We Hire a Painter

I mentioned in a previous post that Davide and I were painting our fence but after 2 days for only about 30 -40 minutes a day we had back-pain. And we only made a very little progress...so we decided to hire someone to paint the fence. Yes, we want to save money but we don't want to get ill either so better get someone do the work. He can do the job faster and better than Davide and I. Painting is just not for us. :)

Painting the Fence

I'm so tired today. I started painting our fence. We were supposed to hire a man to paint but I told Davide that it's better that I'll do it or we'll do it so that we can save the money to pay the painter. Anyway, it's not a heavy job and we can do it by ourselves. I'm glad that he agreed with me...but we have to paint when there is not much sun in our side anymore because it's so hot outside and the paint will dry so quickly and it will just crack. And yeah, we had a good start today and we'll continue tommorrow. I just hope Leonardo will not bother us...because he wants to paints too but he will just make a mess and it will slow down our job. :))

My Little Helper

When Leo will see me vacuuming the floor he always wants to get it from me and do it himself. And then says that he wants to help Mamma. Although he don't really know how to use the vacuum yet and instead of helping me clean he makes more mess :)) But it's just so sweet of him to try to help me clean the house.

In the new house

Finally we are now in our new house since Saturday. Although not all the furnitures arrive yet but it's nice already and we like it so much. Specially Leonardo who can now go back and forth from our house to his Nonni's house anytime he wants. We are now near from the City and everthing is so accessible now. Later on today, Davide and I will go to the mall to buy some new stuffs for the house and I'm really excited decorating the house. I love how it turns out.

But you know what, the night before we transferred something awful happened. A big emergency but I'll tell about it next time because I'm not yet ready for now. So, just wish us luck now that everything will be fine and will go smoothly.

The House with the Lake View

The real state agency is now putting this house, that we are in until end of this May, as For Rent. :( And today a German couple came with the agent to take a look of the house and I think they like it. They like it so much because of the view of the lake and of the garden. And they also like it because of the quite neighborhood. It's a private area so nobody could come in except for the homeowners. They asked us how much we were paying for the electricity, water and gas every month and we told them that more or less we paid €350 a month and they think that it's ok. I think they will negotiate now about the house rental which we paid €1,200 a month. Hhhmmm, I don't know if they could get this house lesser than that because we also tried to asked the owner before if they will lower the rental to €1,000 a month but he only told us that if we don't want to pay that price then we could go and find another one...Mean huh. We like it so much and we don't want to live in an appartment so we ended up paying that price. And now, in just less than a couple of weeks we will live and I'm really sad to think about it. This place have an amazing view and so quite and peaceful and I'm really going to miss the House with the Lake View. But on the other hand, starting next month we wont pay any rental anymore and that's a lot of savings for us. We will have our own house back, which is amazing, and we are already excited to live there. ;)

Packing-up things

In one of my previous entry I said that we will transfer in our new house on the first week of July but the contractor said that they will finish it this week and that the house will be ready next week. So, we decided that we will transfer at the end of this month so that we wont have to pay another month of house rental. Everything is ready in the house except for the living room though, but it's ok I think, we will just use the old sofa that we had while we'll wait for the new one to arrive. And we only have 10 days before we will transfer that's why we are now starting to pack our things so that everything will be ready by then. Although we don't have that much thing to be brought to the new house since this house that we are renting is fully furnished and we didn't bring any of our furnitures here. So, practically we only have our personal things to pack :))

So, that's the latest about us and I will go to sleep now. It's getting late here and we have to wake-up early tomorrow since right after we'll drop Leo to school we will go order the new sofa and then order the curtains and buy some accessories for the house. That's all...Goodnight Everyone :)

House Renovation

As I had mentioned in a previous entry "Lake View" that we are doing a major house renovation on our previous house. This is a two story building and before we only lived upstairs because downstairs was an old store of Davide's father. Upstairs was 70 sqm, with 2 bedrooms, a T&B, a small kitchen and a small living room. And we thought that was very small for us. So, since the store downstairs was long gone we decided to have it combined together and have a house that we think will be big enough for us. Now it has 170 sqm.. So, here are some the photos of the labor in progress that i thought to share with you.

This is the house outside with it's big garden. The stairs going up before was located in this side.

This is the front view now...the gate and the fence are still in progress.

This is now the new stairs going up.

Going-Up

The new flooring on the upper floor (parquet)

This will be the new kitchen -- it's now in the ground floor :))

The new CR groundfloor

The T&B at the upperfloor

The T&B of masters bedroom-this was previously where the kitchen was located. So, could you imagine how small our kitchen was?:))

All in all we have 3 CR's now :)

This is now the master's bedroom, previously the living room.

And this is our previous room and now will be Leo's room.

We are going to transfer in this house in less than a couple of months and there are still a lot of works to be done. I just hope it will be finished then.