Day 383 - Hurry up and WAIT

Patience is a virtue, more so in construction than in ANYTHING else.  We are patiently awaiting the countertops which are due to arrive on Friday.  In the meantime we did a few more things ourselves to help save money.  This weekend we hung up our new ceiling mounted range hood....

Now we are really ready to cook.  We hooked up the range and did a few odds and end things.
  Tilo installed his NEW TV...this was the one thing he wanted out of all of this a big TV with surround sound speakers through out the house!!!!

We are sooo looking forward to movie night with an honest to goodness sofa that we can curl up on!
We also had our entry door cabinet installed. We will use this to store cell phones, car keys and shoes.  There is also a piece of countertop that will go on top to tie it into the kitchen...

 

And we have been busy with making choices, like area rugs/carpets and even our glass kitchen backsplash.  The dark grey at the bottom is our concrete countertop color and the light yellowish color at teh top right is what we are thinking about for the backsplash - an entire wall of glass.  YES glass..it is so much easier to wipe down adn keep clean than the 1000 grout lines of a glass mosaics.  We'll see...

 

The silvery color is a jute we like for our bedroom. The larger upper brownish-grey swatch is possibly for the kitchen area.  Or we are going to go totally crazy in that area - super modern and bright nad pick some floor squares from FLOR (which are amazingly affordable) and do something like this....

Go totally outside of the box. It is getting fun now - decorations, furniture, personal touches...the process seems unfair though.  Why do we have to wait until the end when we are exhausted, out of money, time and patience to strat the fun stuff??