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Kitchen complete

The kitchen is finally done: granite sealed & polished, floors vacuumed and swiffer-wetted many times, cookware & utensils: check, cutlery & dish sets: check, and other misc kitchen must-haves picked up while mom was in town the other week. Kitchen nook is finally furnished - Costco Home in Kirkland has some great deals; even though most of their stuff is not my style, the kitchen table fits well. I still have a bare pantry and empty fridge - and if I wanted to make toast I'd still need to buy a toaster. But otherwise, I am set to make all the ramen I need to survive.

Many pictures, different angles, lots more on my flickr:

Furniture Spree

Ok not really a "spree" but it still pained the wallet. Today I went to Dania with my brother (our original quest was to get me a mattress from a discount outlet); it's important to me to have my brother's opinion on most anything I do involving the house. He's on his 2nd house now so I trust his opinion on stuff. If anything, his taste and style have been pushing me more forward than my somewhat conservative tastes. I'm a hypocrite...I say I want to be more contemporary/modern but my pickings still seem to lean traditional; it helps that my brother helps open my eyes and bluntly calls what I like as 'old-manish'.

So I got the Pisa queen bed, two nightstands, and a double dresser. It's very eye catching because of the high gloss finish and the extensive inlay work. It's by "Italian Design Group" or something, made in Italy as well. Dania describes the bed as:

Finely crafted in Italy in high gloss Canaletto veneers with zebra wood inlays, the Pisa bedroom features a gently curved head and foot board.

Costco Home finally has my kitchen nook table set in stock, so I'll be picking it up this Saturday. It's this table, but not the same chairs - and for much less than what Costco Online is selling it for.

House update 07/06/07

What a hectic week. Multiple visits to house to make sure all the repairs, detailing, and touch ups were done. Appliance delivery today - the house finally looks like a home. Window measurements and treatments guy came (Hal of Window-ology was very friendly did a great job explaining and offering his opinion). Garage door opener installer guy came too. Earlier this week I think we were all extra picky about cosmetic details because it was not occupied by "home-stuff," once my mom and I started bringing in all the stuff we bought from BB&B, LnT, and Target, it started feeling more like a home with personality/flaws and less of an exhibit. The stress of turning the house into a home started melting away.

I stayed about 7 hours in the house running around between the workers, installers and window guy. Amazing how fast a house can come together with multiple people all working at once to make it presentable. It was a fortunate coincidence the Pella guy came to measure all our windows today for screens, I almost made a call to my brother's screen-guy to pay for screens.

Garage door opener: 1/2 hp Genie Stealth Pro - Kevlar belt driven: extremely quiet, my parents have this same motor back in San Francisco

Sears appliances: Kenmore HE2 washer and dryer, Jenn-Air French Door Stainless Steel fridge - the installers did a great job with protecting the floor when carrying the fridge and were very careful about testing the washer and dryer to make sure everything was working.

Window treatments: A mixture of wood blinds and cellular shades; one neat thing I sprung for were motorized cellular black out shades in the master bedroom. I look forward to waking up in the morning and hitting a button for sunlight.

Excuse the poor English - too exhausted to form complete sentences. Here's something interesting...according to zillow and cyberhomes my house doesn't exist! Ignore the surrounding house listings; they are a different developer altogether.