Everything but the kitchen sink

Lighting Inspiration

Schoolhouse Electric has some awesome light fixtures.  Inspiration for the spot below the stairs.  

 

Orange Change

This has been a fun filled month of change.  As a result posting wasn't high on my list of to dos.  This is what my list really looked like this month. 

1.  Get laid off.

2.  Figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. 

3.  Look for work. 

4.  Look for work.

5.  Look for work.

You get the idea.  I've settled down into a nice schedule now - which involves getting up at 8 (which is when one should really get up, any earlier is inhuman), cooking a lot, working out, and spending hours on my computer researching jobs, applying for jobs, and working on wedding invites.   I have to say working at your desk is a nice thing, for one there's fresh air and secondly, working in pjs isn't a bad thing.   Recently we decided to get proper chairs for the sunroom/office.   

They are orange.  They are super comfortable and they make me happy.   And naturally a good deal for our laid off butts.

Chairs

I love this chair from Anthropologie - it's half off now.

Hi!

Yes, I've been missing for a while. There are a number of things going on that have been keeping us at Chalet New York quite busy.   Exciting news includes getting counters in soon - we're actually getting measured for them this week.  The counters we decided to go with are called Ice Stone - it's a mix of recycled glass and concrete.  It's a more environmentally friendly than just plaine concrete with the benefit of some texture to it. 

 

So it won't quite look like our inspiration kitchen with the grey counters but it will look very cool.  Can't wait. 

Oh yes.

Who knew a refrigerator would bring so much joy. 

What you see here is our brand new fridge that took SIX weeks to arrive.  On the side of it is our cabinets we bought off of ebay.  On top are the temporary counters we got from home depot to allow us to cook.  And of course our beautiful floors.  On the side of the fridge, we are considering getting a pull out cabinet from IKEA that will hold all the canned goods.   On the fridge are clog magnets that were purchased in Amsterdam naturally.   

When do you want to come over for an awesome meal?

Spring!

The peach tree blossoms are out in our front yard.  They make me happy!

Dresser

Here's the new dresser in our bedroom.  Soon the air conditioner and light will be moved.  Thinking about putting a console table closeby for make up and jewelry - you know a girly table. 

Jewels

when the downstairs is done, I'd like to set up a little area in the bedroom to put jewerly.  I love these knobs from Hygge and West

 

Shed this

So I didn't get a chance to cook this weekend, it probably won't happen until the fridge comes (fingers crossed the end of the week, it's now been 2 1/2 weeks since I ordered it because apparently it is being "made").  But we made a lot of progress in getting rid of the junk from the backyard and hanging an old door that our friend gave to us (thanks B!).   The shed in the back had been filled with junk from the former owner.  It's taken us 1 1/2 years to go through it and finally sort out what we want to keep.  There were a few good finds in there, apparently I have been an owner of 5 shovels for the past couple years.  Who knew?  There's no dirt to shovel, but who cares!   Also found a large piece of astro turf!  Wow....that's really all that can be said there.  That was left out for trash the other day.  I kept hoping some frat boy would pick it up and intall it on his fire escape, but then I remembered there's a dirth of frat boys in greenpoint. 

It was a huge relief to get all this stuff out of the shed and sorted.  We have a lot to take to the green building place in Long Island City on Saturday.  Shed is now clear enough for  us to get stuff out from the house (gardening supplies, etc) and gives us more room to actually start bringing stuff downstairs to the kitchen.  

So as you can see the yard is a big concrete pit, we're hoping to have enough motivation to stucco over the cinder blocks this summer to create a more inviting space.  That and some seating and plants and it will look a lot different. 

As I mentioned above we also got a really cool door for our bathroom from a friend.  It clearly needs stripping - we'll do that sometime, probably when I get fed up with the pink.  For the time being it creates much needed privacy between kitchen and bathroom as well as a sound barrier for washer/dryer. This is view from the inside of the bathroom.

And a view from the kitchen.  Two colors!

Our next goals, get the inside of the cupboards lined in cork, so we can start bringing some of our cooking stuff down, then we need to sort out counters and shelving.

The last week

It's been about a week since my last update, but there's lots to show you.  First of all, our washer and dryer came last weekend and it was installed on Wednesday and I promptly did three loads of laundry.  It feels a bit decadent to have them living in NYC.  So here are some pictures - and no my photography skills haven't gotten any better. 

 

The washer and dryer stick out a bit over the door but really not enough to bug me.  We were limited on space and got the smallest front loading with decent capacity to go go there.  This is a MILLION times better than what the room used to look like.  Remember this? 

  

Yeah, it makes me feel ill too!   So we still need to get a door for the bathoom, put covers on the top hats and eventually, down the road do some back splash around the sink, that'll happen far, far from now. 

In other news, the SINK IS IN!  This is very exciting, it took a lot of work to get it in good enough shape to use, something I've documented and will post once everything is done - I still need to line the drawers with cork.  Eventually we'll have to get some backsplash for this too, but the goal is to get the kitchen up and running.  

 

Seriously, I need to figure out my new camera. 

More to come tomorrow, a lot of stuff done outside - pruning and getting ready for spring.  I also planted all my herbs.  The goal this week is to COOK.  omg.