Big changes

I think we've had the most productive week yet this week.  The biggest news is that our countertops came in and we have sinks!  With running water!!

I know this looks like "just a sink" but that's the point!  We've only had bathroom sinks for the last two months.  

Laundry room sink.  Both the sink and faucet are from Ikea.

It's the Numerar sink and I love the washboard in it and also how deep it is. 

This side of the laundry room is actually finished.  You can see in the reflection of the dryer that the cabinets on the sink side don't have doors.  The cabinet guys were drilling holes for all of the handles and drilled in the wrong place on all of the doors in here.  We were SO close to having a room finished.

Speaking of sinks and being close to having a room finished....we finally got the powder room sink installed after having it sit in boxes since the week we moved in.

And it's the wrong sink.  

I would have just kept it if I liked it at all.  But I don't like the curve at the front.  So now we have to wait 6 weeks for the right one.

The appliances came yesterday.  We got everything from Shay's here in Mountain Home.

The fridge is large and in charge!  I had hoped that it wouldn't look so big once it arrived but it does.  Oh well, it was still the best deal so that makes me happy.

I'm afraid that I'm going to have to read the manual for this thing cover to cover.  But once I figure it out, I think I'm going to really like it.  I love the double drawers!

And here's the range.  I can't use it yet because the vent hood isn't installed and who knows when it will be.  I won't go into all the trouble the vent hood has caused because I want to pretend building a house is fun.    I'll just say the builder and I don't see eye to eye on this......

So since we finally had sinks and I could actually do dishes I decided to cook dinner tonight!  Brad had been talking about lasagna for a week so that's what we had.  

Obviously, I could have used these small appliances all along but I didn't have a way to do dishes so I couldn't have washed anything.  The thought of washing dishes in a dishpan in the bathtub disgusts me so bad that I'd rather do without a home cooked meal than do that.

I do believe this is the first time in my life that I was excited to do dishes!  I'm pretty sure that I won't take my sinks for granted for quite some time.

The fireplace was also installed this week.  I would have been fine with gas logs but Brad wouldn't have it.  So it has a gas starter but will burn wood.  We'll see if we actually use it.  The brick layers are supposed to here next week to put the rock on and I think the mantle will be here too.  It actually came in last week but somehow got lost and our builders never got it.

We've had our eye on the Iron Stag from Restoration Hardware for a while.  We went to the store while we were in Dallas last week and I asked about it again. I knew it was online only but was glad I asked.  It happened to be on sale and they gave us free shipping!  

I thought it was going to be a while before it shipped but it arrived today!  We LOVE it!

And if all of this wasn't enough, Brad found the two lampshades that I've been looking for since the first week we moved in!!   I had decided that they'd fallen off the moving truck.