Odds & Ends...well really just odds...

I get inspired by some unique items. No clue where they will go in the house.


Found this at the dollar store...isn't it dignified looking?




Easter gift from Brendan as I had longed for it whilst fan shopping at Lowes and he noticed!




I thought she was pretty (came from Marshall's).




Hmmm,... seems like I have a thing for dignified water dwellers. Got this bad boy from Home Goods.

Two Months

This past weekend marks two months since the blizzardy day I closed on the house (according to my documents). Technically I signed over power of attorney that day so my lawyer could close for me (the sellers didn't want to come out in the blizzard) and we dated the documents Feb 10 so my rate lock wouldn't expire.

So here I am 2 months later. Sunday, lugging a few boxes in, kinda mystified that move-in is around the corner. It doesn't look move-inable yet but it's gobs better than it began.

So far brought in my Christmas decorations, and about 10 boxes of books, cds, and dvds. Also brought the spare towels and some other odds and ends...
...One small step for moving, one giant leap for making my house a home.

The Move In Day That Wasn't

I was supposed to start moving in today, and that just wasn't in the cards. Last week the floors were finished, a the pipe through living room wall taken out, and the electric upgraded.

So today, what I did do was pick out kitchen and downstairs bathroom tile, carpet, and tile. Thanks to Nanie I got a new ceiling fan and floodlight for the backyard, as well as a few other goodies, and I am looking forward to a pretty solid day tomorrow of work.

While Uncle John worked on the door (he got me the right side this time), the rest of us cleaned up the yard. As you can see there were some big lugs that needed removing (kidding Danny!)












After all this hard work, Danny had a good steam.




No no no... actually we just went out for Chinese! Hunan Taste in Denville.

iCOLOR! 2

Downstairs bathroom: the tile in the bathtub is like a grayish blue, the walls will be a gritty beige, the tile is a mix of the yellow and grays, the grout dark to bring out the gray tones and the saddle (not shown) goldy looking to tie the beige and yellows in the tile and walls into the hall where the walls are gold.




Upstairs bathroom: the tile is a little more blue in it than the downstairs with similar grays and golds to bring in the sea pine colored walls (similar to the dark blueish greenish square in the pic), the gray speckled white tile in the shower, and the tan glazed white vanity. The grout is tan/gold in to try and bring that out a little more, as well as connecting to the goldy saddle that again runs out to a hall with (this time lighter) gold walls.




This is the carpet I am getting for the bedroom and upstairs hall.

Floors, floors, and more floors.

Brendan had a few days off before starting a new job where he too worked on the floors.

MEANWHILE...

In my last post I went over March 27th Saturday morning-> evening festivities at the house, meanwhile...

We went SHOPPING! Uncle John got us the Lowes employee discount.








It took some creative thinking getting the crown & base mouldings up to the bedroom. After which we painted them all and put them in Harry Potter's bedroom.






Danny was the typical labourer (drinking beer and goofing off with power tools). Meanwhile Uncle John worked on trying to fit a rectangular door in a trapezoidal opening (didn't work).






End of the day celebrating:






Denville Pizzaria

Walls & Floors

Painting continued... we finished the bedroom and upstairs bathroom. Well, really I ran off with Aunt Debbie and crew to Lowes, and Mrs. Ehlers finished painting the bedroom and upstairs bathroom.






Aidan came upstairs to "help".




Actually he, Brendan, and Mr. Ehlers were rockstars on the floors. Note the lovely piece of black walnut I have as an accent now.






By the way, Mr. Ehlers came back for the next week+ to finish the floors. Things took longer because we got like half a foot of water in our basement and saturated the wood.