Saturday, February 7, 2009
Kitchen, Bathrooms and Light Fixtures
Posted by Pilar at 2:20 PM 2 comments
Labels: Cabinets, Kitchen, Light Fixtures
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The moment of truth
This visit to our house was VERY interesting to say the least... We got to see our house with snow on it for the first time and there are a bunch of changes!!! :-S
It was interesting because we got to see various things finally come together but it was scary at the same time for the same reason :-S LOL I mean, for one, the paint... When we first saw it on the walls we were like "is that pink-ish???" and then I saw the flooring and thought it's too dark, and then the master bathroom tiles and thought they look too yellow... But in the end, I think that it might just be about seeing all the elements and gettting used to them (for instance, I'm the kind of person that, usually, doesn't like a song the first time I hear it)... Also remembering that depending on the furniture we put it that will bring up different shades/tones from the wall color... And last, that we can always change anything later on... It'll be OUR house, after all :-)
So here are this week's pictures :-)
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Esta visita a la casa fue MUY interesante por decirlo de alguna manera... Nos toco ver la casa con nieve por primera vez y habia muchos cambios!!! :-S
Fue interesante porque vimos varias cosas finalmente juntarse, pero me dio miedo por la misma razon :-S Jajaja Por ejemplo, por una parte, la pintura... Cuando a penas entramos a la casa no preguntamos "que onda, parece rosita???", luego mire el piso y se me hizo que esta muy oscuro y el azulejo del banio de nosotros y se me hizo que se veia muy amarillo... Pero a final de cuentas se me hace que nada mas nos tenemos que acostumbras a ver todos los elementos y acostumbrarnos a verlos juntos (yo por ejemplo, soy de las personas que tengo que oir una cancion varias veces para que me guste)... Tambien recordar que dependiendo de los muebles que pongamos va a "sacar" diferentes tonalidades de la pintura y se vera menos rosa... Y por ultimo, que podriamos cambiar lo que queramos posteriormente porque va a ser NUESTRA casa :-)
Aqui estan las fotos de esta semana:
Posted by Pilar at 4:30 PM 0 comments
Labels: Cabinets, Countertops, Fireplace, Flooring, Paint, Update
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Our stuff
Today we went to the Selection Studio to finalize our options for the house!!! John let me pick pretty much all of our stuff, but we went together on Monday because I wanted to show him what I had picked to make sure he also liked it :-)
We're pretty much getting EVERYTHING we could want in our dream house, except for 2 things, one of them is the granite countertops, which I think we can wait a few years to get since it would've added several thousand dollars to the cost of our house; the other one is laminate floors, we really like laminate, because it's easy to clean, durable and pretty, but they only offered hardwood flooring (and can't give us the house incomplete), which can scratch and get damaged easily with doggies inside the house... so we decided to go with some "standard" vinyl (aka no extra charge for it) and change it to laminate in a few years.
Yesterday, John went by himself to the Selection Studio so they would enter the information to the database, since I was at work and they have limited appointments... While he was there he sent me this message: "U are officially the biggest dork to buy a house here. They never had an appt where someone was prepared like this! Love ya"... It made me laugh... but yeah, I was VERY prepared: I made a spreadsheet including code, description, colors, cost, quantity and total cost, I also typed another sheet with the information for the other things that were in the selection sheet (paint colors, siding colors, etc.) AND using the layout, I marked the extra spots for lights, fans and TV conections :-) My reply: "But did that make your appt. faster and easier??? That's what I thought :-) Love ya"... Yes, I'm proud of being prepared :-D
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Hoy fuimos al Estudio de Seleccion a finalizar las opciones para la casa!!! John me dejo escoger casi todo, nada mas lo lleve el Lunes para asegurarme de que le gustaban las cosas que escogi :-)
Vamos a tener casi TODO lo que podriamos desear en una casa, excepto 2 cosas, una de ellas son las superficies de la cocina, yo quiero granito eventualmente pero decidimos esperarnos porque eso serian varios miles de dolares mas al costo de la casa; la otra es piso laminado, nos gusta mucho el laminado porque es facil de limpiar, durable y esta bonito, pero la compania solo ofrece pisos de madera (y no nos pueden entregar la casa sin terminar), la cual se puede rayar o danar facilmente, especialmente cuando uno tiene perros adentro de la casa... asi que vamos a poner vinyl "estandar" (osease sin costo adicional) y cambiar a laminado en algunos anios.
Ayer John fue al Estudio de Seleccion solo para que metieran la informacion a la base de datos, porque yo estaba en el trabajo y solo hacen citas a ciertas horas... Mientras estaba ahi me mando este mensaje de texto: "Eres oficialmente la persona mas nerda que ha comprado una casa aqui. Nunca habian tenido una cita con una persona tan preparada. Te amo"... Si, tal vez exagere un poco, hice una hoja de calculo con los codigos, descripciones, colores, costos, cantidades y costo total; otra hoja con la informacion adicional (colores para la alfombra, el piso, etc.), y use unos dibujos con la configuracion de la casa para senalar donde van las luces extras por las que pagamos, los abanicos y las conexiones para la television :-). Mi respuesta: "Pero eso hizo tu cita mas facil y rapida no? Aja, eso es lo que pense :-) Te amo"... Si, me siento orgullosa de estar preparada :-D
LIGHT FIXTURES
LAMPARAS
We're getting this basic fixtures for bathrooms sinks.
UPDATE
Posted by Pilar at 6:07 PM 0 comments
Labels: Actual things, Cabinets, Carpet, Flooring, Hardware, Lamps, Selection Studio, Stove