Chaos continues to reign
July 15th 2009 04:02
We're in the middle of renovations: redoing the kitchen, and expanding it into the next room. (As it was for quite a number of years while the kids were growing up - we then put a wall back between the two rooms).
At the moment both of us are home from work, one with the flu and me with a cold. And in the middle of all that feeling unwell, I discovered the hot water tank was leaking slowly - which means a new hot water tank. Just to add to the cost of everything that's being done. Pooh.
However, today, our new dual hot and cold tap arrived. We'd ordered it online from a discount tap company (or discount faucets company, as the Great World Leader of a Country would say). I'd never thought of ordering taps online, but my wife did some investigating and found this company that was selling them at prices lower than retail, and so we ordered one. It was still a very expensive tap, by my lights: NZ$305, but at least there was no postage on top of that.
Working in a kitchen while it's being renovated is a major exercise in living with chaos. Things that would normally be in position A have either vanished or translated themselves to position D. (Position B would have been better.) Things that lived alongside what is now Position A have moved to various parts of the room: the pantry, the wrong cupboard entirely, the window shelf. And the fridge moves on a daily basis from the corner to the area beside the door and back again. The scaffolding sits over stuff that you'd like to get at but can't. Even the electric range becomes a renovation worktop at times.
I dislike chaos intensely, but it seems I'm being trained to be patient with it.
At the moment both of us are home from work, one with the flu and me with a cold. And in the middle of all that feeling unwell, I discovered the hot water tank was leaking slowly - which means a new hot water tank. Just to add to the cost of everything that's being done. Pooh.
This is our new tap: the Methven Futura Sink Mixer
Working in a kitchen while it's being renovated is a major exercise in living with chaos. Things that would normally be in position A have either vanished or translated themselves to position D. (Position B would have been better.) Things that lived alongside what is now Position A have moved to various parts of the room: the pantry, the wrong cupboard entirely, the window shelf. And the fridge moves on a daily basis from the corner to the area beside the door and back again. The scaffolding sits over stuff that you'd like to get at but can't. Even the electric range becomes a renovation worktop at times.
I dislike chaos intensely, but it seems I'm being trained to be patient with it.
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