floored

the flooring is installed!!!!

aside from a small 3/4 piece that was missing and needs to be ordered, everything is finished!

the past few times we went to the unit was during the early evening and i couldn't get a good feel for the flooring with the paint. so we went on sunday to see it in broad daylight. and it looks much better in the light of day.

the paint looks almost white in this picture!

the one thing i really can't stand though, are the 3/4 rounds all along the walls. i'm totally not a fan of this look, but nolan said it was our only option. oh well. i guess i can live with it.

In Other News...
We've sold the couch, coffee table, chaise lounge...and the tv & tv stand will be leaving us as well.
We found the perfect (for us) couch right when i had given up hope that we'd find something!
Next up is lighting installation (living room) and shelving (shoe closet & all closets)

we have to start packing up our current abode...we'll begin showing it to potential renters this week! i can't believe after all these months, we're finally on our way to actually living in our new place!!!

we have a moving date!!!

a tentative moving date that is.

the moving company nolan wants to use only takes military family moves...but made some sort of exception for us since our move will be pretty minimal, but the stipulation is that we HAVE TO move on a saturday.

this week? nope. too soon.

next week? nope. i'm in a wedding.

the week after that? nope. nolan's in a wedding.

when will it ever be OUR wedding?....<----...how'd that get in there?!? cece did you hack my blogger?

so it'll be the week after that!!!!

i better start packing and looking for big boxes!

in other news...our flooring should be done tomorrow, and then we begin work on shelving and all the feng shui necessities.

and i'm super excited to say that nolan is getting rid of his bachelor pad furniture!!!

WOOP WOOP!

*happy dance! happy dance! happy dance!*

i can't tell you enough how happy i am. but now we need to scramble to find replacement furniture.

i shall leave you with a picture of us jetting off to las vegas...

granite installed!

The granite is installed, and looks great :)

This is our bathroom...the countertop is actually marble that we found on sale at Selective Stone.

If you ever go there, ask for Rexie, she's great! Everyone there is so nice and helpful though.

Our lighting is Sonneman tubo lighting that i saw online and fell in love with but when it came to shipping, it was ridiculous to ship to hawaii...with a broken heart we went to local lighting stores, where i found them!!! picked them up at Lighting Concepts (love that place!) one of the fixtures outer glass casing was cracked so they have a replacement for us coming in. this is our kitchen granite. it's called wild sea, verde...or something like that. i can't remember now. AFTER it was installed nolan admitted to me that he didn't like it when i had picked it out, but upon seeing it in our kitchen he really likes it. (thank god!)


Then on friday we went to lowes to pick up some track lighting...which was all sold out.
note to self: buy when you see it because it may not be there when you go back!!!!
we were accompanied by our little monster:

"let me out!"

seriously?!?! ***EDITED***

so the granite people finished up today...

we went by the unit tonight to make sure there were enough boxes of underlayment for the contractor who will be installing our tile in the kitchen and bath tomorrow...

i walk into the bathroom to check out the countertop that was just installed (it was very nice...pictures to come) and i turn to see that there is murky water just sitting in the shower. not draining. there is a weird noise coming from the toilet. there is also water on the ground in the other bathroom. WTF?!?

first of all...

the granite workers used our new toilet. thank you very much for christening our brand new bathroom. there was a reason we left the plastic wrapping keeping the lid latched down...

all the other contractors had the common courtesy of using the un-remodeled bathroom. thank you for taking off the wrapping and using the bathroom.

AND...maybe before you used the brand new, still wrapped up toilet, maybe you should've checked inside the tank area for other wrapping because now it looks like there's a huge piece of mushy waterlogged cardboard in there.

thanks so much.

SECOND...

as our other contractor assumes that you (granite people) must've tried to empty your murky buckets of watery granite glue (my terminology, of course) down our shower drain...our BRAND NEW unused shower...thanks for that as well.

were you THAT LAZY that you couldn't at least walk it over to the other shower to dump it down? did you really have to use our beautiful brand new, unused shower?!?!?

didja? didja?!?!?

i guess you did.

thanks so much.

Third...

i guess you guys did a not so bad job (as far as i can tell) aside from you trashing our new toilet and shower. maybe it was our fault that we did not specify NOT to use things that look brand new and is still taped up. but i guess we couldn't because we don't speak chinese, and you don't speak english. language barrier aside though...why??? WHY?!?!?!

LF Marble

thanks. maybe i'll be seeing you on yelp.

note to self: create a yelp account.

EDITED!!!

so nolan called to complain and eventually got to talk to the VP of the company who spoke perfect english. she said that they don't use "glue" of any sort but would further investigate the situation. she got back to him and said that the men used the shower to was their hands but as soon as the water started running, water started backing up....

costly kitchen...goodbye window

notice anything different?

we drywalled over the windows....

what?!?! why would we do that?

well, feng shui reasons that we have to have a something solid behind the stove.

something about the stove cannot have an open back....

strange. i know.
it's all coming together.
granite countertops should be installed soon, then onto the tile then wood floors!
THEN WE CAN MOOOOOOOOOOVE!

costly kitchen...cabinet progress day three

what a difference a day makes!

the majority of the work is done, and our new lights are up as well!!!

nolan approves

looks so different without flash...

i love the lighting! nolan picked it out at Lighting Concepts

if you're looking for lighting, definitely check this place out!!!

cabinets:thomasville pulls: lowes (i forget the brand) lighting: lighting concepts

costly kitchen...cabinet progress

Our cabinets finally arrived and installation has begun! (hallelujah!)
This was what everything looked like after day 1 of install:

Day two was much more exciting.
Day two, there was a FLOOD.
yes, another flood. nothing close to the great flood of March 2010, but still....another flood.
another flood that went to the unit below us...they must absolutely detest us.
what happen you ask?
a hole was drilled into the sprinkler system. yikes.
luckily it wasn't as bad as the last flood and none of the cabinets were damaged.

this is what it looked like at the end of day 2:

pardon the crappy iphone photo.

Aside from the kitchen, we've been scrambling to get lighting and fixtures...
more on that soon :)