Furniture, Now We are Civilized! 1-13-08

Friday the carpet was finished and Larry got all the doors re-hung. It took over an hour and lots of emptying of the filter from the vacuum cleaner to get the carpet all tidied up, lots of loose fibers and fuzz. It is very nice now that it is all finished. Here is our bedroom with its lovely non-accent wall.

Saturday Larry did all the prep work on the walls in the bathrooms and I touched up the walls from having the carpet installed. The touch up needed wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be with all the scraping we heard!

We went into Reno to order the bed set for the guest room. It arrives on Thursday. Reno is growing and changing so fast…we drove around for over a half hour looking for the Target store and we couldn’t find it…asked someone finally and it isn’t there any longer. A least we hadn’t lost our minds.

Then it was back to Home Depot for more miscellaneous stuff for the closets and bathrooms. We went into Sparks where there is a big new shopping area looking for nightstands. We check out an import store, found something that would work, but we felt it was overpriced. We went next door into Bed, Bath and Beyond and right in the foyer were nightstands and just what I was looking for. We bought two walnut stained and two white ones. We got a call from the furniture store wanting to move our delivery date of the bed up to Monday…works for us!

After we got home that evening Larry worked at assembling them. The first one had a split in the backboard, but it wasn’t critical. The second one had the wrong rail mounted on the sidewall so we can’t use one of the drawers until they send us the part to fix it. The varnish stinks so bad they are sitting in the garage de-stinking, we hope. Larry then began on the white nightstand and the back had blue writing all down it, some packer had written on the foam wrapping it and it bled through, it went down hill from there…scratched pieces and then a broken piece….well, it all went back in the box with a lot of verbalizing on the part of the assembler. Both of the white ones are going back to the store, which is in Sparks, so 130 mile drive and hoping that they new ones are o.k. Larry will probably assemble them there before we head home.

Today we worked on the bathrooms. I taped and draped and Larry painted. I cleaned the recliner area of our trailer and we put our recliners back out there where they belonged. Larry got the new lights up in the bathroom…what a wonderful difference. I haven’t taken pics of them yet.

Our furniture arrived and I futzed around with them, pushing them here and there until I got them where I think they’ll stay for now. The tables joined the nightstands out in the garage, they are stinky too. So are the couches…everything new stinks and this is the wrong time of year for redecorating, it is too cold to leave the windows open to help get rid of the smells. It is really nice to have furniture again after two weeks of empty rooms. The second picture is how I left them…today.

We hope to be done in another week with all this settling in. We still have lots of stuff to bring in out of the trailer. Tomorrow the guest room bed gets delivered so that room will be finished, well almost, we need to get the nightstands replaced. I take weeks to get stuff hung on the walls.

Our truck has to go to the truck doctor and get its fuel injectors replaced. It is stinking and smoking, we got a notice about them awhile ago and Larry hopes they can get everything ordered before we have to leave it at the shop. Having only the one vehicle makes it tough when it needs maintenance.

Today we didn’t see any sunshine, just lots of freezing fog. It started to lift for a bit this afternoon, but then it settled back in. This last picture I took of ice crystals that had formed on the handle of the trailer. These crystals were on the trees and everything.