The last two weeks have been a couple of weeks full of ups and downs for Wouter and me. We thought we were seeing the end of the tunnel with the house, we thought we had the budget all under control and that we even had some money left-over to allow us to get the floor-type that we had wanted since the beginning. That fairy tale came crashing to screeching halt when our contractor dropped us a lovely little note asking an extra EUR 22.000 for so-called unforeseen things.

Wouter and I immediately threw a hissy fit and brought the contractor and the architect together to talk about this budget gone out of control. Luckily that 22.000 EUR is now no-longer there, but we’re still looking at where we can cut in the budget and trying to figure out a floor-type we can afford, and all of the rest. Anyway, basically we’re not doing as financially well as we thought we were and it’s a big huge shame. Our architect’s also going AWOL again – and that pisses me off quite tremendously.

Furthering the news of a shaky week, one of my colleagues, Laura, has tendered her resignation so we’re going to be recruiting in the office for a new office manager. I swear I’ve only been in the office a little over a year and I’m already the senior policy officer – heck the senior anything in the office! A little scary if I might say so, as my boss is soon going to go on maternity leave as she’s expecting a kid!

I just hope we’re going to be okay…

Thought I’d show you what’s sitting in the camera I keep stealing from the workplace. Whatta ya guys think?

  Well, it was high time I built up a news category which was specifically about our loft project. So welcome to the new loft project category with all the latest news about our attemps to renovate a triplex into a habitable living space otherwise known as home.

We had a meeting earlier today with our architect with the big objective to pick out colours. In the midst of our contractors hard at work starting to place the sliding doors on the ground floor. It's really starting to come along I have to say.

Also, the tiles for the bathroom have been delivered - though there's a whole box of them which were shattered en route. Uuurgh! Also, the bath itself was delivered.

The bad news in all of this is that our contractors no longer think the house will be ready in time for us to move in - it looks like we're going to have to move into a construction site - not at all what we had planned!

But anyway, that wasn't really why I wrote here - I thought I would show you guys the colours we're likely to pick! Our architect is suggesting we use Trimetal's Colours of the Times collection.

On the ground floor we're going to have three colours:

The main colour will be what is known as "Guillaume Tell", whilst the accent walls will have either the colour known as "Mastic" or "Pilat."



Inside our ground-floor restroom, the walls will be painted in a "Havana" colour which we hope will contrast very nicely with the white finish to our sliding doors, the white porcelain of the toilet, and the furniture that'll hold the sink.



On the top floor we're going to be going with a similar colour palette and similar split between a main colour and an accent colour:

We're debating between either using Blanc Tourterelle or Guillaume Tell



For the accent wall we're debating between "Campagnol," or "Taupe," the accent wall being where the bed will be located and the bloc containing the shower.



For a bit I thought the colours weren't at all what we had in mind at first, but actually I think I like these quite a bit! What do you guys think?