Boxes boxes everywhere

This is where we stand on August 16th, 2009. We've been back in our house for about a week and change, and we still have a ton o' crap to unpack. Below is the entry way/foyer. as you can see it's still full of boxes. Many of these things were either knick-knackery from the old living room that we can't unpack yet or things for the den/media room that is all tored up at the moment.

The next phase is assemilating all the stuff from our house into the new space. We did a really good job in the kitchen, but the rest of the areas are problematic, as you will see.

Here's M in our new Kitchen putting things away in one of our many new spacious drawers. I love that none of my appliances show as they're all in the 2 appliance garages.

Here's the 2nd stack o' stuff. Much of it is records that will go in the media storage units, more on them in a bit. There's a side table in front ot the window with boxes on it, that was down in the den, but we're going to redo the floor down there, so it will remain upstairs for now. The fireplace is STILL unfinished, the slate is on backorder and is supposed to be here this week, but Alan wasn't for certain on the actual date of it's arrival. You'd think it could have been mined, finished and transported by burrow by now! It's going to be lovely whenever it gets finished, however.

Here's those IKEA Media units (KUBIST if you are an IKEA fetish-ist), the new speakers and audio distrobution system (Aton is the brand name, and no, I'd never heard of them either) terminates behind the stereo shelf. One of the speaker sets was working intermittantly due to a wiring issue, but Alan fixed them and we've been enjoying them daily. I haven't even hooked up the Bose speakers yet! It's great being able to hear 'All Things Considered' or 'Prarie Home Companion' while cooking dinner. I will camoflage the wiring behind the stereo equipment when we get a bit farther along.

Here's the temporary dining room. Temporary, because we learned last week that our new table will be delivered on Tuesday. We're going to put the table on Craigslist. We're sad to see it go, a lot of good times have been had around that table, as well as a lot of great food! If your interested, it's made of hard-rock Vermont maple, and M is selling the table, the 4 chairs and all of our round tablecloths for $495 o.b.o. It'll hit Craigslist tonight.

Man, we have so much to do.

See the next post about what we did this weekend.

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