So we are now twenty weeks into our BIG remodel project on the house and although things have slowed down, we are not done yet.

This past week we had some 'remodel' stuff done, but mostly this was a week where NEW things were being added to the interior of the house.

On Monday, I picked up our new barstools that we special ordered to coordinate with the overall color scheme of the kitchen and tv room. Gary and I were not sure what they would look like as we picked out the metal finish, seat fabric and wood accent at the store, but never saw what it was going to look like together until Monday when I picked them up. They look great!

I had a friend of mine in the chorus, Pete Goddard, build us a cabinet for our new television to sit upon. We worked on the design together and he built the cabinet out of cherry and matched the stain perfectly to our kitchen. I picked up the 1st piece of the cabinet on Monday after rehearsal and then Pete came over on Wednesday afternoon and delivered the rest and put it all together.

This week we also had our new leather sofa and chair delivered for the tv room. So we spent Saturday morning setting up the room. After having the TV sitting in the box for the last 6 weeks, we finally unpacked it and hooked it up with the TiVo and DVD/VCR player. Before Gary had to leave for a business dinner, we also set up the Provo signs above the tv and the room is finally home again. The dogs were also very happy to have our tv room back, so they have a place to sit downstairs.

While Gary was away on Saturday, I went down to the BOSE store and bought the new Lifestyle 48 media center. I haven't set it up yet as we are probably going to have our good friend, Pete Last, come back and help us set this whole thing up. He has done all of the phone and internet connection works for us these past few years and we are excited to have him help us on this as we have NO IDEA what we are doing.

This coming week we are expecting to have our new Leaf Guard gutters installed along with having our new read sliders delivered. Ideal Building will be here one or two days to coordinate the installation of the gutters and sliders. I expect that they will also continue with the clean up as each week passes we get a little closer to the end...