Mar
6
Those paper bags…
by Sofia - in Interior design
… on our kitchen floor were a thing that bothered me so much in the old apartment. So when we were planning our future kitchen ( which is larger than my first apartment ( which does not say much as it was teeny) and one of the biggest rooms in the house) I said I wanted to really put aside a proper space for recycling. At least in Finland in larger buildings law requires to have a sorting station for different kinds of trash and as we know none of us can close their eyes from this anymore and ignore basic recycling. It is made so easy for us to at least try to do our little part it would be stupidity not to. Anyhow I told my husband that if and as there is space in the new house for having a place for the sorted trash then it is one of the most important things for me when planing the kitchen. In our old place we had space for the bio, glass, metal & mixed trash under the sink but all the rest was recycled in paper bags ( on the floor) and no matter how pretty the bags are ( I always saved nice ones from Dean & Deluca, Williams & Sonoma etc.) it was annoying me to no end. Cartons, cardboard, batteries, light bulbs, bottles, plastic, paper etc. Even if you take the trash out all the time it still needs to be put somewhere for a while. So I am super excited to have a “sorting station” in the new kitchen. Under the sink will go at least bio, plastic, metal & mixed trash and then I will have a whole double doored cupboard for the rest of the sorting. I´m very much looking forward to seeing how it will all work out in the end. But at least now ( I hope) there will not be paper bags on the kitchen floor.
I always seem to have cleared out the recycling bags from the pictures from the old apartment.
Feb
4
New floors & all that
by Sofia - in Interior design
How was your weekend? Mine was fun filled with a few too many classes of champagne and dancing. And amazing food here with friends. Sometimes it does a world of good to let loose a little, especially after having a tough month or week behind. So much fun. Now I´m resetting my body with healthy food choices. Also on the agenda stretching, physiotherapy exercises and a brisk long walk outside tonight to loosen up my shoulder a little. Over the weekend Cotton Candy joined me on my walk and we ended up getting my parents their favourite scones from St Georg´s bakery and brought them surprise breakfast on a Saturday morning when it was a very windy and snowy morning. They were very pleased and we got a nice little exercise out of it. Win-win.
On Sunday something exciting happened! Our floors were finally finished. So we headed out to the new apartment to check them out. As you know when the renovation starts with stripping the apartment to almost it´s bare bones it takes so long before you start to see any progress. At all. I mean it takes forever to do the plumbing, electricity, new walls, fix the floors, build new floors in other spaces etc. You literally see nothing happening for the longest time. So every new wall is very exciting. We did keep the old, original , fishbone parquet floors ( obviously) that were so amazingly made you quite literally don’t see any cracks on them at all. But we had them sanded and re-done. They are gorgeous! Also our kitchen finally got walls! Yay! I´m trying not to be over eager about the whole thing but it´s actually quite hard. My friend is getting a puppy and I think I´m as excited about the renovation as she is about the puppy which is nuts so I´m trying to tone it down a little. It´s not like we are building the Taj Mahal. It´s just an apartment. But I love picking and choosing fixtures and knobs and lamps. I found the perfect fabric for the Pantry´s roman blind. Then it was discontinued but I contacted them and they promised to make me 3 m more. Another reason to get hyper excited. About things other people really don´t care about. But I´m riding this wave now and your are sort of stuck with me on this surf.
Jan
24
Happy Weekend
by Sofia - in Interior design
Another week soaring by. I have been packing up the house with an inflamed shoulder ( luckily it is my left shoulder joint and as a right handed person I can still function fairly well) which basically means I can sort and fold and pack but not lift anything remotely heavy. It´s still going very well and next week we say good bye to our beloved home. My husband is not half as sentimental about things as I am or our daughters, especially Cotton Candy. I literally tear up when I even think of the days left in this apartment even though it has not been looking anything more than a storage unit for two weeks now. Anyhow it is weirdly hard for me. He is already very excited about the new place and has his eyes already there whereas I have mine sort of in the past.
You may have to read the blog post to the very end to get how the pictures are relevant.
But as I try to reassuringly tell my daughter all the memories will remain and you don´t really forget a house you lived in, ever. It is in your mind with you always. So instead of welling on these feelings I try to make her think of the new place and what great things we have waiting for us in our new dream home. The girls will be sharing their very own bathroom ( with two sinks which seems to be an important detail) and have their own rooms which is super exciting for them and they are also quite excited that daddy bought a huge tv & a sound system so they can host movie nights for friends ( you can then imagine how exhilarated I was about the tv but my husband promised we can keep a pretty photograph as a screensaver and it will look like a framed photo so I´m hoping that works). But the girls were most excited about moving very close to some of their very best friends!
