I'm not really pleased with the work that was done. Ok, I take that back, what they did do, they did a good job with....but what they didn't do was 1. clean up after themselves 2. paint things we thought they agreed to paint. So that leaves us cleaning up a lot of dust and emptying our cupboards dish by dish and then putting it all back together. This may be a little less painful if we had a dishwasher. Or 10 children to wait on us hand and foot. I'm probably closer to talking Brian into the latter...well mostly because it involves.... (and he's 1/4 Amish).
We have finished with about 4 cupboards, which sounds pathetic but one of them was the huge bowls/mugs/plates cupboard. The stove and fridge are back in the kitchen. And I can actually walk in my home without hearing the word "HOARDERS" pop into my head!
Last week I was facebooking about all the painting I had to do. Painting went something like this. The contractor told me he hates painting and asked if we wanted to paint to take some $$ of our bill. I called Brian and asked him what he thought. He agreed. Then he went to Indiana for work. NIIICCEE. Thanks to great friends and my mom, they helped with Jackson while I spent 2 days painting and priming the ceiling and the walls. In Brian's defense, he did need to go to Indiana to do sales, and it was probably best he was there and didn't have to deal with my crazy self in the meantime. However, we still have the sunroom to paint. I couldn't move the cabinets out of it (that needed to be installed back in the kitchen) and didn't have time to paint it. We would not have had to paint the sunroom, but when we were having 100% new plumbing installed, the toilet pipe smashed into the wall and broke it. Waa waaa. So we got some new drywall in the sunroom as well. And then there was the crown molding (which also still needs painted). I'm not so happy that the contractors only installed standard 3" crown molding in the kitchen. The rest of our downstairs has 4". Their comment was that no one in Newark/Heath sells 4". Well too bad!! Find it!! They had over 2 weeks to deal with that. But they didn't. And since Brian was handling the phone conversations between us and the insurance and the contractor, and Brian's a really nice guy, we have 3" molding. And I'm dealin'.
In high school I played Miss Adelaide in our rendition of Guys and Dolls. Adelaide spends much of her life with a cold because her fiance, Nathan Detroit, won't marry her. This weekend I developed the cold of all colds. At first I thought it was from Jackson, but his was mild compared to this, and I think the culprit of his cold may be some new teeth. No, I think instead of the curse of kitchen hives, I got a cold instead. I feel like Miss Adelaide walking around the house-- Every time someone mentions our kitchen I sneeze.
Yesterday the contractor called and asked if he could come by and pick up the check. I said that was fine and he was here in a few minutes. I wanted to just berate him (in a Christian sort of way) about how I was pleased with their work, BUT he needs to be clear with his billing and customer service matters (and crown molding sizes). Instead, I made a joke about Jackson's pacifier and handed over the money. I'm just happy to have it over with (for now). I shut the door...and sneezed.
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