Today was a big day for us! Carpet has begun! It will be completely finished tomorrow. Our poor carpet company...we ordered it quickly in December thinking that the install would be first week of January. Feb 4th turned out to be the magical day instead. Here's a sneek peek (well, a sneek peek of the pad anyway...):
No shaggy, frise carpet for us. Our carpet has a short pile with small squares that don't show well in a photo. The color is brown/gray/taupe--but not in an old lady's wrinkly nylons sort of color--it's really pretty. I agonized over the color choice. Again, such a permanent and obvious thing. I hope the color works with what we have already done. I probably should have consulted with a designer but didn't.
After our FHE lesson
http://www.lds.org/hf/fhe/welcome/0,16785,4210-1,00.html by Estee (she did great, lesson from The Friend on "You Can Be A Missionary Now") Brent and I ran back to the house. I left to this (cheered my heart), big sister helping little sister practice:
Brent kept putting up bathroom hardware. That takes longer than I expected. Measure, find the stud, put together tiny parts with the world's smallest screws, etc. He also worked on more finish work plumbing. I was back to scraping and vacuuming floors. I needed to finish the upstairs floors since the carpet will go down today. We did more touch-up paint but I still have oodles more to do. Has anyone seen our drop cloth? It walked off yesterday.
We are still waiting for cabinets to be finished. This has by far been the longest and slowest relationship with a subcontractor. We are weary of "we'll be there tomorrow" and then no show.
We aren't quite finished so we moved the final inspection to Wednesday afternoon. We must must must pass as soon as possible in order to close our loan and keep the unheard of interest rate that we locked in for 60 days. 60 days went by way to fast. Wish us good luck.
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