Yeah, that last post is correct…complete burnout during move-in week!
We moved in on a Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, lo and behold, the cabinet installers came!!! We had been prepared to live a bathtub-dishwashing week of squalor, so this was a major blessing. The thing is, when they called that Monday and said that they only come down south from Chicago every Wednesday and this Wednesday was full, rather than just accept it, I told them our situation and they changed for us! Feels good to be pro-active.
It's a carrera-marble-look formica countertop. The countertop was the first thing our friend mentioned when he said, "Don't over-improve this house!" I was wistful, but I seriously could not be more happy with our countertops. It's always nice when you can save 3-5K and still like the appearance/function. And I'm SO relieved that we didn't try my crazy idea from This Old House of DIY soapstone. What a nightmare.
A few days before we moved in it looked like this...
And then it looked like this:
Remember how we didn't have interior doors for our first few days in the house? Amazingly, Jonathan's dad had decided to use his single day of vacation + his frequent flier miles to fly out here and fix a $1000 car issue that we had. He arrived at 3AM on July 4th and left at 3AM on July 6th. The miraculous part is that he had the car fixed in 30 minutes flat. We had been prepared for two straight days of work, so this was remarkable. That left a whole two days for…hanging doors!!! Somehow it made me feel good to see that even for a guy who knows everything about homebuilding, door slabs are a huge pain. He also put a back on our kitchen peninsula.
We moved in on a Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, lo and behold, the cabinet installers came!!! We had been prepared to live a bathtub-dishwashing week of squalor, so this was a major blessing. The thing is, when they called that Monday and said that they only come down south from Chicago every Wednesday and this Wednesday was full, rather than just accept it, I told them our situation and they changed for us! Feels good to be pro-active.
It's a carrera-marble-look formica countertop. The countertop was the first thing our friend mentioned when he said, "Don't over-improve this house!" I was wistful, but I seriously could not be more happy with our countertops. It's always nice when you can save 3-5K and still like the appearance/function. And I'm SO relieved that we didn't try my crazy idea from This Old House of DIY soapstone. What a nightmare.
A few days before we moved in it looked like this...
And then it looked like this:
Remember how we didn't have interior doors for our first few days in the house? Amazingly, Jonathan's dad had decided to use his single day of vacation + his frequent flier miles to fly out here and fix a $1000 car issue that we had. He arrived at 3AM on July 4th and left at 3AM on July 6th. The miraculous part is that he had the car fixed in 30 minutes flat. We had been prepared for two straight days of work, so this was remarkable. That left a whole two days for…hanging doors!!! Somehow it made me feel good to see that even for a guy who knows everything about homebuilding, door slabs are a huge pain. He also put a back on our kitchen peninsula.
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