Kitchen a bit further

The kitchen is now painted.



We took the measurements from the side that has the sink and electrical inputs to a kitchen customization place, and ordered this.



It will be installed on the 23 of this month, till then I still have to get my water from the bathroom sink. *cry

Also, here is what our (big) balcony looks like:

From inside the flat looking out:



From the open door looking out:



From the corner looking around to the main portion:



All the way at the far edge looking out over the private back yard (we can use it too):

The rest of the Before photos

The Kitchen:
Tiles on the floor stay
Tiles on the wall go
Wallpaper is already removed
Adhesive is being washed off now
Primer comes next
Colored Paint next (ceiling and left wall will be cream, all the rest coffee)
New ceiling lamp needs to be purchased and installed
New entire kitchen comes on April 23 (all appliances and cabinets) Luckily this will be professionally installed




The living room:





Bianca helping by squatting on torn off wallpaper:



Agust, despite doing very little work, stops to pose with MY mask on as if he was working in the dust filled room.



The Hallway, which sadly still looks just like this. It has the most work still to do.

Tons to do!

Agust and I moved to Germany, and we found an awesome flat, but boy it needs a lot of work. This is the bedroom on the 2nd or 3rd day. We had already started removing the hideous wallpaper.



Things that needed doing:
Remove all wallpaper
Scrape up stuck on carpet padding from old carpet
Sponge walls with soapy water and scrape off excess adhesive and paper
Repair walls with spackle
Sand walls smooth
Paint with primer
Mask off the edges of the coffee walls with masking tape
Paint cream walls and ceiling
Install ceiling light
Reverse masking tape so that cream walls and ceiling are now masked off
Paint coffee walls
Install new light switches and sockets
Lay plastic vapor layer over the floor
Lay sound proofing foam over the floor
Lay the laminate (way more complicated than it sounds, lots of cutting and sanding and hammering)
Install the trim (definitely the hardest part so far, my fingers are raw from the little metal clips)

Now, 3 weeks later, here is the same room:



We're going with a coffee and cream theme. Every room will have a cream colored ceiling, and one or two cream walls, then the rest the chocolate coffee brown. The flooring is just Ikea laminate, but we're on a budget and it looks nice for now. The trim is a cream Ahorn color, and all the light switches are a matching coffee brown. We intend to use all large diffuse light sources like this in the house, no bare bulbs allowed.