to have your out-of-state brother call contractors for you, but on the other hand, he is also a part owner of our house and it's his tenant too, so. Whatever. And also, someone who isn't panicking is always a better candidate for a phone conversation.
My current livingroom plan is to paint the current ugly tile hearth under the stove matte black (this would be the more normal choice for hearth tiles: they'd usually be soapstone) and use the wallpaper to make rollerblinds for the room's two windows, with any extra being hung on the wall without actually being glued TO the wall (with hanging rods, like). And probably an avocado color on the masonry chimney wall in the corner. I'm a bit bummed that we didn't pick a bolder green in the first place, but OTOH milk paint is cheap and easy to obtain and easy to use so maybe someday in the future we'll revisit the wall color in there.
