Weird and trash
Posted by K Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:12:00 GMT
From the “oh, the weird things you see working at home” files.
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a barrel of this: house
Medicine Cabinet 1, Peel Away 0
Posted by K Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:46:00 GMT
Or, why maybe I will suddenly decide “shabby chic”, which usually makes me roll my eyes when I see it on eBay, is okay.
Read more...Weekend
Posted by K Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:19:00 GMT
The highlight of the weekend, housewise, has been a toss-up thus far.
Read more...Catching up
Posted by K Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:36:00 GMT
Some days it seems like we are getting nowhere, but we are always doing something (even if that something is returning something to IKEA or going to The Container Store for the millionth time) so I am not sure why our efforts feel so fruitless. The contractor disappeared for a while (but has since made a reappearance) so in the meantime we have done a bunch of random things, some things he was supposed to do, and some things that we just needed or wanted to do.
Read more...Oh you transom devil
Posted by K Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:57:00 GMT
Last weekend we took to the transoms with Peel Away and some scrapers. Pictures over here.
House photos
Posted by Matthew Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:54:00 GMT
I posted some “after” pictures taken today. The house is starting to shape up though as you can see from the images we have plenty of unpacking to do. K did an excellent job of creating a make-shift kitchen and we stocked the fridge yesterday. I learned today that scraping two layers of paint off of both sides of a window pane is quite tedious and tiring. Time to get a heat gun.
We had some heart breaking news on Thursday that I won’t go into here. It made the house go from albatross to salvation. At least we have a massive project to keep our hands and minds occupied. At some point I’ll stop and deal with this devastating news but for now I’ll keep scraping away at paint.
Welcome to DC
Posted by K Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:46:00 GMT
After a very stressful last week wherein the movers (Movex: avoid them since they are brokers, not movers, and just as problematic as that might entail and everything you might read at the movingscam.com forums could indeed happen to you) told us they didn’t have a truck for us on the day they promised and there was scrambling and rescheduling and then the truck got dropped off the morning we were supposed to get it, anyway. We got the truck loaded and even though I don’t actually know where it is or have any tracking or anything, we are “promised” by Movex that it will show up here on July 7. I am not sure how much I believe that promise, but in the meantime I sit here in our friends’ house listening to the endless and annoying fireworks the people outside are setting off. And watching bad movies. I finally got more than 4 hours of sleep last night and am coming around to east coast time a little bit.
Read more...Things can only get better
Posted by K Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:16:00 GMT
Apologies to Howard Jones. Or, I should say, apologies to you for bringing up bad songs from 1985. I have no idea why my brain does this to me. This is, I suppose, the price I am paying for sort of being able to sleep the last few days.
Right now, other than moments of hot-flush-inducing absolute terror I have when I flash on thinking about how horrible it will be flying with the cat (very unhappy, and I will have to go through security and deal with taking the cat out of the carrier and carrying him through, while also taking off my shoes AND proving to the TSA that my laptop is not a bomb) or wondering if all our stuff really has a chance of fitting in the space in the truck we have reserved, I am kind of OK. We have to get rid of a bike and some plants and pots and various things like that, and pack the dishes/bath stuff/clothes we have been using and haven’t packed yet, but things seem under control.
Read more...Poop Boxaroo
Posted by K Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:10:00 GMT
Things are just getting worse.
- the AC guy may or may not have fixed things (and wants more money for it, and this is where I guess things get sticky, since yeah, he had to do extra work, but then if he hadn’t messed things up in the first place/had consulted with us before taking drastic measures he wouldn’t have had to redo anything) but we have no idea because we haven’t seen anything
- the LR floor is hosed—plywood—and we have no idea what to do (there is some old/reclaimed floors guy I got in touch with today who is hopefully going to come tell us what to do, even though our contractor might not like that because it will take some time and he wants us to put down whatever and be done with it)
- I am on the verge of crying 24-7, having breakdowns over things like drawer pulls (while simultaneously realizing that drawer pulls are the least of our worries), and am getting choked up randomly thinking about leaving here.
- I seem to be unable to actually sleep without medication of some sort. Or alcohol, which seems to work until 3 or 4 AM at which time I wake up in a panic (so I am not going down that route, in any case, since that is almost worse than not sleeping at all, and besides, who needs a drinking problem)
Because I need to be able to knock one thing off the endless Stuff To Do List, I am looking for a litterbox. Thank god for the Poop Boxaroo. I think the Poop Boxaroo sums up how I feel right now.
Note that I am not (not a chance!) getting the Poop Boxaroo, even though it claims:
“Why not give your kitties the privacy they deserve while disguising the litterbox?
Features a removable top for easy cleanup that doubles as a resting spot and four cute carpeted ball feet.
The outside of the litterbox enclosure is completely carpeted and the inside has been polyurethaned to reduce odor and to make cleanup a snap.”
I am not sure that a carpeted box with huge pawprints on the side is really a good disguise for a litterbox.
So maybe as of yet I have not figured out what to do about the litterbox (get one and send it, buy one online, make someone I know in DC go get one?) but I did manage to buy a range hood tonight. GE Profile JV536 30” blah blah highly rated by Consumer Reports and I was smart enough to order it from the place that was a little more expensive in actual price but didn’t charge NINETY-NINE dollars in shipping on a 200-odd dollar order, which is insane. Although I was still too dumb and hasty and just now found it for 30 bucks less. If I wake up early enough to call New Jersey tomorrow morning maybe I will cancel and reorder in the name of saving money.
I have also decided (with Matt’s approval) to get crazy and mix black and stainless appliances.
Hooray for tile
Posted by K Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:13:00 GMT
Kristin just sent us some new pictures of the house, so we can see more of the duct fun, and the bathroom tile (which is moving along at light speed, it seems). Check out a few I grabbed from her and put up, over here.
