So excited, new stuff arrives

Today our sofas arrived!

The loveseat is still in the packaging as we wait for the piano to be placed in the room first.

The sofa in the living room looks very lovely. I really like the pillows.

It was brought up the stairs by two very nice men from the Furniture Spot. They thanked us for our business and said to let all our friends know about the company.

The local company makes the sofas and are able to deliver them in about two weeks! Luck us.

Appliances sort of...

Well the best layed plans...

We did order six appliances but sadly we only received four.

Both fridges arrived and are working fine (only one drawer arrived cracked). The washer and dryer have been broken in as the first loads have been completed already. Louise says, "they work".

The ranges did not arrive. We were told ahead that the baking kitchen stove would not arrive with the rest of the order and the upper floor kitchen range arrived but in the wrong colour. In desperation I went to Costco on my way home and bought a microwave. Now we can make popcorn if only we had some.

Louise and Roger are now living at the house as their new bed has arrived and they need to guard all our appliances.

The day we got the keys!

Well today was a big day.

At noon mom and Louise met the builder/seller of our new home and received the keys. Our realtor Norm was there and he helped us celebrate the occasion with a few treats I had bought on the way to the house.

I thought the occasion called for some bubbly and I found a bottle a bigger than then type you find on airlines. Just big enough to share a sample and then we had to get to work!

Today was "seal the grout' day.

What a task with so much tile on the floors and in the hallway downstairs as well as the bathrooms shower stalls ---then upstairs there was the kitchen and two bathrooms. We worked dilgently until about 7pm and then we just had to stop as our hunger got the best of us.

Thank godness for White Spot. I really enjoyed the Thai Prawn special. The waitress warned it was going to be hot. I would say only 3 chili peppers out of five.

Oh, after dinner Louise and I stopped by Ikea (open until 9pm on Sat) to pick up some shelf liner paper and Home Depot in order to get a few things. For your information the Richmond HD is closed early on Saturday night so we had to go to the one on Terminal Ave. it's open until 10pm!

Closing and Pocession Dates

Yesterday mom issued her largest cheque ever to pay for our lovely new home. The lawyers have been busy and the closing date was today. We are close to having all the defiencies complete so we can see the end at the light of the tunnel of our moving journey.
On Saturday we should receive the keys and then we begin trying to make our house our home.
Our first task will be to seal the grout on all the tiled surfaces. This will mean four bathrooms and three tiled floors throughout the house! Does anyone have any favourite tile sealing products? Let us know.

Painted

The suite on my side of the house is now painted and it looks fabulous.
So glad we had it done before we moved in.
Mom and Louise met with Timothy (a window covering consultant) and I am happy to report we will have window coverings soon.
Only five more days until we officially get the keys.

Window Coverings

After lots of looking we think we have decided what we would like on about 12 of the 17 windows we have to cover. Rollerblinds, curtains, both, and S cruve vertical blinds so far.
Our last windows that need covering are the large bay windows in the living room and kitchen, the dining room window and the masterbedroom. We are at such a loss of what to put there that we are having a consultant from Arlene's come in and help.
If only they would call us.

Thanks for all who pointed out my typo from the last entry. I have now corrected it.
I have to tell you --- yes I am a bad typist --- but it is hard to type with the lettering missing (no longer visible on the keys). I still sometimes I like to look down at the keys.

I am excited that my bathroom, hallway, bedroom and kitchen will be painted this weekend "driftstone". It's a CIL colour that I quite like.

We found not one SOFA bed but two!

Well things are progressing along with the move.

We have hired a moving company and have worked out what we will move and what we will have the four movers do. It will all be done in one day! That moving does not include the the storage bin that is somewhere out in Delta.

So with movers hired it was back to our checklist of "To Dos".

This week the focus has been furniture. The house may look big from the pictures but wow each room has limited dimensions to get furniture into.

This has been a huge challange as we want to have lots of places for guests to come and sit on stuff or even sleep on!

It has been hard slogging through the many stores that sell sofas.

Louise was first to find one for the TV room on the main floor. It was found at EQ3 (on Granville Street). The colour she choose was "sahara" and will be nice leather!
The magic diamension numbers for our 'Westcoast Indian' room have given us the most grief.

It is a small North facing room and will house the piano. Our concept was to have a piece of furniture that you could go into that room and read a book.

If you are travelling through YVR (as a single) this will be the room for you.

Well only if we could find a loveseat that had a very short (as in length once the bed was extended) bed.

After seeing many, many, many sofas Louise found a local company in Richmond called
the Furniture Spot. They have a a factory here in BC and we liked the sizes of the sofas and the prices too. The best part is they can custom make your sofa in under three weeks!

So if all goes well we should the sofas ready just after or about the same time we are ready to move into the house.

We bought one for the living room and one for the 'Westcoast Indian' themed room at the same store. Throw pillows came with both of the purchases so pictured are the ones we liked best for the different rooms with the fabric we have choosen for each sofa.

Now onto window coverings. Help!

A funny thing happened...

So today a funny thing happened on the way to find a sofa. We were all charged up from our success from yesterday and we headed off in search of a sofa with bed (or not).

We went to Sofa So Good on 8th Ave. We sat on a few sofas and we liked one floor model (especially the price) but it wasn't a sofabed. Then as I wandered around I saw these nice chairs.

Now we have wanted to replace our dining room chairs for awhile but never got around to it. If you had sat in the old ones you will remember that they were well a little soft and you would sink down towards the floor quite quickly. They were really hard on the back and weren't that comfortable to sit in for long periods of time.

Now these chairs I really liked the fabric on these ones and they were so comfortable to sit on.
We sat on more sofas and then looked at the chair fabric more carefully on some cushions sitting on one of the sofas. WE think it will match the flooring and the wall colour nicely. The more we looked at the fabric the more we liked it. Mom took it outside and it was nice in sunlight too.
We were really excited at the price, $99 a chair!

Sadly they only had 5 (what an odd number) but we bought all and brought them home in several car trips this afternoon.

I can happily say that we had a Chinese dinner at our old oak table sitting in our new chairs!

Now after our weekend shopping adventures we can not only feed (from the to be delivered ranges and fridges) but you will also have a comfortable seat to sit in!

Shopping isn't always fun

I am the shopper of the family and have even been known to go on short shopping vacations.

So getting the other members of the family to shop is difficult at best.

Now add the shopping of a whole household of appliances, sofas etc.

After several days of endless shopping I can happily say that when you come to visit we will be able to prepare food for you and let you do laundry if needed.

Thank you to Ed at Trail for making our shopping a good experience.

I chose the above Whirlpool Range (in white) with a convection oven for my baking kitchen!

All is well

We had an inspection of the house and all is well.
There are the typical list of deficencies but it is all little stuff.

As of now we are renters. The sign is gone from the front lawn and it feels a little bit weird to be living in a home that is not your own.

The end of the month will come fast enough as we take pocession on the 27th and we will have rented the house until Oct 31st as to move at our leisure (or when we can get the best price with moving companies).

I have been asked by the family to add to the blog the question,
"Has anyone has dealt with any window covering company in Vancouver and could recommend them"?
We need to buy blinds for a whole house and have no idea where to start.
Please let us know if you have ideas about this.