our week in pictures.

Almost forgot about updating this week. I have been too busy being either in nostalgia mood or just kind of grieving, because the kid is starting school next week. I have been processing it a lot, I know it is going to be the hardest for me mostly. The kid will probably have a hard time but probably not so much too but you know, we’ve been together every single day since he was born(well minus the days when he was in the hospital but I did still visit him every single day so that still counts right :)) And now he is venturing out into the world where I am not by his side for some hours of the day. I’ll miss our morning walks together, just having him around for the day. So yes, grieving.

Other than that I have been thinking a lot about my plants.

1. Repotted the monstera to a bigger pot. Hopefully it will be happy in this bigger home.

2. These plants were apparently getting too much sun from the east facing window so currently I have them there still but with the curtains drawn. And they seem to be doing much better now. The peace lily flowers finally bloomed.

3. flowers for the week.

4. tiny mushrooms

5. listening to music on our muji cd player.

changes part one(maybe)

This week I feel like we didn't do much. we started ramadan, so we’ve been doing that. trying to navigate going through our first ramadan in this house, while also trying to break fast with my mom. oh but I did say I will try to write about our house more because that’s mostly what I have been thinking about lately, among other things.

I wrote about the kitchen renovation recently. so back to our living room, the changes that we made were just to make everything new or more like renew them. I’ll start with the entrance.

I’ve said it a few times or a lot of times that I really like that this house has an entrance. We mostly changed everything here. Replastered the wall, it was a weird rough texture. maybe in hindsight we could have chosen a different flooring for the entrance since then it will be a bit more obvious it is the entrance but I like the same flooring and it makes everything so much easier to clean. one thing I wish we did keep(but not possible since they are in a really bad condition are the partition and the wall/door trim. We did ask to keep the front door trims because those were still ok. The ceiling had a ceiling light with those glass stains going on so we took that out. We covered up those “ice cubes“ by the entrance.

We maintained the design of the French doors and painted them green. I am also excited at the prospect of painting it a different colour when the time comes. We added hooks and a tall mirror and a bench for putting on shoes. I am hoping to add maybe a wall shelf or even a small cabinet by the storage door to replace the wall hanging there. I think it will be more organised to have a cabinet and also kind of like a separator, just like how it is like before.

From the entrance, we have the living area. It’s not so bad but a lot of things were falling apart and we have to do rewiring. We changed the floor. Took out the ceiling lights. Changed the windows to a clear one so we can get more light in. The living area isn’t that big and it is where we gather, eat and also work so we needed to make that work for us. But we saw how cosy it could be even when it was still not renovated yet.

Like I’ve mentioned before, we did have an interior designer helping us with some parts of the renovation. They helped when we were choosing tiles for the living area, bathroom areas. They helped with our IKEA kitchen but mostly we just tell them what we have in mind and they helped us render it. And arranged the installation. We mostly worked directly with the contractors. It took a while but we got there.

The Pinterest board for the house. Lots of green and pink :)

The main thing that was the main focus was for the storage for our books and games and also to make the house as kid friendly as possible. Other than that I was inspired by all the colourful painted doors and windows. I was definitely really into green doors and kitchens and just decided that I wanted a pink sofa. I am still thinking of colours for the walls. Was thinking it would be nice to paint the washrooms another colour. Speaking of washrooms, that’s another renovation that was quite major. I’ll try to write about it soon.

till next time, m

our week in pictures

1. found Mario

2. trying out something I saw to preserve berries better in the fridge

3. went to a mending class.

4. flowers going strong for weeks now.

5. got some baby spider plants.

6. candy coloured sky

7. The moon and Venus?

8.mended the kid’s pants. it looks not that good but hope it will be ok. haha

a few days ago we started ramadan. April will be here soon and E will start school soon. I am feeling rather anxious about it. Both the anticipation and wanting it to be here and also not wanting to go through it all just yet makes it all hard. I keep telling myself this is something we have to do no matter what. There’s no avoiding it. So yes anxious about that, and so I try to keep myself busy by just thinking about what plants I should get next :)

till next time, m