Housewarming time!

Goodness, haven't I got behind with my blogging! Not with the house though - I've been super-dedicated to getting things done! In fact, we've come so far that it's time to declare an official housewarming - also our anniversary of moving in.
I'm sorry to say the camera is playing up, so you'll have to believe me when I say it looks gorgeous! Photos will follow when I get around to sorting the technical probs.
Big news: we did get a tenant for a month - an American traveller. It worked rather well and we'll look to do it again. The guest suite stood up to the challenge! For our tenant's arrival we had to get some rough edges sorted...
We didn't have time to paint, but we did fixative the walls so they wouldn't leak dust. We had to get the doors of both the bedroom and the guest bathroom properly finished off. The bathroom had a sliding door cavity, but no door at all, just a curtain. So our biggest expense of recent months was a basic veneer sliding door at E250. I don't like veneer doors, but having failed to find something else, I gave in. It was probably easier to fit than something adhoc. That said, fitting the sliding door inspired a fair bit of bad language on my part!
There were other bits and pieces - door handles, a hook to hang my bike from the ceiling, light fittings, shelves in my record-player-unit-cum-dresser, and I even managed to fit a friend's old door to our cantina (by which I mean the part of the basement which is still like a garage). This is more surprising than you may think, when I explain that the opening was a rather unusual 165cm high!
I finally got around to tiling the landing between the basement "guest" floor and the ground floor. As well as the drilling out and filling in with cement that I'd already done, this involved several more days of work. The old tiles are a chore to fit - they're 4cm of solid dust to cut through! After laying them in cement to the right height and level, I had to wait several days before grouting. The tiles then looked great, but I was still left with an ugly 10cm of rough-edged gap at the bottom of the wall. It was so deep I had to fill it with cement (with the unlucky side-effect of sandiness, causing the cat to use the area as a litter tray), and wait for the cement to dry before I could come back and plaster. While I was at it, I noticed that the stair risers in that part of the house were really broken and messy too, so I set to, scrubbing off a surprising quantity of black gunk, before plastering those as well.
Conclusion: satisfting to me, but probably doesn't look like quite as much work as it was to anyone else!