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!