"That's the meaning of life - trying to find a place to keep your stuff."
Another day. Another obstacle.This weekend we worked on the floors and sanding the walls. After sanding floors for hours and hours over the weekend, we've decided to only have wooden floors in the living room and dining room and carpet the upstairs. We feel like it will be more cost efficient and make more sense. The time it will take to sand combined with the cost of stain and materials coupled with needing to buy area rugs (at least for the girls rooms so they can play on the floor) made us realize it would just be easier and faster to put down carpet.
The floors in the dining room and living room are looking great so far.
We found out today that the water shut off outside is broken, so our water was never actually shut off, they only came in and turned off a valve in the basement... after it had flooded. They will need to tear up the sidewalk to fix that, which means our work on our pipes is at a standstill until that part is done. So now, we wait. The borough said it could be as long as the second week in August, which was going to be our move in date. Fingers crossed they can somehow make it happen faster than that.
The good news is that even though we failed our electrical inspection, I've lined up an electrician to fix the things that need addressed and it isn't going to end up costing a fortune so we may soon be able to put aside the generator and actually have power in the house!
This upcoming week we will work on repairing the walls and getting them ready to paint. We are hoping to start the painting this weekend so we can move forward with getting carpet installed. The only room color that has been picked out so far is Abigail's. We let her pick her own color and she chose a color called Sky Watch. It may not have been my first choice but she is really excited about it.
Here's to better news this week!
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