
Ikea calls them " Billy". Bookshelves. We picked up a boatload of them last week, and Pete is putting them in place, beteen the carefully dimensioned and crafted walls so they'll fit like a glove. The beech wood color is the perfect foil for the flowering herbs wall color. What's that on the shelves you're wondering? Those tubular things? That's the glue for the wood flooring that's also going down tomorrow and Saturday.
We are entering our last week of construction craziness. On Monday and Tuesday, Ray the Plumber will be coming to install the showers, sinks, and faucets in both bathrooms, along with the water heater. If the plastic laminated arrives on Tuesday the way it's supposed to, Ray puts in the kitchen sink on Wednesday. (What are the chances, right?) We'll see....
Tom Le the flooring guy is supposed to come Friday, maybe Thursday and Friday both, to put the last two coats on the oak floor. Then we start moving in over next weekend, November 1 and 2. Whew; it's going to be down to the wire totally on everything. There will definitely be some stuff undone, that we'll just have to get to as soon as we can. (As if we will still have all the energy; this has been exhausting and stressful, but we need to keep the momentum up.)
Can't wait to sleep in a house that's finally warm for goodness sake.