House journey
July 2, 2010
These past few days we've put up curtains, bought an end table for theliving room, did a lot of returns and exchanges, put up the space
saver 3 tier in our bathroom, and worked on the cars. Since my car accident we haven't found a car to replace it. For this
reason, we've been driving the off-roading jeep around and it's been
pretty reliable thus far. Until yesterday, the coolant was leaking
and now is not driveable. We would run a very high risk of the car
over heating and so on and so forth. Because of this, I wasn't able
to go into work today on a Friday! Now there's this strong sense of
urgency to get the Prelude up and running so it can pass the emissions
test. The jeep is costing us a lot in gas. I'd say every other day
with both of us driving has been costing us and average of $50.
That's only going less than 200 miles a tank. Sucks. So hopefully I
can get financed for the subprime car loan and drive off with a newer
car. Anyhow, regarding the curtains we've changed the look of the curtains
twice now and possible a 3rd time. First we started with the Ivory
Venice brand curtains but thought that it would look best in the
family room and it does! It looks gorgeous in there. Because I
didn't want to have the same exact curtains throughout the house, I
didn't want to put the same Ivory Venice curtains in our room. So I
bought another type of Ivory curtains that were knocked down from
$29.99 to $14.99 and I received an additional 20% off of that so it
came out to $11.99. Then we'll have almost all Ivory curtains. Ivory
Venice curtains in the family room, and white Venice curtains in the
dining room and white curtains in the living room. Too much of the
same color. He thinks the blue with flowers on it will look good in
our room, but I just can't picture it. Even with my lack of vision, I
may just go with it because it just seems overwhelming with all the
ivory and white cutains in the rest of the house. Our room is still pending for curtain rods and curtains. We have less
than 2 weeks left until his parents get here. The stress is on!
Thankfully, we have curtains in the living room up already and over
the french doors. We just need to put up the rod and curtains for the
dining room today and it will pretty much dress up the windows in that
part of the house. Yesterday, we ordered our dining room table and I
cannot wait until it gets here. It will really make the home feel
complete, contemporary, and beautiful. Now let's see if we can just
settle on the right curtains for our room.
July 6, 2010
Forgot to mention in the last entry is that we painted the shelves in the pantry door and prior to that week we painted the shelves in the linen closet.
Topher just reminded me of how in the begging when we just moved in, we didn't have a couch in the family room yet. All we had were our bags of clothes and suitcases full of clothes. He mounted the TV on the wall by this point and laid on the bag of clothes and bankets to watch TV. Aaaah the good ol days. Thank god it's all cleared out.
So our headboard is up. We got it done actually on the 2nd of July after my last entry. It only costed us $25 cash and a hair cut at my salon. The invoice she gave us was for $110. So it was a pretty good deal for us! She did a pretty good job on the sewing and there's no way that we would've been able to pull that project off. I'll have to post the pic up so we can have a visual.
We also put the curtains up in the dining room but we aren't too "wowed' by the white curtains in there. Unlike the curtains in the living room and the family room, there was a huge wow factor. Since my last entry I said that I would go with the blue flower curtains in our room and I bought them, but then I exchanged it out on the 4th of July. It didn't give it a tadao look. Hopefully the ivory flowers will once we put them up. I'm thinking tomorrow, Wednesday, since he will be off from work.
Today I pulled most of the weeds out in the front and back yard. It was a great sense of accomplishment as Topher would say. NOt to mention, the yard looks nicely manicured. Hopefully that will last for a week. Just before his parents get here. Might have to do a little touch up before they get here and get the place tightied up. Just 2 doors to shave, put on, and paint and hide the back wire speakers and the rest will be cleaning and presentation.