Monday, June 18, 2012

Bars, weather events & fake cows

How simple it is to post when you can marvel at the work that others do.  Now we actually have to get off our butts and unpack boxes.

It's... so...  hard... 

Therefore progress is very little.  But, for the things that do not depend on us, some progress has been made.  


To the Bar!
With the addition of stools, our island is now officially a bar.  We really love the look of the Emeco Navy stools, but with a price tag of $700 each, not gonna happen.  So, off to find the best "interpretation."  We settled on the Delta stool from Crate and Barrel which is a FINE alternative at svelte $139 - also figuring in the 10% off coupon & gift card I purchased for under the value both on Ebay.  Since the stools, we haven't eaten at our dining room table once.  

The Emeco Navy Stools were used in our inspiration kitchen, these Crate and Barrel Deltas inspire us plenty.

Gutters
I have never seen so much water in my life.  With each major weather event, we watch our top soil get carried away.  We needed gutters installed ASAP, so we checked with a couple of seamless gutter companies on Angie's List.  We ended up going with Gutter Systems in Minneapolis.  Bruce quoted the entire project for 1/3 the price of the competition and his reviews were outstanding.  We ended up getting gutter helmets, too.  They are Hallett Gutter Guards and seem perform very well... of course we know because of the aforementioned major weather events.  If you want a chuckle, view Hallett's customer testimonial video.  It rocks. 

Without a downspout color match to our future paint color, we went with a match to our soffits and trim.  Picture an obscuring tree/bush in front of these conspicuous buggers.

Garage Door
Today the garage door appeared!  There is still some hardware that needs to be installed on the outside, so it will look a little bit sharper.  It's a Midland Garage Door installed by Twin Cities Garage Door.  

The playhouse and the fireplace will not actually stay in front of the garage door... hopefully in the next few weeks, we'll have a patio and a yard!
Within a Mile
Saint Anthony Park is about a 5 minute drive to downtown Minneapolis.  Pretty darn accessible, if you ask me.  We went for a walk through the St. Paul (Ag) Campus of the University of Minnesota tonight which is about 3 blocks from the house.  We walked around the campus and visited the cow barns.  It is INSANE that this is all so close to downtown!  To top it all off, there is nobody on this beautiful campus!  
Our new neighbors.

Why would we ever need a lawn?


Lucy making friends with giant, fake cows.  

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