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Home Renovations Part 2: Laundry

White hand-drawn doodles of a renovated laundry, including a washing machine, dryer, cabinets, folded towels and cleaning supplies, on a navy blue background. The text reads “Home Renovations Part 2: Laundry”.

Last year we did some pretty extensive renovations to our house. The laundry, main bathroom, and ensuite bathroom were completely overhauled, and we got new bookshelves (which I’ve already posted about here).

All that was left was to paint.

A huge shout-out to my father-in-law here, who came and repainted the walls while we were away.

We can finally say we’re done! It only took 1.5 years, whoops haha. Almost as long as it’s taken me to write this post. Thanks NaBloPoMo for helping me get through my backlog of things I wanted to write about!

Before the renovation

Here’s the before of the laundry.

Laundry before renovation, with open linen shelves and a freestanding sink cabinet.

Or, if we look at it in its full glory, here’s a photo I found from one post-camping weekend.…

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5 things for Friday (vol. 13)

Featured image of doodles for the week

It’s been a really uneventful week, and I felt like I was scraping the bottom of the barrel to come up with something to write.

So I decided that this week I would share what I’ve been listening, watching, reading, and thinking about.

Listening

Working from home, I always have to have noise in the background. Enter Spotify.

(Side topic: I wish you could claim Spotify as a necessary WFH expense. But myyyy wouldn’t that piss off all the folks who hate the idea of working from home in the first place?)

Although I have a gigantic starred playlist, my mood varies a lot. Most of the time I start a radio based on a single song. Or a mate at work recommends something, I play it, get focused on work, and Spotify just keeps doing its thing after.…

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