ThisClose

We are thisclose to being finished with the house! We have made our final big decisions, and now it's just a matter of a few things finishing up - installing the appliances, finish staining the railings, laying the backsplash tile, and putting in the rest of the lights, outlets, and bathroom accessories. That's pretty much it! We even already have running water!

One big thing that was finally completed was steps to our rooftop deck! The actual deck has been there since early on, but there were never steps installed so it was a bit challenging to get up there. Mike and I had big plans last Friday night to grab some wine and have a glass on our new roof top deck before going out to dinner, but the torrential rainstorm that came through that night derailed those plans. I was excited to post a nice picture of us gazing over the water, clinking glasses....oh well. Some other time :)

Other pictures that I did take....

Stained railing and practically finished kitchen! And yes, it's still TORTURE that we haven't see the floors yet! So excited for the big reveal.

 

Vanity and lights are installed in the master! They still need to hang up the mirror (I should have taken a picture of it with the faucet on so we can all be in awe of running water).

Love these sconces that we picked for the basement! (notice railing needs to still be stained)

Fancy remote-controlled fan in the light-soaked master bedroom.

Vanity and lights in the second upstairs bathroom (still needs mirror to be hung)

Fan in the back bedroom

Railings in the basement.




The amount of house-based decisions we've made in the last few weeks is astounding. And it's mostly things I've never noticed or cared much about - fans, lighting fixtures, doorknobs, toliet paper holders, towel racks, faucets, etc. One lighting fixture that I'm really disappointed about is our pendant lights in our kitchen. We were excited to go with some super colorful, bold, fun lights...and as I mentioned in my last post, I was excited to find these:

This is what we ordered. So pretty! Nice deep reds, kelly greens, and bright yellows.

This is what we received. Heinous turquois, pukey green, pale lavender, and sickly peach. And poor craftsmanship. And these lights were $119 each, so it's not like I was ordering some po-dunk lights! These clearly had to be returned.

 

Clearly we were VERY disappointed. What made it worse is that the pendants HAD to be on-site, so we didn't have time to order anything else online. I went to several stores on Sunday (Mike was out of town for work, so I was on my own), and finally settled on these. I use the term "settled" on purpose - we don't LOVE them, but they aren't offensive either. They are just fine...they don't make the fun, colorful statement that we were hoping the pendant lights would make. My next career is starting a fun pendant light store - clearly there is a gap in the market for these!

 

Our inoffensive pendant lights. Sigh.

 

Here is a picture of most of our purchased items after a loooooong day of shopping:

So.much.stuff - all labeled and ready-to-go!

 

I'm sure that you've all been dying to hear what we picked for bathroom accessories and doorknobs. I mean, who care about granite choices and paint colors when you can find out if we went with rubbed bronze, chrome, or brushed nickel for the doorknobs and accessories?!?! Here are our THRILLING choices!

 

 

Oh my gosh! Rubbed bronze it is for the doorknob suite! Super-duper exciting.

 

Could you have POSSIBLY predicted Moen Kingsley as our bathroom accessory set? We went with Chrome for the master, and brushed nickel for the other two bathrooms. It is non-stop exciting facts on this blog!!!

 

We have pretty much everything lined up to go, so hopefully everything stays on-schedule. Movers are scheduled to come May 11 (we are so grown-up to hire real movers instead of luring our friends into helping us with promises of pizza and beer!). New tenants move into our house May 15, so we gotta meet that date! I can't really foresee anything that would delay us now, but never say never...