View of the mountains from the balcony/front of the house. (will post later a pic of the front of the house - the other picture is on my old computer)
Not so pretty cacti that house birds and live right over the side of our fence. The birds are nice, except for they are the ones put those holes in the cacti.
The cute chandelier that hangs over Sief's and my bed. Eventually it may get painted a cream or antique white, but mom and I didn't have time for that when moving in. Let me tell you this chandelier taught mom and I a very important lesson. We hung the light fixture ourselves, because the bedroom didn't come with anything. Ok, no big deal, right?! This shouldn't be that hard to do. Well....there were 3 wires coming from the ceiling - red, white, and black and 3 wires coming from the chandelier - green, white, and black. so.....we figured white connects to white, black connects to black, and.... the colors must go together. Well, lets just say a few days after we hung the chandelier and finally had light bulbs in it - we flipped the switch and POP! I was in the bathroom at the time and thought a light bulb had exploded! Well, not exactly - the pop came from up at the ceiling where we had wired the light and...we flipped the circuit and the entire master bedroom went dark. Soooo.....my mom uttered a few potty words and we tried to call an electrician to see if we made a really really bad boo boo.
Finally, I said lets call Uncle Doug (my electrician uncle). He said to check the wires and call him back. I told him what we did and he laughed at us - he said "green is ground all the world around." So... apparently color does not go to color. There was a ground wire, but we didn't see it because it was super small and painted over. I rewired the chandelier and then we flipped the switch...nothing. I rechecked the other connections and the white wire had been cut - so fixed that and....perfecto - there was light. Lesson learned - green=ground!
Let's just say that was probably the worst of our lighting experiences, but we had other failures with fixtures in other rooms of the condo, but....you don't want the details of that. Let's just say in terms of our electricity skills it was a long week.
Laundry room shelf with homemade laundry detergent and cute dryer sheet holder. There were some issues with the shelf - stripped a screw, but we fixed it. Carpentresses are we. haha
So far the homemade laundry soap is working good.
The office and my favorite part of the house - my FUN yellow chair, which is more comfortable to sit in than it looks. You can also see Penny's new bed under the desk.
Over our kitchen table 2 picture shelves! Still looking for little goodies to go on there.
Another view of the mountains.
Our new gigantic couch. Sief's preference. Super comfy though and that's an ottoman covered by my pink/purple quilt. At least we have plenty of room for people to sit when they come visit. Or an extra place to crash if visitors have a little too much to drink.
Front yard full of rocks and can you see the 2 small patches of green? Those little green patches are Penny's plants. I had to plant her some plants, because she looked so sad out front without anything to smell. Eventually these are supposed to grow into big bushes with really pretty red and orange flowers.
Could I have a blog post without a picture of Penny?
The new kitchen! and.....the most important piece of the kitchen pictured below! Ta Da!!!
One more view of the mountains!
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