It was another very full day for us here. The electrician came by this morning to finish installing the new breaker box (I think I forgot to mention that he was here last Saturday but didn’t have everything he needed yet to finish the job so just gave us a temporary fix so we could still have power) and we also got him to hang the new lamps in the kitchen and dining room as well as put two of the lamps in the living room back up. That way we actually have lights in both of those rooms and don’t have to locate any lamps which is actually a bit of a mission at the moment.
Macky also came by in the afternoon to install the drain for the dishwasher and hook up our sink and the little water heater that goes to it. Unfortunately the cool tap that we wanted to use isn’t going to work because it only has two hoses and we need one with three because of the little heater…so we have a loaner for now until we find something we like better. He is also supposed to have the heater guy come out tomorrow to bring us a new pump. It’s still quite cold in the house and we did a lot of playing with the heaters today which brought us a little progress but things are still not quite right there.
We didn’t make any runs to the house today but instead focused on getting things cleaned up and unpacked around here. We still have a very long way to go but at least we’ve located everything hubby needs to be able to go back to work tomorrow (I’m very glad he didn’t go back already this morning since I had no clue where most of his stuff was although I did find the iron already which is useful. And of course all his shirts were still in the bottom of the piles of clothes in the back of my Defender which still have to be unpacked.
The office is finally starting to look like a real room now…and you can actually see the furniture behind all the boxes. The same goes for the living room although we forgot several of the shelves for our DVD bookshelves and therefore have to wait to unpack a few more boxes there. We also decided last night that one of our next projects (sometime in February I guess) will be to build custom shelves for DVDs and CDs which fit under the lamps at the far end of the room. The lamps we have now are just too tall and really don’t optimize the space. But we would essentially be able to fit all of our DVDs and CDs along with a few other things we think with shelves running the entire length of the wall, in total about 11 feet long and 4 feet high.
Our bedroom is also finally starting to get some order although that room actually has been the easiest since there isn’t all that much furniture to deal with and certainly a lot less boxes. The cats are living in here as well so we try to keep things as calm as possible for them. They were a bit disturbed by the painters coming to get their stuff and haven’t really returned back to normal yet (whatever normal is for them) but we are going to try to give them a chance to really explore the house in the following days after we’ve installed the doggy gates. We also want to wait a bit until the workers have finished most things up since that will only cause them more trauma.
Then there’s our sort of “catch all” room which we originally thought about making into a theatre room until we realized we probably wouldn’t really use it. We will likely make it into a guest bedroom at some point but there are closets at one end right now (thankfully since that is where our clothes are – which all happened to fit in there) but the bed should really be situated where the closets are for the room to really flow correctly. Unfortunately the closets are built into the wall and there is no flooring under them so that will be yet another project for the distant future. As you can see, it’s a total wreck but it’s probably going to stay that way for a while as well since the things in there are very low on the priority list, aside from organizing our clothes a bit more.
