Love it or Change it…Starting to love it, or is it too soon?

Love it or Change it…Starting to love it, or is it too soon?

The next morning the four of us headed out on our morning walk with an extra bounce in our steps after sleeping in our own beds and traipsing up our familiar street to find our familiar bunnies and to poop (the dogs, not us) in the usual places with just the right smells and foliage. It was a happy morning, still a little strained getting the kids fed and then sorted into their back rooms for the day with water, beds, litter boxes, and food, but we managed happily and arrived at work after our usual, known commute.

Master bath, out of commission.

That evening the doubt seeped back in as to our decision to move back into the house, when we came home to a garage once again filled with tools and building materials with no room for the car, further work on the master shower and toilet, so that there was only one toilet in the house available to us, and the master bath pretty much completely unusable.

Shower, final paint and drywall.

 Our only source of water was the guest bathroom sinks and laundry room, in which the faucet is woefully inadequate for washing dishes.

Rolo making the best of it.

The balance of the kitchen cupboards were delivered that day, and so now the kitchen was even more full of boxes, but the promise of construction to begin the next day in the kitchen made it worthwhile, even if the car would have to stay outside on the driveway for the night.

We soldiered on, T making a dinner of salmon sandwiches (salmon she cooked on the BBQ in the desert the previous day), and then set back to more cleaning. I redid the TV in the family room and washed the dust off the couches, tables, and lamps. Some of the speaker wires had been damaged when removed and I couldn’t seem to get the back speakers to work again, that will have to be a task for the weekend in the daylight, after a trip to purchase some new speaker wire and attachments.

Our two family room lamps were damaged in the fray, the stand lamp just the shade, but the table lamp has a dented base and bent center post, it must have been dropped or had something bashed against it. Unfortunately the lamps are a few years old and will likely be difficult to replace with similar, and we really like them. Overall, there are a few damaged things that we will address with the GC once we do our final walk through, but so far, anything I’ve mentioned has quickly been resolved, or has a promise to do so, so we’re cautiously optimistic that all will be well, other than those lamps…

Angel, hard at work.

Wednesday the cupboard installation began, we met the cabinetmaker when we got home, a darling fellow who takes great pride in his work, creating precision and art at once with his hands. I met with the GC the next afternoon at the house, there were nine workers all furiously completing their various tasks, the garage and driveway was covered in sawdust, numerous power tools and cutting implements, there were at least five work trucks parked around the street and driveway. It passed across my mind that the neighbors might be a little annoyed at all the disruption, but it wouldn’t be much longer…right?!?

It was getting exciting, the shower door had been installed and the wall around the opening to the master shower had received its final coat of paint. The shower was o-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n-a-l…we could use it in the morning!! It looks beautiful, so excited to take it for a test ride!! The kitchen was starting to resemble our kitchen again, and the cupboards are absolutely gorgeous, the new pantry is awesome, and it all seems so BIG!