My Overwhelming List of Things To Do
Hello to my dear Haus Maus readers. I hope that you are doing good! Today is Saturday and though it's a dreary day, I'm heading out soon to the farmers' market to meet my friends and then go do some shopping for the baby and to take some photos of our new apartment - so I can share them with all of you! But first, how are you? I hope you are doing well.
I will be 30 weeks pregnant on Monday... Already! I cannot believe it. And we're in the process of moving upstairs two floors so we'll have a sunny apartment with an extra bedroom for the little one. I can't wait! The new hardwood floors in the bedrooms and back hallway are being installed currently and then, all of the walls in the apartment and ceilings, oh and doors, will be painted. It's going to be a very busy time. We hope to have all of the renovations finished by the end of November. Then, in December, we will install two new toilets, a vanity above the bathroom sink, our new kitchen and our 16 pendant lights - slowly, but surely. Once all of the lighting and cabinetry is in place, we can start moving up our personal belongings - though I won't be able to lift or do that much so I'm going to be more in charge in packing/unpacking and decorating.
I also have to start working on the window treatments since we'll need to cover the windows for privacy (in our bedroom, guest bedroom, baby's room and the front two rooms). The rest of the rooms can wait - we currently have only curtains in our bedroom and have lived without window coverings for the past 3 years just fine - but we know the bedrooms will soon need them with a baby coming and my mother traveling over to stay with us for a few months. The windows are all very odd-sized and we have high ceilings, so I most likely have to make curtains myself or have them made - and I'm guessing I'll have them made at this point because I want roman blinds in a few of the rooms and do not have the patience to bother making them - too complicated!
I've put together an Excel spreadsheet - I do have a background as a project manager - so the spreadsheet is keeping me on target. But oh my goodness, there is SO MUCH TO DO.
Does anyone happen to know of a good place in Hannover to have window treatments made (curtains, roman blinds, etc.?)
I wish each of you a beautiful weekend!
xo
Holly
(Photography: Alesia Kazantceva)
Comments
It is great to have a flat with more light...it what I miss. About the window covers...cannot help much...I had them made by mum ;)
have you tried Goslar Inneneinrichtung am Aegi? It is expensive, though.
Many Greetings, Cora
http://www.goslar-innenausstattungen.de
Just wanted to say that I'm from the states and have lived in Germany for quite sometime. I suggest you file for your kindergeld ( free money from the gov. for the first year of the baby's life)...its paperwork but its money, right! Also, start registering for day care, pre school and kindergarten....these slots fill up fast and you WILL BE out of luck...social democracy works great, but you have to get in line and file your paperwork! Go secondhand/flöhmarkt with all the baby stuff.. you will find great things for pennies! Pick a poo ( funny name) has the softest warmest organic wool clothing for children I have EVER touched...PRICEY...but so worth it! Google it! Popolino were the cloth diapers I used...went thru about 7 diapers a day so buy 14 so your not living by the washer. Keep your child as warm as possible during the winter months you don't want pneumonia...it happens too easily here. The hospitals get flooded with sick kids. Congrats and wish you a wonderful new chapter! Window treatments I would sew them myself....your saving hundreds..thousands! xo
I ve been reading your blog maybe 5 years already and this is my first comment :).
I wish you all the best with your pregnancy and later with your baby. Enjoy every second of it.
You have nice plans, hope you will acomplish them and that you will be more succesful than I was :)
I am now mother of 3 months old and I was also optimistic about furnishing our new apartment and so. But last month of pregnancy was very lazy - there was no other choice :) and since my daughter is here, nothing much can be really done. So some rooms are still waiting for window treatments as well as some boxes are still waiting for unpacking.
And...just take all thatstep by step. If everything is not finished or perfect until the baby come, the baby wont't notice :-).
So good to have your mom coming to help, how long will she stay?
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Best wishes for you, your husband and the baby
Pfadine
The picture above looks beautiful!!
I love the colors a lot! I just got a chest of drawers from Kolonialmoebel which I would love to put in a nice place like on your picture!
also all the best for your pregnangcy!
Marion
Best for you Buddy!
Iris
I don´t know if you are still looking for blinds ect., but here are two more possibilities for you:
dörre Raum -Design
Tiergartenstraße 69
30559 Hannover
Tel.: +49 (511) 520391
FAX: +49 (511) 514899
expensive, but good. no webpage, tough luck!
And there´s always jaloucity....
Good luck,
Martin