Dear future homeowners,
Eventually, after a longer or shorter planning phase, comes the waiting period.
The time between submitting the building permit / planning permission application and receiving approval—the waiting for the go-ahead.
What do you do in the meantime? Check the kitchen, review appliance tests, feel resigned, visit the plot, count shoes, measure clothes hangers, mentally saw up furniture, search online for new furniture, take measurements, plan niches in non-load-bearing walls, buy a garden planner, dig out a Feng Shui book, visit the plot again, call the bank, move the bed back, relocate a door, measure again, doubt the floor plan, measure the design for the umpteenth time, take B vitamins, visit the plot once more, look up sports clubs in the new town, choose tiles, plan sliding doors, go on a shopping spree, order some lamps in advance, check what Ikea offers, doubt the floor plan again, plan niches, call disability insurance, browse forums, doubt the entire house, think “if only we had,” take a mental break, watch Semmelings, pull your hair out, visit the plot again, measure again, annoy forums, ask “what if?”... What do you do during this grey zone?
Best regards,
yvonne
Eventually, after a longer or shorter planning phase, comes the waiting period.
The time between submitting the building permit / planning permission application and receiving approval—the waiting for the go-ahead.
What do you do in the meantime? Check the kitchen, review appliance tests, feel resigned, visit the plot, count shoes, measure clothes hangers, mentally saw up furniture, search online for new furniture, take measurements, plan niches in non-load-bearing walls, buy a garden planner, dig out a Feng Shui book, visit the plot again, call the bank, move the bed back, relocate a door, measure again, doubt the floor plan, measure the design for the umpteenth time, take B vitamins, visit the plot once more, look up sports clubs in the new town, choose tiles, plan sliding doors, go on a shopping spree, order some lamps in advance, check what Ikea offers, doubt the floor plan again, plan niches, call disability insurance, browse forums, doubt the entire house, think “if only we had,” take a mental break, watch Semmelings, pull your hair out, visit the plot again, measure again, annoy forums, ask “what if?”... What do you do during this grey zone?
Best regards,
yvonne
@DerDa
Why is doing the work yourself a problem?
We are expecting our baby within the next 10 days. We have been living in our own home for three weeks now, and we have done (or will do) the entire interior finishing ourselves. I have helped with wallpapering and painting, which is no problem at all because pregnancy is not an illness… ;-)
Why is doing the work yourself a problem?
We are expecting our baby within the next 10 days. We have been living in our own home for three weeks now, and we have done (or will do) the entire interior finishing ourselves. I have helped with wallpapering and painting, which is no problem at all because pregnancy is not an illness… ;-)
Musketier schrieb:
If I understood DerDa’s last comments correctly, he is referring more to the time after the birth.
When the child takes priority for mom and dad. Yep... that’s exactly it. However, as a pregnant woman, you can’t really plan to be able to help out. I know mothers who unfortunately had to be on bed rest for the last two months of pregnancy. Something like that can happen to anyone.
Our little one was about 3 months old when we spent several days on the construction site. There are several challenges with that. It’s colder than at home (fortunately it’s still quite warm inside the prefabricated house) and it’s dirty and dusty as heck. This screed dust is everywhere and settles right in your nose.
On top of that, a small child needs to be entertained, or wants to be breastfed every two hours.
You shouldn’t underestimate the time it takes to just wallpaper a house. And especially with a toddler around, it takes twice as long 🙂
But otherwise, I can really recommend it; it’s a great distraction from the boring waiting. I also advise choosing the furniture and so on before the birth 🙂 After that, it’s hard… here in Karlsruhe you sometimes wait two hours until a salesperson has time to enter the order into the computer. Our little one didn’t always have the patience for that 🙂
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