So I finally got the energy to hang all the curtain rods and curtains in the great room this weekend. I am glad that job is done. No more curtains to hang anywhere in the house is such a good feeling haha. I took the opportunity to clean the inside and outside of all the windows since I don’t plan on taking that sectional apart again for a long time. Those double hung vinyl windows are a cinch to clean, I was pleasantly surprised.

Now time to go watch the game

For some reason the builder decided to put a single mirror up in the master bathroom between the two sinks. This might have just been for budget reasons for the project or he envisioned the buyer changing out the mirror anyways.

Well I’ve crooked my neck to the side for the last time, I went to Home Depot and picked up another matching mirror and hung them both over each sink, oh how nice to be washing up in the morning, look up, and see me instead of wall

The rest of my day was filled with lawn care, cleaning up inside the house a bit. Didn’t get a chance to hang those stinking window treatments in the great room… Oh well, project for another day!

The glorious media room with 60 inches of tv This was probably the first room we setup and really used at the new house. Can you blame us? I’ll try not to bore everyone with details but a quick rundown of what we’ve got running down there…

• Sony 60A2000 tv
• Denon AVR 3806 receiver
• Denon 1930CI DVD player
• Xbox 1 and 360
• Comcast HD-DVR
• 6.1 Focal Sib speakers with Sib XL center and Cub2 sub

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A few thousand dollars later we’re almost done furnishing the great room upstairs. A few before and after shots Here’s how it looked nice and empty:

Since then we’ve setup the dinning room table, and the new sectional and coffee/end tables are finally here, yay!

We found some matching window treatments just have to get the energy to hang them, maybe I’ll find some time this weekend since it’s a 3-day weekend - oh how nice.

We ordered quite an expensive sectional and since it was ‘custom’ we knew we’d have to wait a long time for delivery - no problem there. So delivery day comes and the team of people unload, unpack and setup the sectional with haste. A quick visual inspection looked great, signed for it and off they went. Well upon further inspection the wedge piece in the middle was missing a foot, and one of the holes where you screw the foot into didn’t have a nut (nothing to screw into), it was just a hole. I called to complain to the furniture store and they said it would take 3 weeks to get us another foot! They offered to have a repair guy come and install temporary taller legs for the wedge.

My roommate being a little more vocal than me when it comes to complaining quickly picked up the phone and called them back. They had the audacity to say they were doing us a ‘courtesy’ of sending someone out to our house to install temporary different sized feet for just the wedge. hahahahahhahaha Now I’m not usually the one to get really upset on the phone, but if I had been on the phone to hear that I would have unleashed a wrath upon them.

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