So Fritz, our friend and neighbor, has this very funny habit of giving everyone and everything a nickname. Nothing malicious or anything, just for fun. In this case, the nickname is for Scandanavians, and it is Scandahoovian. Quite funny if you ask me, but I haven't asked any Scandahoovians yet, so I have no idea how they feel about it. Scandahoovians out there, here's your chance to sound off, what do you really think?
So anyway, E and I are at IKEA checking out the kitchen stuff to get ideas for our kitchen. By the way, they have some SUPER-cool things in their kitchen department, if you want to re-do your kitchen on the not-so-expensive, you have to check them out. Go IKEA!! But uhh, back to the lecture at hand Perfection is perfected, so I'ma let em understand from a young G's perspective -- whoa, no more Dr Dre! Anyway, there we are, at IKEA checking out the kitchen stuff, talking to other shoppers, when we noticed something rather peculiar. THE INDIANS HAVE GONE SCANDAHOOOOVIAN!!! I didn't realize it at first, but there we were, in a sea of Indian people, shopping at IKEA.
I guess there isn't anything peculiar about this, but it just seemed odd at the time. Not to mention that it is always fun to say Scandahoovian, in any circumstance.
Ok, that's it, its Friday afternoon, my brain is mush, so I'm out.
So this morning I noticed that it seemed exceptionally cold. It turns out that it WAS exceptionally cold, to the tune of -4 degrees!
Other than that we haven't been doing a whole lot. I have been reading like a demon, and E has been learning how to develop websites in her spare time. We are still making more decisions on the loft although they are sometimes VERY frustrating. We met with the Kitchen guy last night and we essentially changed everything. We changed from the cooktop in the island with a double wall oven to a slide-in unit and an Advantium oven in the wall instead of a microwave. We also replaced all the lower cabinets with drawers so that there are not going to be any corners that are useless without climbing into the cabinet.
We are essentially having to start all over in the tile department, with the exception of the laundry room. We were told that we couldn't put slate on the walls in the shower because some bozo with 859 shower heads in his shower and a garbage disposal drain (Kramer) spent 957 consecutive hours in the shower, and ruined the drywall behind the tile. Now I ask you, is that fair? Not really, but then as my mom always says, 'life isn't fair', or another personal favorite, (but not from my mom) 'fair is where you get cotton candy and ride the ferris wheel'. So anyway, we are going to look for more tile, but porcelain is SUPER expensive and it turns out that slate is the least expensive natural stone you can buy, by a LOOOOOOOONG shot.
For plumbing, we are looking at things a little different and may be making a whole host of changes, but that is for Tuesday night of next week. We are hoping to bring the upgrade costs down significantly in the next few weeks just to get closer to where we want to be price-wise. We don't want to price ourselves out of our loft by putting too many upgrades on.
One thing I can say, this has been a HUGE learning experience, and it would be MUCH more difficult without talking to our families, and Fritz (the realtor). Mad props to you all!! (sorry had to throw that in there, no real reason for it...)
Other than that we haven't been doing a whole lot. I have been reading like a demon, and E has been learning how to develop websites in her spare time. We are still making more decisions on the loft although they are sometimes VERY frustrating. We met with the Kitchen guy last night and we essentially changed everything. We changed from the cooktop in the island with a double wall oven to a slide-in unit and an Advantium oven in the wall instead of a microwave. We also replaced all the lower cabinets with drawers so that there are not going to be any corners that are useless without climbing into the cabinet.
We are essentially having to start all over in the tile department, with the exception of the laundry room. We were told that we couldn't put slate on the walls in the shower because some bozo with 859 shower heads in his shower and a garbage disposal drain (Kramer) spent 957 consecutive hours in the shower, and ruined the drywall behind the tile. Now I ask you, is that fair? Not really, but then as my mom always says, 'life isn't fair', or another personal favorite, (but not from my mom) 'fair is where you get cotton candy and ride the ferris wheel'. So anyway, we are going to look for more tile, but porcelain is SUPER expensive and it turns out that slate is the least expensive natural stone you can buy, by a LOOOOOOOONG shot.
For plumbing, we are looking at things a little different and may be making a whole host of changes, but that is for Tuesday night of next week. We are hoping to bring the upgrade costs down significantly in the next few weeks just to get closer to where we want to be price-wise. We don't want to price ourselves out of our loft by putting too many upgrades on.
One thing I can say, this has been a HUGE learning experience, and it would be MUCH more difficult without talking to our families, and Fritz (the realtor). Mad props to you all!! (sorry had to throw that in there, no real reason for it...)