These past few weeks have been crazy busy with the house. I didn't think that we really were doing that much for sweat equity....but it just so happens that everything we are doing has to be done within a 2-3 week period of time....so that makes for just a little bit of stress, plus Isabelle and I have been sick all weekend so that cut back on what I was able to accomplish this weekend as well. The tiling was WAY more work than we thought it would be. My dad and Charles ended up getting the upstairs bathrooms done but we had to hire someone to finish the laundry room and main floor bath. That was probably the most stressful part of the process so far. The timeline was short to get it done and it was a miracle that we were actually able to find someone on short notice for a decent price. Here are some of the things happening at the house the past few weeks:
Saturday we got our cabinets delivered from Ikea. Everything comes individually wrapped so there were 158 packages for me to inventory. They forgot to give us 1 cabinet frame and gave us 1 drawer the wrong size but we had to go out there that night anyways for our anniversary dinner so we just picked up the correct items while we were out there.
My dad and Charles put together all the cabinet frames. The counter top measuring takes place on the 7th so all the base cabinet frames need to be installed by then.
The trim went in upstairs this past week and now I have 2 weeks to get all the trim and doors painted. We went with the higher (4.5 in) baseboards in the house, and I'm so glad we did. They look amazing!
The main floor bathroom tile:
The master bathroom tile (I need to get over there and wipe off the grout haze). It's white tile with light gray grout. Ignore the paint color...it's way to blue for me so I brought the paint back and had them "fix" it so it will be a different color when it is all done.
The mudroom/laundry room tile:
Charles' Bathroom Tile:
Hardwood floors got started Thursday and should be finished up today! They are kinda dusty looking now so I'll have to take a better picture once they are cleaned up. I won't be able to do that until the very end though because the builder is covering them up for the next couple weeks so that people aren't walking on them.
Saturday Charles and I celebrated our Fifth Wedding Anniversary. We spent the morning running to Lowes and Target with Isabelle, then went to the house while our cabinets were being delivered, back to my parents for lunch and then spent 4 hours putting all the cabinets together, by the time we got home it was 7:15 so we quickly cleaned up and ran out the door at 7:30 so we could make it to Ikea before they closed. After Ikea we went out for dinner at Big Bowl and each got Pad Thai (our fave Asian meal). We talked about how we never dreamed this is what our 5 year anniversary would look like when we first got married (I of course had unrealistic dreams of touring Italy) but we both agreed that it was the perfect anniversary, filled with family and each other and we couldn't really think of anything else we would have wanted to do (except maybe be in our own place already). In exactly 1 month from today we close on our house!!! I'm so excited! I know the time is going to fly by, and I can't wait to finally be in our own place again.
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