Before I get to the photos, I have a bit of a cottage purchase status update for you. Our financing is all in place (the account has been activated), but it would appear things are a bit sticky on the "how do we actually transfer money from party A to party B". You see, the cheques for the account that were mailed to us on the 16th haven't arrived yet, and we close in about a week's time. If we transfer the funds into our personal account and write a cheque on that account, it will take time for that cheque to clear and it will take time for the funds transfer to appear in the account in the first place.
We could draw a bank draft on the Line of Credit, but that'll cost us $30 and that just bites, but I suppose if it comes to that we won't have much choice. Let's just hope those cheques arrive soon.
[Update, 2009-11-20: The cheques have arrived! Woot!]
OK. So back inside the cottage. I think I'll show you the kitchen today. It's another area that's high on my hit list of things to improve. Fortunately this will mostly involve a coat of paint and little more.The kitchen has not escaped the ravages of hodgepodginess, the culprit here being the wall coverings. We've got some sort of plastic paneling "tiles" on the backsplash, "wood"paneling on the walls, actual wood panels over the fridge, and I'm not really sure what's going on over top of the cabinets.
Oh, the cabinets.Let's have a look:
As you can clearly see in photo exhibit B, the cupboard doors have a translucent orange plastic insert.
Here they are up close:
Oooo. Orangey. Very, retro. Very, seventies. Very, DISCO! How I loved Andy Gibb. I even had a "Shadow Dancing" nightgown *sigh*. But I digress.
I think my Grandma had something like this in the front door window when I was little. Yick. So the current plan with the narsty cabinets is a coat of paint. If the doors come apart easily, we're talking about removing the plastic and inserting some hard board or perhaps some bead-board panelling pieces that can then all be painted. If they don't come apart easily, I'll be knocking out the plastic with a hammer and putting fabric panels on the inside to hide the view of the dishes.I'll need to so something with the drawer faces too. They're deliberately angled like that. The drawers are pretty (extremely) low on the "things to fix" scale, though.
I also plan to replace the peeling peel-n-stick tiles when we do the floor to the whole place. Peel-n-stick tiles work great in some situations and they're very easy to install, but if the floor isn't 100% dust free when you install them the adhesive doesn't stick well and the corners start to lift. Once that happens, dirt starts to accummulate under the tiles and before you know it you've got to replace your floor.So what else is there. Oh ya, the little faucet on the sink is for a reverse osmosis water filtration system, which doesn't exist. It would appear someone removed it at some point. There nothing under the sink but a wee pipe to nowhere; it's cut off down below. Eventually we might investigate adding one but we'll use the water cooler in the meantime.
The last thing you need to see is the Fridge. *shudder*. It's right up there on the creepy scale with the sauna in Peaky. Ugh. So gross. I particularly love the 2x6 crisper box. Ingenius! The fridge is high on the list of things to replace. Even a used fridge off kijiji will be a step up from this beast. The biggest problem with removing things like fridges is what you do with them. It's not like you can put it in the boat and cart it off. I think we'll be stockpiling cast-off junk in one of the bunkies in the short term. When we're ready to cart over some big items from the mainland (new fridge, couch, etc) we'll rent a barge on the lake. We can then transport the big new stuff to the cottage, and then load it up to haul away the crap on the return trip. So if you're a strapping young man and you're reading this: duly warned! You'll be roped into hefting heavy things on and off the barge and possibly to the dump. (thanks in advance!)
No comments:
Post a Comment