Moving House

Hey
Its been about six months since i last wrote something on this blog.The past six months have been kinda crazy for me, with a new job and learning to cope with all the cooking and housework in between. Im just amazed now at all the working women/ men who cope with kids too, and still manage to do all the extra stuff in between....
Besides the job we were also trying to renovate a flat that belongs to Prashanths dad. That was an even more exhausting task. Just trying to communicate with all the workmen was enough to drive us crazy. and we wanted all the best stuff, on a pretty limited budget. we spent countless days running around in parry's corner and vadapalani, looking at tiles and bathroom fittings and taps and what not. The whole project has been a great learning experience for both of us and it seems quite enjoyable now, looking back :))
Prashanth had to suddently leave to Sharjah, before the house was complete, so amma was here for a month to help me set up. She was definitely a god send. I could go happily off to worka nd leave her to fend with the carpenter and the plumber and the mason who all refused to listen to her. I couldnt have managed without her :))
And now that mos tof our money has goen into the house, we dint really have much left over for furniture, so we mostly live at floor level.

Pics below


The painted hall, the focal point of this house that everyone likes:) Somehow by chance, the whole house has turned out to be in varying shades of pink, something we definitely did not intend, but seems quite good now :)



One of our few furniture buys, and the best in my opinion - the table housing our TV, DVD player and assorted electronics. It was one of those instant buys, we bought as soon as we saw. But as amm keeps telling me, i only bought it, didnt design it, so i shouldnt keep boasting about it so much :)



This is the huge dining room, dosent show so much in the pic though. The tiny dining table turned out to be accidentaly good. We bought in among the chaos and madness of saravana stores, in a much lighter colour. But it turned out to be this dark "mahogany" which we like better now so decided to keep.






My favourite place - my kitchen. ITs bright yellow with light wood cabinets. Of course i feels its a little too much for me, for the amount of cookign that i do :D but i relaly enjoy it :DD