{"id":1337,"date":"2011-06-16T05:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:08:29","slug":"remodeling-as-mission-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/06\/remodeling-as-mission-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Remodeling as mission work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can remodeling be work for a missionary? \u00a0Well sometimes it just may be as you have to prepare housing for arriving missionaries.\u00a0 Over the month of May we oversaw the repairs and some remodeling of a house for Paul &amp; Sheryl Noren and the duplex apartment for Marta Klein.\u00a0 This involved traveling the 50 miles to Karawa 5 times, giving directions to carpenters and plumbers and painters.\u00a0 The first job was to clean the entire houses well.\u00a0 Then we oversaw getting them painted.\u00a0 There is no local hardware store where you can have paint mixed to your color preference.\u00a0 Mixing paint here consists of getting a tint, like yellow, blue, green or brown, and putting in small quantities until you get the color you want.\u00a0 Thankfully most the rooms were going to be a simple off-white which we did with 3 capfulls of the brown paint in one 5 gallon bucket of latex.<\/p>\n<p>We also designed the furniture for Norens house as it was bare.\u00a0 Two sets of carpenters started working on a couch, love seat, LR chairs, DR chairs, table and bed frame for an airbed.\u00a0 We decide how high and deep for the seats, how high for the armrests and on and on.\u00a0 We had them cane the seats of all the chairs and the backs of the LR furniture. \u00a0They did a very nice job.\u00a0 (sorry no pics of that)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1356\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/06\/combined-shots-of-Martas-kitchen4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1356\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1356   \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/06\/combined-shots-of-Martas-kitchen4-1024x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/06\/combined-shots-of-Martas-kitchen4-1024x255.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/06\/combined-shots-of-Martas-kitchen4-300x74.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/06\/combined-shots-of-Martas-kitchen4.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">before &amp; after remodeling plus the &quot;new&quot; cabinet next to the stove &amp; window<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More of the remodeling work was in the kitchens.\u00a0 There was old formica in Norens which we took off the plywood.\u00a0 Then we poured a 1-1\u20192\u201d layer of cement and laid ceramic tile.\u00a0 Marta\u2019s kitchen took more work.\u00a0 Pete had a carpenter split one long cabinet into two sections.\u00a0 Then he used \u00bd\u201d plywood from the crate around the new refrigerator, remember no Home Depot nearby, for a new top.\u00a0 On that surface we poured concrete and laid ceramic tile.\u00a0 The objective of splitting the cabinet was to move one section close to the window for more light and to the stove for a work space.\u00a0 This allowed him to move the fridge across the room where it would not block the light.\u00a0 The carpenter working with him repaired the rotting parts of the cabinet for the kitchen sink which we then tiled also.\u00a0 Add to this a light yellow paint and she has a new kitchen.\u00a0 And, Cindy and Marta worked very hard scraping, chipping and at times chiseling the OLD vinyl tile of the kitchen floor. \u00a0It was LOTS of work, but also fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1337&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can remodeling be work for a missionary? 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