YEAR 5...no seriously we are into our second year!!

So the drama just gets better and better.  We have made a LOT of headway in unpacking boxes, getting organized, buying furniture BUT the house is still not complete.  Our countertop drama has turned into a FULL fledged tragedy!  We have had the installers out here 5 times now, the managers out here 2 times and have had the countertops be installed and de-installed a total of 3.5 times in the last 6 weeks!!!!

I had just about given up with no energy left to fight them and Tilo came riding in on a white horse to save us.  Seriously I went round and round with the company - first they made the wrong edges - a bevel instead of a modern square edge, second they installed the tops even when they knew the "waterfall" leg (the end that flows over the side of the cabinet and down to the floor) did not sit flush with the countertop laying on top of it.  it should have looked like one piece that turned down, third they came to correct that in place on site and RUINED that water fall leg and had to remove the whole thing to polish it in the shop, fourth they re-installed it and left an overhang of 3/4" on one side of the stove and left NO overhang on the other!!  the countertop did NOT hang over my doors!  They de-installed them again, took them to the shop, cut them and tried again.  On this fifth point they couldn't re-install them because someone polished the wrong end of the waterfall leg and now it no longer fit at ALL!  Sixth point, managers came out and tried to tell me it was MY fault...My peninsula is 32.5" wide on one end and only 32" on the other and that is MY fault???  Really??  I asked him what the templater did, why and if they would reprimand him and their response is "That is our internal issue to work through..it will be difficult to get this right".  No admission of fault, wrong-ness NA_DA. They actually went so far as to imply I had talked to the original templater, interrupting his work and MAKING him mess up!!!!

AS tilo met them on site the seventh time, they were SOOOOO apologetic, admitting everything was their fault, that they had messed this completely up and will make i right.  Tilo said he wanted to minimize the time spent on this, told them we could like with the 1/2" in width if they simply re cut the waterfall and then give us a discount!  AND they AGREED.  Just like that.  is it a male thing?  Women in construction thing? Seriously....

check us out through that process - on off on off on off now partially on until tomorrow afternoon!!!

We got our pantry organized with shoes..

Master Bathroom cabinet shell went in...

I was able to clean the downstairs and use the new bathroom!

 Then we spent several days doing "final touch ups" - little paint here, little tweaking there..

 And we unpacked about 70% of our boxes.  Cabinets were getting fuller by the day.  I did sort through stuff and prepared 6 boxes for the garage sale!!

Tilo's fancy free hanging stereo equipment shelves..

And then CHAOS hit yet again - countertops had to come back out the 3rd time...everything was simply placed everywhere AGAIN...seemed like a weekly routine for us..

 Now you see them, Now you DON'T...Urgh.....

Through it all, Ms. V sails through...locks herself up in her new decked out room and never asks a question as to WHY, HOW or WHAT??

The countertops are coming in for the FINAL time tomorrow afternoon.  I will post the pictures along with those of the rest of the house once I tuck things back in.  You will be amazed at how fast it has all come together.  Kitchen backsplash goes in Thursday, then we have a touch up or 2 on plaster, paint and floors (that the countertop people scratched) and we can start on the outside....YEAH.