Saturday, April 5, 2008

someone else's condo unit

Last weekend we toured the condo again. There was no appreciable progress on our unit, but the ones on the first and second floors are coming along nicely: drywalled, mudded, light switches and fixtures, some with underlay on the floor, some glass bricks and glass walls done, doors in.

The photos are from the unit on the first floor with the same floor plan as us.

When we went in January, these units looked kind of 'meh', and now they look pretty good. I'm using that improvement to calculate that our unit will go from looking pretty good to hot awesome. When it's finished (in 2012?), we'll see how that works out... ;-) (We haven't got an updated move-in date, but I am clinging to the hope that they'll get it wrapped up by the end of July!)


As far as fixtures go, I don't mind the round ceiling lights (they're practically invisible), but the others... The track lighting reminds me of the track lighting in our Holt Street house that was impossible to change the lightbulbs, so whenever the bulbs burnt out, my dad had to get a new fixture that would hopefully be better and work longer! And the 'chandelier' will be swapped out: Bo, you're coming to Halifax.

4 comments:

Bloggy Mama said...

lookin' good. I can't wait for you to be in there, I hope that they are finished soon.

Jan Petrar: The Travelist said...

So..... do you get to choose your paint colours?

Unknown said...

Someone has graffiti'd your comments .. but mine is important.

It is important to say that I didn't swap out the fixture EVERY time the light bulb failed (sometimes we lived in the dark for a while), or intentionally buy such defective fixtures. Because cheap fixtures are always a real pain to hang - working over your head, with wires too short, screws stripping, and arcane mounting systems.

mackenzie said...

Hey - someone spammed us! I'll see if i can get that comment removed....