Well, I was planning on dragging my boyfriend looking at window treatments this weekend, but that plan got left in the dust.
Thursday evening after laying down for a nap my boyfriend suggessted we take the dogs for a walk. He even had the dogs already in their harnesses. I'm still groggy when he says "I was thinking about taking the dogs for a walk, their already harnessed." I say okay and roll out of bed, change into some clothes better suited for walking the dogs since I was still in my clothes from work.
I head out to the kitchen area, grab some baggies just to be safe and he hands me a leash and says "why don't you put this on AJ". Now you have to understand something. AJ is our puppy Golden Retriever. Okay, not really a puppy but he sure thinks he is and acts like it. As soon as he sees the harness he starts jumping up and down, you don't have to ask if he wants to go for a walk. So as soon as I go over with the leash, I'm more or less attacked.
I get him settled enough and grab the harness, go to attach the leash to his harness there is a ring attached to the harness with some string. "Why is there a ring attached to..." and while I'm trying to think of why there is a ring attached to AJ's harness and finish my sentence, my boyfriend jumps in with "because I'm asking you to marry me."
I freeze. I mean I literally can't move. My brain can not process what just happened. I wonder if I heard him correctly. It's not until he says "don't forget about AJ" that I snap out of it and run to him. I start hugging and kissing him. Then finally realize I should give him an answer and say "yes".
So, we are reworking the budget and thinking about when we would want to be married, who we want to invite; needless to say, window treatments were far from my mind.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The quiet before the storm
Since we basically just paid for a new furnace and air conditioning to be installed our wallets are still recovering. In this time is when we do a lot of thinking, research, and planning.
We know we will need soil to amend the front garden since it is just sand. As far as how much and what the cost will be...we haven't really looked at since the time to plant has passed until the weather gets cooler.
Planning other projects though, like the bathroom, involves looking at other bathrooms and bathroom remodels so we get an idea of what can be done and what we need to do. Our bathroom is small so some of these remodels we've seen are sooo not happening. Where the people get a large rain shower, jacuzi tub, his and her sinks, and toilet. Oh and let's throw in a television in the mirror and speakers so you can listen to the radio all over the bathroom. Yeah, won't be happening here. But, a rain shower could happen, probably won't because we wash the dogs in the tub and having a shower head that can be a hand shower comes in handy.
We are looking into window treatments, but we just started so I don't have much to report on this. As mentioned in previous posts we are going with curtains for the Living Room, right now we are trying to focus on the other rooms though since they don't have anything right now though and the Living Room currently has some virtical blinds that were left behind. Blinds is the way we are leaning, the problem is not all the rooms are finished or we don't know exactly what we are doing in there. The Dining Room/Kitchen window we should be able to pick a color for since that area is done except for the window treatments...and a few minor glitches like the outlet by the dining table doesn't work yet. The back doorwall we know we will be getting french doors so we can lock and unlock the door from the outside. The office is in the planning stages so that is one where we still aren't sure. Spare Bedroom...couldn't even tell you what we are doing in there right now. Currently it serves as storage. Our bedroom...is kind of blah, so I'm hoping to find some time to go back and look at it since putting the room together was kind of rushed.
It is possible we will have purchased window treatments before my next posting, but I make no promises. I am hoping to get a good bit of money set aside so we can do a slew of projects basically. I liked the constant flow of projects when we were getting the house to a livable condition before we moved in and I miss the excitement of finishing a project and the push to get things done in an evening.
We know we will need soil to amend the front garden since it is just sand. As far as how much and what the cost will be...we haven't really looked at since the time to plant has passed until the weather gets cooler.
Planning other projects though, like the bathroom, involves looking at other bathrooms and bathroom remodels so we get an idea of what can be done and what we need to do. Our bathroom is small so some of these remodels we've seen are sooo not happening. Where the people get a large rain shower, jacuzi tub, his and her sinks, and toilet. Oh and let's throw in a television in the mirror and speakers so you can listen to the radio all over the bathroom. Yeah, won't be happening here. But, a rain shower could happen, probably won't because we wash the dogs in the tub and having a shower head that can be a hand shower comes in handy.
We are looking into window treatments, but we just started so I don't have much to report on this. As mentioned in previous posts we are going with curtains for the Living Room, right now we are trying to focus on the other rooms though since they don't have anything right now though and the Living Room currently has some virtical blinds that were left behind. Blinds is the way we are leaning, the problem is not all the rooms are finished or we don't know exactly what we are doing in there. The Dining Room/Kitchen window we should be able to pick a color for since that area is done except for the window treatments...and a few minor glitches like the outlet by the dining table doesn't work yet. The back doorwall we know we will be getting french doors so we can lock and unlock the door from the outside. The office is in the planning stages so that is one where we still aren't sure. Spare Bedroom...couldn't even tell you what we are doing in there right now. Currently it serves as storage. Our bedroom...is kind of blah, so I'm hoping to find some time to go back and look at it since putting the room together was kind of rushed.
It is possible we will have purchased window treatments before my next posting, but I make no promises. I am hoping to get a good bit of money set aside so we can do a slew of projects basically. I liked the constant flow of projects when we were getting the house to a livable condition before we moved in and I miss the excitement of finishing a project and the push to get things done in an evening.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Desiding on a Design for our Flower Bed
Playing around with doodles on graph paper may not be the most fun, but it does give a good idea of how each design will look. I haven't put plants in the designs yet but have come up with about 3 basic different designs and then expanded on two of them since I liked them but there was something still not right. In total I now have 6 different designs.
The first step in doing this was to figure out a scale for my drawings. I decided on one square equals one foot. I did this more due to the size of the paper and how many squares I had to deal with. The main flower bed I was playing with was the front one which is 33 feet long by 4 feet.
We took some walks around our neighborhood and looked at other peoples gardens and I learned my boyfriend likes what I refer to as the field look. This is where there are a bunch of large plants with smaller plants filling in the gaps and it looks like a wild field. A small wild field but a field.
Keeping this in mind I expanded the garden away from the house a little more than it already is so I could sneak in more plants and make it more like a field. Stay tuned to see what design we choose and how we put everything together.
The first step in doing this was to figure out a scale for my drawings. I decided on one square equals one foot. I did this more due to the size of the paper and how many squares I had to deal with. The main flower bed I was playing with was the front one which is 33 feet long by 4 feet.
We took some walks around our neighborhood and looked at other peoples gardens and I learned my boyfriend likes what I refer to as the field look. This is where there are a bunch of large plants with smaller plants filling in the gaps and it looks like a wild field. A small wild field but a field.
Keeping this in mind I expanded the garden away from the house a little more than it already is so I could sneak in more plants and make it more like a field. Stay tuned to see what design we choose and how we put everything together.
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