June 2013 Tile on the Floors!

The week before we moved everything out of our house and left the country for the year, we went tile shopping!  Actually, it was Leanne (the first to live in the new duplex), our good friend Jan and I who went to the tile store with Johannes the foreman.   It was fun picking out tile for each side of the duplex, and now even more fun to watch it being installed!

tile stacked up and ready to go!

Sandy (EvFree missionary) finally took a tour of the house to see the tile get put in.

One bedroom complete!

Just days after purchasing the tile, bedrooms were finished!  And then on to the kitchen/living room level...

Living/dining room and kitchen getting tiled as of June 25

So this is how it looked on our last trip to the duplex just hours before our departure from Cameroon.

11 June: Window Glass, Ceilings and Shower Stalls ... oh my!

It's graduation week at RFIS and Ron & I are busy with end of school year responsibilities, trying to pack some each day, moving a little bit of stuff to the duplex storage area each day.  And progress keeps happening on the duplex.

Glass in the windows.

Glass panes in the windows

Varnished wood slats holding up ceiling panels.

All done except light fixtures, switches, and tile on the floor!

The only parts of the hosue still resembling a construction zone are the kitchen, awaiting sink & cabinets, and the bathrooms where shower stalls are still being built.

concrete blocks form a shower stall wall.

June 3 Color

Monday morning this is what I found at the duplex...

Emmanuel pulls cement upstairs 1 bucket at a time

In the left side, Emmanuel was working on the base for bathroom cabinets.

Pouring cement in the base for bathroom cabinet

Meanwhile in the kitchen on our side, the pipes are finally in the wall, so a mason is plastering the final wall in the kitchen.

Plastering the last wall in our kitchen

But what I was really there to look at on this day was the color of the walls.  Johannes the foreman wanted to be sure I approved before they painted any more.  This is what it looks like from the upstairs bathroom doorway, looking at (L) stairs, (Center) one bedroom, (R) 2nd of 3 bedrooms on that floor.

Johannes got a phone call as he was showing me the baby blue walls

Looking into the office on the living room level - varnished door, blue walls

When I exclaimed to Johannes, "I love it!" A smile and sigh of relief came over him.  "That is what I wanted to hear," he said in what was probably an understatement!