Mrs. Dave and I got a tour of what will eventually be our new digs next year. Our apartment-to-be is starting to take shape, with the old kitchen turning into a shared office for both of us, the beginnings of a bar/counter in our kitchen, and the bedroom/closets completely walled off. Basically, all of the new walls are up, the old walls are down, and it's almost ghastly to think of them cutting through those beautiful floors in the back corner to put in the new egress. The drop ceilings are gone, there's new sprinkler tubing running through the rafters, and you can even see the remnants of the old knob-and-tube wiring in the old wall boards. And where they've pulled some temporary walls away from the original walls, the original dark-stained woodwork shows through. It's gorgeous...but we'll probably never see it.
Upstairs, on the second floor, it's really a shame that they went to the trouble of redoing our apartment a couple of years ago, because all the new shiny hardwood floors and the repainted walls are going to be covered up, with carpeting and boring white paint, respectively. Our old living room is two bedrooms and a common room, our old bedroom is a double, and the back office is now a stair well.
On the top floor, they knocked out the wall right inside the door, and it's now a hallway in front - SO much more open and inviting! Six rooms, including one double, on that floor, a double bathroom...a completely new layout.
The best news of all was to hear from the project manager that everything is still on schedule. Well, except for the fact that they don't really *have* a schedule, just a projected duration without a firm end date. And oh yeah, they might eventually be expanding the building AGAIN. Dibs on the new wing...
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