NAFASI THE BLOG

After a quick demolition of the interior walls, we were feeling good about our design plan. The space felt big and open finally. The next steps were ceiling and floors.  We decided to keep the ceiling that was in the original main room, and extend it back through the kitchen.  It's not the best quality, and the ceiling is a little wavy. But it is better for sure.  Then the next move they wanted to do was choose floor tiles! (While this is very fun and exciting for me, I do wish that flooring would happen in the end like in the US so that the tiles don't get scratched and chipped and painted on throughout the renovation. I am still being reassured that in the end, it will all be fixed. We'll see...) In a sea of bad tile repeated one store at a time, the challenge was  that  much more exciting to find the diamond in the rough... And there she is. The BEST tile ever. Faux wood ceramic tile. Love. Wait 'til you see them laid on the floor...

Wow! I need to blog so hard right now. We have been NONstop working on the house for the past 3 weeks, ripping apart everything, and fixing it all back up. We are not completely finished with the renovations yet, but I'll catch you all up here step by step. I'm finally back at home in Rubengera, taking the weekend off of project management, and guess what all I want to do is!? Write and think and talk about our project. 😍 This home renovation is a huge overhaul, and a ton of work. It started off so fast though! Let me show you how in just the first 2 and a half days, knocking down all our walls changed our entire floorplan and opened up the space in both our Main House and the Backyard House. They started on the Backyard House, so I'll walk you through that first. This was it when we first saw it: It is VERY modest, and is meant to be the rooms for guards/cleaners/staff in general to sleep in and use. The landlords call it the 'Boys' Quarters.' This...