Aug 7, 2020
Looks like we’ll be home for Shabbos this week. First time since we moved.
Let’s see how it goes. We still don’t have a kitchen.
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Looks like we’ll be home for Shabbos this week. First time since we moved.
Let’s see how it goes. We still don’t have a kitchen.
We started construction last week - gutted the basement (thanks, @laazov, you saved us around $3000+), took down a bunch of walls on the first floor, and the electricity is partially rewired.
This week: finishing the electricity, replacing some water pipes, putting new walls up in the basement, meet with a kitchen person to plan both our kitchen and what will be the tenant’s kitchen.
Also hope and pray the stock market goes back up so we don’t have to borrow money to finish the renovations.
We closed on our house today!
Now on to construction...
Why is it so hard to find kitchen faucets?
On that note - we are so close to being finished with construction! Kitchen counters were installed on Thursday and the rest of the appliances will hopefully be delivered Monday, but the sinks can’t be hooked up until we buy faucets (and drains. Did you know most sinks are sold without a piece to connect the hole in the sink with the drainpipe below it?) and I can’t find one that both me and my husband will like. Not that either of us are picky, but the specific intersection of our likes is hard, apparently. Or expensive.
It is SO SO nice to have a fully kosher kitchen for the first time in our marriage. We have several feet of counterspace for both milchig and fleishig, with a nice height divider between, plus a separate parve counter. And when all is said and done, we’ll have 3 sinks, 2 dishwashers, 2 ovens (one range oven, and one with a counter over it), a separate 2-burner milchig cooktop, and 2 microwaves. And a fridge that has a Shabbos mode with a computer built-in so we don’t even have to remember to put it on Shabbos mode.
I’m going to be so happy when this is all done. And when we figure out how we’re going to pay for all of it...
Update:
Kitchen was delivered, but not installed. There are cabinets sitting in like every empty spot all over the downstairs. You need to climb over them to get to the table, and they’re blocking the freezer part of the fridge.
Hope the installers are coming tomorrow because I’m not sure how long we can manage like this.
Need to buy sinks, faucets, and the rest of our appliances, and also pick out the countertop colors.
Got a delivery date for my kitchen.
Ordered a kitchen for the tenant’s side of the house. Must remember to call the appliance store tomorrow - refrigerators are on back-order because of corona.
The problem with my kitchen is that I have a specific color and idea in mind, and they don’t tell you the price of the kitchen as the layout. I got the layout from the designer, and then she tells me the price. Which was about $7,000 overbudget. So I made some changes and then she told me the new price - still too high.
Turns out, the colors I picked are in the more expensive line. Or something. Every time I make a change or pick a new color, it takes them a day to get back to me with new pricing. They can’t just say that this color will be x amount more than that one, which is really frustrating, and makes it hard to pick.
We’ve priced out the kitchen with 2 different suppliers already, and a third came to our house tonight to take measurements. He actually has the closest color to what I want... the question really is, how important are the colors to me? Should we spend more money (that we really don’t have right now. yay stock market crash) on getting the exact colors, or not? Because I’m not planning on redoing the kitchen for at least 15 years or so, and it’s in the center of the house so I have to be happy with it.
Decisions, decisions.
We settled on a moving date, I think, but packing is going really slowly. We’re going to move in before the construction is complete, because it’s crazy to pay rent and mortgage for so long.
@laazov wanna come over and help pack? Since all the other sisters canceled?