New bath accessories

We had our house warming this weekend. In order to properly host we felt we should put up the common bath accessories in the main bath so we could have toilet paper and towels available to people. We have these hung in our bathroom now.

Towel

Hand Towel

Toilet Paper Holder
I also learned that behind the drywall in our bathroom is a concrete wall. And it's very hard to screw into a concrete wall.

The wire and the tube

We've had an electrician over at the house to fix all the things that showed up in the inspection report. The main parts of it were a new electrical panel outside and turning all the outlets that need to be GFCI (bath, kitchen, outside) to GFCI. Nothing to take photos of, but important stuff that makes sure we're safe and that the house doesn't burn down.

Electric and plumbing are the two things in the house that I won't touch because of the high amount of knowledge needed to do either correctly and the high amount of risk involved if you do it wrong.

The plumber is coming over this afternoon to check out a leaky pipe and to add a pressure regulator.

Replace pendant lamp in breakfast nook

We spent our first night in the house last night and we've been unpacking the past two days. Things are starting to fall into place. I'll start posting photos once there aren't random boxes all over the place.

The first item on the to do list worth taking a photo of has been done. I replaced the very small, glass pendant lamp in the breakfast nook with our large, black, metal pendant. I kind of cheated because I used the old electrical line instead of replacing it with the one that came with the new lamp. But Rachel and I decided the old line looked better because the grey matches the silver lights that are in the other half of the nook.

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After:

Got the keys

All the ink of the signatures, initials and dates have dried on the thousands of papers it takes to buy a house. That might be an exaggeration, but that's what it feels like.

We have the keys and have already moved a few boxes over.

We had our first dinner at the new place. Sadly it was fast food, but we did eat it on the front patio where we waved to one of our new neighbors as he rode by on his bike.

We definitely saw a few more things to add to the to do list; it's weird the things you notice only when there's no furniture in the house (or when the furniture that's hiding things is moved).

But we still love the place and can't wait to move all our stuff over. Now we just have to pack it.

Our house in the '90s

Here's what our house looked like in the '90s. I'm guessing this photo was taken sometime in 1993 because that's when the previous owner purchased it.