Week eight - the white goods have landed

How exciting.  How exciting.  Exciting!  

This week is the beginning of the interior.  Things are starting to go into our used-to-be-horrible completely white box.

Exciting!

First, we now have some (white) shelves in our (white) cupboards in the (white) bedrooms!

Now, these shelves might not look terrifically interesting to you, but their configuration was the subject of several arguments between me and Rob, so you'd better appreciate them.

The other half of the cupboards will have hanging rails:

They were less controversial, so you are free to think what you like about them.

Continuing with the excitement upstairs, we now have a bath and toilet!  

Now then, an important lesson folks.

I have learnt on this epic Grand Designs style journey, that several things in houses that you thought you knew the name of, you actually don't.  Or rather, if you use the names that you thought were the normal ones to use, you will be instantly exposed as a Kevin McCloud stalking fake, a DIY disaster zone, an interior design faker.

We don't have a bath and toilet, we have sanitaryware.

And, more excitingly for the poor builders than us, the toilet sanitaryware is fully functional.

(Don't think too hard about what they have been doing for the past eight weeks.  I'm trying not to).

Moving downstairs, and surpassing the sanitaryware in excitement levels from me, is the arrival of the kitchen units:

Don't worry, those ones above that look like the square white cousins of the daleks, convening an evil world-takeover plotting meeting, are actually upside down.   

Here are their brothers, confusingly stationed in the sitting room (presumably not permanently, although the builders might be forgiven for some confusion as the kitchen was delivered without a plan for putting it together, making the construction rather like the Ikea version of the Krypton Factor).

And here's the fridge, freezer, and washing machine.  In the library.  With the candlestick.

I have a feeling that the lack of a design plan and the delivery of several incorrect units is only the beginning of a long kitchen-installation saga, because we've also discovered that, just to make things even more tricky, one of the walls is wonky.  Of course.

Demonstrated here by the whacking great gap at the back of this cabinet.

Brilliant.

No builder's tea break news this week, so instead I will share with you my discovery of this:  

Nope, I haven't a clue either.