Lara's nursery

Finally, after several months of renovation, we can show you some bits and pieces of our new home. Obviously, we're starting with Lara's nursery because it's the prettiest room in the flat. We're very proud of it especially that we totally improvised. We knew we don't want pink and we knew we must be careful not to make this room look too boyish. And... not to brag but apart from both beds we had the pleasure of making, painting, printing and sewing everything else. We absolutely love how it turned out! A perfect little corner for our future explorer. 

thank you aunt Karo :*

and the before version was...

A big mess with some great perspectives

I was well aware that renovating your own place is a big deal. Everyone who has been through it all talks about the dust, the mess and how problematic it is. Indeed it is but I think the biggest problem is that during this transition period you don't really feel at home anymore.

We had to leave for a few days last week to say our goodbyes to Monika's grandpa (bless him and may he rest in peace). As you can imagine this was a time when we couldn't think much about what's going on at home. In the meantime most of the windows have been changed and some walls painted so we were welcomed by a much bigger mess than the one we had left behind. Everything has been moved around so we spent the first hour or two simply trying to figure things out. As you can see in the pictures the only place to eat breakfast at the moment is in our bed which is something we have to do more often :)

Oh and Ginger is completely lost and has no idea what's going on. It looks like she's trying to sabotage our work by nibbling on the tools. I love her!

Kamil

And here are some pictures from my Instagram feed. Just because.

A big mess with some great perspectives

I was well aware that renovating your own place is a big deal. Everyone who has been through it all talks about the dust, the mess and how problematic it is. Indeed it is but I think the biggest problem is that during this transition period you don’t really feel at home anymore.

We had to leave for a few days last week to say our goodbyes to Monika’s grandpa (bless him and may he rest in peace). As you can imagine this was a time when we couldn’t think much about what’s going on at home. In the meantime most of the windows have been changed and some walls painted so we were welcomed by a much bigger mess than the one we had left behind. Everything has been moved around so we spent the first hour or two simply trying to figure things out. As you can see in the pictures the only place to eat breakfast at the moment is in our bed which is something we have to do more often :)

Oh and Ginger is completely lost and has no idea what’s going on. It looks like she’s trying to sabotage our work by nibbling on the tools. I love her!

Kamil

And here are some pictures from my Instagram feed. Just because.

Time for changes

As many of you have noticed we've been absent here on the blog for some time now. After the last post you already know why but it's a bit more than just about waiting for the baby. For a few months we've been in this state where we keep talking about doing something new and exciting. Be it crafting, cooking, photography and lots others but we keep running into this same wall. Lack of motivation. Sure, maybe it's the fact that Monika is not feeling perfectly well at the moment and she doesn't have the same energy as she used to, so it's a bit harder to get about doing anything, but we feel it's also the fact that we need a change of scenery, a new place to give us more energy.
We were planning renovating our apartment for a long time now. We didn't get around doing it mostly because we simply couldn't afford it but also because we were constantly postponing it. Now that the baby is on the way we thought to ourselves that it's high time for us to prepare the nursery. Once we got to planning this one, special room our initial ideas got bigger and bigger and suddenly it turns out that we're not just renovating one room but the whole apartment (well, almost).
It will all take quite a lot of time as there is a lot to do! New windows, new floors, new walls and other, not so minor, things. We'll be keeping you up-to-date on how the work is developing.

Unfortunately, this also means that there won't be much cooking going on. There is dust everywhere and we don't want all our meals to be crunchy;) It's mostly take-away or ready-cooked meals but we promise that once all this is over we're coming back with lots of delicious posts.

Here are some "before" pictures of our apartment. As you can see I didn't manage to take pictures before all the work started so it's all a huge mess right now.

Kamil