{"id":1477,"date":"2011-03-16T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2011-03-16T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:36:55","slug":"catching-up-on-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Catching up on progress&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back from 10 days travel on our usual loop down south, some of which probably deserve a post of their own like more mini-golf and a wedding (again, no, not ours!). In our absence quite a few things had changed on the house. Which is good!<\/p>\n<p>First up, the kitchen units were all installed, where they&#8217;d been strewn all around the &#8220;lounge&#8221; when we took off. Just the bench-top, appliances and tap-ware to go.<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kitchenupdate.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kitchenupdate_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kitchen update\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the pantry had been pretty much finished, with the electricians making good use of it to store a few boxes of their bits and pieces. All of the tiles had been laid too, with just the grouting to go.<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kitchenupdate2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kitchenupdate2_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kitchen update\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A highlight for someone seemed to be the laundry. I&#8217;ll give you a hint: It wasn&#8217;t me!<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/laundry.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/laundry.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"laundry\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moving around a bit, the painters had pretty much finished too, so our coloured feature walls had suddenly changed colour too. And luckily they looked fine. Whew!<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/redwall.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/redwall_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redwall\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And lots of other bits and pieces had been added, like door handles, power sockets, waterproof shower paint, a heap of tiles etc, but I&#8217;ll save you the photos showing all the gory details!<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re getting closer! Not long to go now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back from 10 days travel on our usual loop down south, some of which probably deserve a post of their own like more mini-golf and a wedding (again, no, not ours!). In our absence quite a few things had changed on the house. Which is good! First up, the kitchen units were all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}