Building Our Strauss Townhome: A Little More Progress

Monday, June 1, 2015

A Little More Progress

We got a little more work done on the house this week and a lot more shopping. :)

Earlier in the week my husband mounted our TV in the living room. We got a full motion mount so we can watch TV from the living room or the kitchen. So far we like it but we don't have table for underneath the TV yet.

Watching TV from the kitchen

During the week, I sealed the grout on our backsplash and sealed the granite in the kitchen. We also sealed the grout and granite in the master bathroom. It took way longer than expected, so we didn't get to the grout in our hall bath yet.

After the kitchen was all sealed, I finished putting everything away and setting up. It's an amazing kitchen and we're really happy with it. Now we just need to get our stools!

On Saturday we took a break from housework and met up with some friends for lunch. Although we are loving our house, it was great to get out and get our minds off of our never-ending to-do list. When we were out we happened to stop in Homegoods with my friend and found the perfect area rug for our morning room. It was less than $300 so we were sold on it! It ended up looking great too!

Saturday night we tried to set up the ceiling fan in our master bedroom but the fan we bought doesn't have the bracket and canopy screws lined up correctly. We couldn't finish the install because of that and I'll be calling their customer service line tonight to see if there's anything we can do. If not we'll have to take the fan down, return it, and pick a new one.

On a happier note Sunday we got the fan up in our office. We also rearranged the furniture so it's pretty much all together just finding places to put all of our little stuff.

The office all set up
(excuse the mess)

We also did a ton of shopping this weekend. We bought curtain rods. Although we didn't find curtains we liked, the rods were on sale so we picked them up. Then we ordered our bedding set for the master, our kitchen counter and bar stools, a cabinet for the TV stuff in the living room, and a mattress for the master. Here's a sneak peak at some of our purchases. Can't wait for everything to arrive.