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No pictures this time though. I’m sitting on the bus from Knarvik to Bergen writing this because this is the only slot of time where I’ve had time to do anything like this for almost a week.
I’ve had multiple deliveries of documentation at work, and that can really stretch your creative muscles for a while. On the moving part; we have now finally moved, we have slept in the new apartment for two nights even though the bed hasn’t been assembled yet.

We did most of the moving last Saturday. Big thanks to all the people that helped with the move. Some stuff where left over for sunday though. Sunday was the day for assembling the kitchen before the plumber got here monday morning. We just got barely enough of the kitchen furniture assembled before midnight sunday.
The plumber(s) oddly enough (being contractors and all) was ready at 07:29 Monday morning, one minute before they was supposed to And for those who want to know who these eager plumbers where, they where from Gården Rørleggerservice. The same plumber-company that mounted the dishwasher in the old apartment. That also right on time

The electrician we hired was also right on time, and though he did a mistake while assembling the sockets in the kitchen, he also fixed the problem right away.

To sum things up. The kitchen almost looks like a kitchen, and we’re able to prepare food there. Theres still a lot to do. We got hot water in the shower (the heater had broke when we stopped the water a few weeks ago). The livingroom is still full of boxes, though somewhat fewer than on saturday. We sleep on a matress on the livingroom floor. And its 8 days to christmas eve. To top things up, the company I’m working for are moving thursday evening.

So, no updates this Sunday either. Thats not because it hasn’t been an eventfull weekend, more on that later. Maybe its good to have one blog-free day each week?

Here’s a new update on the progress of our not-exactly-60-minute-makeover. Do you notice any difference on the pictures from the Kitchen in the last two picture updates and this one?

• Picture update 1
• Picture update 2

as requested…

Pine green paint

Dag is removing the old floor

Cecilie unmounting the old kitchen

Kitchen floor

Eira painting the livingroom walls.

not really… but sometimes the weekend, when you look at it in retrospect, seems like a whole week, because you’ve got so much stuff done.

One of these things was not blogging, since I had so much stuff to do. On friday I got the second stroke of paint on the livingroom and bedroom roof, before Posten came and delivered the new kitchen. Watching the Posten guys backing up a truck up to our door was quite an experience in itself. Then we got the rest of the kitchen furniture down.

Then, on saturday morning, which by the way was an extraordinary morning, with weather we rarely see in this city.

Cold, with crisp snow and partial sunlight.

On saturday we had whats in norwegian is called “dugnad” (which by a funny sidenote is translated “hard work” by google translate), where friends of ours came over and helped us with painting, and removing the several layers of floor in the kitchen.

We got more done on saturday than we had expected, we got a single layer of paint in the hall, and prepared for the pinegreen paint we painted on the lower half of the hall walls on sunday.

On sunday my mother visited and lended us her car for the next few weeks. That will make the moving process a lot easier.

Or, actually just the kitchen. Yesterday we removed almost all of the existing kitchen furniture in our new apartment, preparing for the IKEA delivery of a new kitchen today

So, here’s how the kitchen looks right now:

We also got the first stroke of paint on the livingroom and the bedroom roof. It’s nice to see progress