A Few Finishing Things

We have really been taking it easy lately and focusing more on relaxing and spending some time together since a) we've done a lot of work and would like to enjoy it now, and b) because things are getting very busy at work for both of us and we won't have a lot of time together in July because I'll be working weird hours. So we've done a few things, but not a lot.

Leslie mentioned that we got "presents" from Menards and Lowe's on her birthday. While I don't think we can call them presents, since we did pay for them, the timing was nice and we were glad to have our purchases show up at last (now if only the furniture would get here...). We got the light fixture for the kitchen we ordered a few weeks ago along with the window blinds for our room. Both were installed fairly easily and make quite a difference in finishing up the rooms.

New Light Over the Table

We also finished painting the den a wonderful green colour. We moved a bookcase in and Leslie filled it up like it was at the apartment, but Leslie's dad will be making us two new bookcases to replace that one so we'll eventually be able to have our massive book collection spread out a bit more. We also added a bookcase to our room, which I'll show here once we get it a bit more organized. We're also going to have a different desk, but the old one is in place for now.

I don't know why we even buy her cat toys...

Ellie Helping Us Paint

Paint Paint Paint!

Walls Completed and Some Furniture Moved In

Our Nice, Green Den

Another finishing touch we've made is to buy window blinds for downstairs. They're on the two windows in the great room that face the street and on the large window in the kitchen facing the backyard. These are just the white faux wood blinds from Lowe's, but they look great and really make the rooms look more finished. Ellie also really like to play with the strings... so we'll have to work something out for that.

Faux Wood Blinds

The last little improvement we've done recently was to replace the shower head in the guest bathroom on the second floor. The shower head that was in there was less than great. It felt like a group of miniature fire hoses all hitting you at full blast. Not exactly pleasant. The new shower head is much nicer, though. I also changed out the shower arm to bring the head up higher (tall people like me really appreciate this). So you can all rest assured that if you come stay with us you will have a pleasant showering experience, even if you're over 5'10".

Before

After

And that about does it for what we've been up to on the house recently. These are all just little things, but it really makes me feel good knowing that we did these things ourselves when I know there are people out there who wouldn't have a clue when it comes to installing lights or shower heads. I'm looking forward to learning even more in the future as we attempt other projects.

July will probably be a slow month for house things, but we'll do our best to keep updating as we get work done here and there. In the meantime, thanks for reading and have a happy July 4th! Also, ten points to all everyone who got the "relaxing" joke right away.