This weekend we had a flood. I'm talking 3 feet of water in our basement...it was fun. josh's uncle said we should have gone swimming when we had the chance just to say we did it. Thankfully, none of our stuff in plastic totes downstairs (mostly college textbooks I don't know what to do with and Christmas decorations) was ruined, although it did look like a Christmas resale store on my front lawn all weekend as stuff dried. However, according to the heating/cooling guy the furnace and water heater are shot. bummer. this means no hot water and air-conditioning through this 90+ degree week. lovely. ah well. i have air at work and plenty of relatives with hot water they're willing to lend. attempting to count blessings. my sister is also house-sitting for people with a pool. maybe it's God's way to try to get me outside.
i feel terribly bad for our neighbors...although we had a lot of water, we really don't have too much damage. it's nice to have cement block walls and concrete floors that can handle getting wet. 3 of the houses on the other side of our street have dumpsters in their driveways. that's never a good sign. they also have had stuff spread out on their front lawns all weekend, including couches, boxes, carpet, padding and many other possessions. continuing to count my blessings that we didn't suffer much of a financial loss other than our washer/dryer and deep freezer (still not sure if any of those will work after drying out)
i also feel terribly bad for our contractor at the house this week! i guess he's used to the heat...but still! there was water in our new house's basement as well, but it was strange because we expected there to be water at the 14th st house and there was only an inch. we didn't expect water at the 33rd st house and there was 3 feet. go figure. anyway, the contractor should finally be able to get going on the house! it's been at a standstill for a bit because we've been waiting for the correct building permits from the city. strange because you should be able to walk in there, write a check, and receive your permit...but for some reason it took them a week to issue them. so now we have both the building permit (needed only for the piano room construction) and the roofing permit (would have been nice to have a roof during the storm) so Glenn should be able to get going on the house now! looking forward to some nice progress, and things going INTO the house instead of going OUT of the house. it's been an un-changing war-zone for a few weeks too many at this point.
josh and i are starting to pick out finishes for the house. fun stuff! we are big nerds and now enjoy spending friday nights at menards or lowes to pick out really awesome stuff like kitchen faucets and blinds :) paint colors are really challenging for me, though! any thoughts, please let me know.
question--one of our disagreements right now is that I would really love bronze finished light fixtures and faucets in the kitchen and we have black appliances. josh is thinking this won't look good. i'm thinking it'll look fine. any thoughts? hopefully someone reads this and has an opinion! :)
so really i just have houses on the brain. maybe eventually i'll be able to think about something else, but not right now! and that's just fine with me.
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hey. sooo glad there wasn't more damage than you had. How stressful! And glad to see you're counting your blessings, you've got lots.
ReplyDeleteOk, paint colors, it depends what room, and then also if you're going to do the whole room a color or going to have accent colors. I'm a fan of dark red and eggplant for accent walls.
As far as the light fixtures and faucets, I have grown up with bronze and have liked it. What color are you painting the kitchen? I think that really makes a difference. cause if you do a warm color, bronze is good, but if you do a cool color, def, do silver. Those are just my thoughts! Can't wait to see the progress or demolition where ever it may be, when I come home soon!