{"id":48,"date":"2008-05-19T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T06:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-05-27T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:21:11","slug":"chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that things should be coming together around now. Instead, it feels as if the chaos is taking over, like in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neverendingstory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Never Ending Story<\/a>. We&#8217;re still busy chasing pipes into walls, making holes for plumbing, and so on &#8212; I think mostly because of lack of planning on my part &#8212; I&#8217;ve not been able to visualise the process properly, to make sure that things get done in order.<\/p>\n<p>OK, some of this is due to plans changing on-the-fly, but still.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, Colin helped me out with the kitchen layout over the weekend. We sort-of decided that the counter tops can&#8217;t be postform, mainly because of the 400mm prep counter with the 600mm bump over the dishwasher, a constuct like that has to be something expensive like granite or Corian or something simple like Formica with wood edging. Provisional choice is cherry.<\/p>\n<p>The ceiling in the living room is in, being cretestoned and corniced today. That at least counts for progress.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:1704,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neverendingstory.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311171834\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.neverendingstory.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 06:19:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-04 02:05:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 09:15:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 05:13:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-14 01:51:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-19 02:40:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-25 22:15:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-30 11:12:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-11 05:33:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-18 09:45:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-21 12:07:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-21 12:07:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that things should be coming together around now. Instead, it feels as if the chaos is taking over, like in The Never Ending Story. We&#8217;re still busy chasing pipes into walls, making holes for plumbing, and so on &#8212; I think mostly because of lack of planning on my part &#8212; I&#8217;ve not been able to visualise the process properly, to make sure that things get done in order. OK, some of this is due to plans changing on-the-fly, but still. On the upside, Colin helped me out with the kitchen layout over the weekend. We sort-of decided&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,15],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-kitchen","tag-ups-downs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}