We’ve been with our builder now for just over a year and now we’re breaking up. It is amicable, and they will be missed, but we agree – it is time. How ever will we fill our nights and days without a laundry list of decisions and problems to solve? I’m hoping that I will be languishing in a bath or hanging out just staring at the chickens.
I had hoped that this house reveal post would be full of designer ad type photos and could showcase how amazing it all looks. Instead, we are buried in boxes and there is still some construction happening (see the Tyvex wrap on the porch posts) while we work out the kinks of things that got delivered late, doors that need a tweak and some painting corrections. They have just finished the pantry shelving, so I can now move all the boxes that are littering the entry way to where they truly belong and make the decisions for what goes where between there and the kitchen. We are also short a library shelf, but that is a little way down the road and requires the local smithy to fashion us some ironwork, and the parts that arrived broken for our wood stove are still in transit somewhere between Germany and Fernie. It’s all good though, just a bit chaotic and mildly (ha!) stressful. As you can see from this photo, I have less hair and a lot more of it is grey. We have been in for a week now, and I haven’t used my tub yet…that will come!
The kitchen is my favourite place in the house, despite it not having a bathtub. I am learning to love the induction cooktop, but have fallen deeply in love with the shiny perfection of our double-oven. The cabinets, open shelving and countertops are exactly what should be in this house and it all fits. We almost don’t stumble over each other and the layout appears to be working after cooking just a couple of meals with all of us around. (the post-it notes all over the doors are not damage, they are location devices for the family so I don’t have to tell them where everything is…they can READ)
We have almost found the dining room and have managed to get us all sitting around it a few times now. The debris is finding its way out the door or to where it belongs slowly. We’ve also purged a bit of furniture and have discovered that our stay-over blow up pull-out couch has suffered a fatal blow somewhere between Jaffray and Fernie. The frame is bent and now the pull out has dropped too low to pull out. It will find its way to the dump sadly since there’s no repairing it and we’ll have to come up with a plan B for visitors!
For those of you who remember our John Street house, we kept a few mementos from there and have packed them around for the last ??! years hoping to find another use for them. Some of them have a home now. We repurposed the glass knobs from the old doors and our builder turned them into knobs on the louvered closet doors in this house. They’re brilliant. (the knobs and the builders, of course)
We have loads of sorting to do to get to the bottom of all these boxes and continue to take loads of ‘why do we have this anyway” treasures to the re-use-it down the road. We put our foot down with Mom and told her to get rid of a pile of stuff. She took us a bit too seriously I think. (just kidding this picture was taken before all her stuff arrived!) She’s nicely settled in now with a new bedframe and mattress and her usual creature comforts.
Ok, that’s it for now. I have boxes calling me and I’m off to Kelowna for volleyball with Liz this weekend so much will be waiting for me when I get back.
Glad to hear you are in! It looks great!