No more dumpster!! |
Carport steps are finally completed. |
I am confused on the upstairs bathrooms, but I do know that they are not finished for whatever reason. However, we were able to use the bathrooms for the first time this weekend! It makes such a difference to actually be able to shower upstairs! The painters tell me we can go ahead and put all of our stuff in there and that they can work around it to finish whatever it is they need to do.
There has also been a problem with getting off the old faucets in the hall and master bath. They needed a different tool or something and were going to have work on that Monday.
This is the hall bath. I found a shower curtain at Target that I loved and matches perfectly. |
Anyway, now that I've come to like the mantle, I do think it is too high. I feel like I'm watching tv on the front row at the movies. Simon suggested we hang it lower, but Graham and I swore it needed to be higher. Clearly, we are not the professional. So, after drilling some long bolt/bar things in the fireplace and hanging the mantle, they are going to have to undo and redo it lower. Woops!
Like I said, it's growing on me and I am starting to really like the rusticness of it. However, it is WAY too high. |
Another shot. Thoughts/suggestions welcome. We also got the Christmas tree this weekend! I ran out of lights toward the bottom and am going to have to get some more to finish it. |
For the fourth year in a row, I tried to go cut down our Christmas tree. For the fourth year in a row, we bought the tree at Carolina Garden World.
Graham did his part and brought the tree in and got it in the stand. |
Accidentally scraped the ceiling with the top of the tree. Good thing the painters still aren't finished! ; ) |
I am really struggling with where to put things, how to arrange furniture, etc. I feel like I finally had everything how I wanted it at our old house, and now I'm back to square one with twice the space to fill. Omg. It is super overwhelming! I'd love to just come home one day and it all be done. My mom and I spent forever last week just getting the china cabinet put together. I'm slowly realizing and constantly reminding myself that this is just going to take some time.
I'm still working on the dining room some, but it is the only room that is basically finished. I need a sideboard for more storage/pretty display, but it is coming together. |
All of my sit out pretty stuff now lives in the middle bedroom. I just don't feel like I can get it settled until I don't have people in and out moving things and finishing things everyday. |
Okay - getting back to the cabinets. We were standing in the kitchen Wednesday (the day the cabinets were "finished") and I see Simon just staring at them. Apparently they are not right and are going to have to be done AGAIN. For whatever reason, the painters sprayed the new cabinet doors with a laquer. (I'm feeling like I've talked about this before). Anyway - the actual cabinets are hand painted. The laquer and the paint are the same color but look different in different finishes. So, when they glazed the cabinets (I was really happy with the new glaze color, btw) the glaze looks different from the doors to the cabinets. The cabinet doors look more grey and the cabinets look more brownish.
I think it's most obvious (especially in person) on that huge cabinet door. It looks really blue/grey to me - a lot different that the part above the microwave. |
I have no idea what will be done to fix it, but Simon says (ha - that has taken on a whole new meaning) that the painters will be making it right. So...we still wait on the painters.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at our house was a success! We clearly are not put together, work is not 100% finished, but we still had a great time.
Graham and Gil went down to the neighborhood Thanksgiving Day "turkey fry" early on Thursday morning and fried a turkey for us. I think they had a great time eating, drinking bloody mary's, smoking cigars, and talking to all the other men that were there. Luckily, frying the turkey was all we were really responsible for and everyone else brought all of the sides and goodies. It turned out to be a great day and I think everyone enjoyed it!
Maybe this time next year, we'll be finished! Only 2 more weeks...
Graham and Gil went down to the neighborhood Thanksgiving Day "turkey fry" early on Thursday morning and fried a turkey for us. I think they had a great time eating, drinking bloody mary's, smoking cigars, and talking to all the other men that were there. Luckily, frying the turkey was all we were really responsible for and everyone else brought all of the sides and goodies. It turned out to be a great day and I think everyone enjoyed it!
Maybe this time next year, we'll be finished! Only 2 more weeks...
Jamie I just died laughing at "Simon says". so funny. Everything looks great.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! I cannot tell you how many times I've said "well, Simon says" or "Simon said."
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