Pfffffttttt - Or, in other words: Bleh...

So much for my excitement of getting the living room and kitchen done by Christmas.

We got our living room furniture in, it was beautiful, except for the fact that the cream color portion of the paisley print came in as a mustard yellow! Worst thing is, it's not even supposed to be available in mustard yellow. According to the lady at the furniture store, it was a problem with the dye so there is no guarantee that it won't happen again if we reorder it... I took the pieces home and tried to make myself like them, but I just couldn't do it. I can't be so desperate to have furniture for Christmas that I accept furniture that I will hate for the next 5+ years. We took the pieces back and asked about ordering my second choice set. Sure, no problem. It will be at least 6 weeks... Ick...

I know I'm impatient, but I REALLY wanted to enjoy Christmas in my "new" living room. I guess we'll be opening gifts while we sit on the hardwood floor Christmas morning. The living room looks so bazaar  Christmas tree in the corner, a coffee table in the middle of the room and two awkward end tables placed in random places- all just waiting for the beautiful furniture. Sigh...

Then, there's the kitchen. Oh dear, the kitchen... Well, of course I had to rearrange the placement of the appliances and as a result, move cabinets, and as a result of that, we had to run new gas lines and stove ventilation  What I expected to be a one or two evening project turned into a week long fiasco of missing pieces, wrong pieces, mistakes, miscommunications, misalignments and misplacements. Both Dad and Jordan requested not to (aka: refused to) begin on any of the cosmetic projects until these were done properly.

Needless to say, with the holidays, Amy's wedding and hectic work schedules, this is all we have gotten done since my last post. I am definitely feeling pretty "Bleh" about the whole thing at the moment. With Amy's wedding coming up in like 11 days, I'm guessing we're going to be so busy that we are pretty much at a stand still on the house for the rest of the year. Hopefully the new year will look brighter

Worth the Wait!

Jordan eating romain noodles in our
partially demo-ed kitchen with his fridge

So, a bit of a break from my normal "observations" that this house project is taking WAY too long. We were able to purchase 3 of the 4 main kitchen appliance during the Black Friday sales (been planning on doing this for almost a year now - I thought it would NEVER come!!)! We bought the appliances Jordan picked out, so,  in the spirit of how our marriage works, it was only fair that if he got his way on something, I get my way on the next thing. After, rather creatively, figuring out which pieces would fit in the room, we ordered my living room furniture last Thursday. It will be in this Thursday! I want to leave work early to go get it! I'm really excited. I literally picked out this set 9 months ago - before we even bought the house.

Minus the tree - all of this plus an
armoire went into 2 SUVs

Much to my parents' relief  we went yesterday evening and moved all of our dining room furniture out of their storage shed. We brought a gigantic armoire, a dining room table, 4 chairs, a bench, various artwork, a sofa table, the 3 piece living room coffee table set, a large mirror, a desk, 4 roman shades and countless odds and ins - all in two SUVs. That was no small feat! Not to mention, by the time we got off work it was completely dark (the shed has no electricity), 34 degrees and extremely muddy from the freezing rain from earlier in the day. We were not going to let that stop us! We are so ready to start finishing some projects!

My dad was hilarious. He kept walking around the shed asking, "how about this" - "are you ready to take this" - "don't forget that" - both my dad and Jordan's dad do this every time we take something of ours out of their attic or shed. They are like, "PLEASE, take more!!!!" I promise, Dads: We are trying!

Utilizing the dining room for work the very first day the table moved in.

We are very excited to finally be moving furniture in. I wanted to have the entire new addition done by Christmas. That doesn't look like it is going to happen - but, on the up side, we should have living room, dining room, front hall, guest room, laundry room and guest bathroom totally done - including artwork and furniture. We'll have our master bedroom almost finished and have a solid start on the kitchen. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but not bad. We are moving slow, but I am happy with every room so far. I guess it's a long process when you make sure a job gets done right (and when you have 15 rooms!!).


We will get to have Christmas morning in our new living room and dining room!

Our first Christmas tree in our new house