Saturday we spent all day shopping for house stuff. Thankfully, the girls were able to spend the day playing with cousin Ryler at Aunt Lindsey and Uncle Jared's house. They had a blast and we soooo appreciated the opportunity to do some shopping kid-free!
Our first stop was to look at shingles and doors. We settled on our shingles. Didn't see anything we liked for doors tho.
Next stop was to look at fireplaces, we also narrowed that down to 2 options. Then we swung into Lowe's for some tile I had seen that I liked so that we could use it as we shopped for tile to go with it. We enjoyed lunch at 5 Guys before we headed to Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Our list of what we needed to look at included: appliances, flooring (tile, carpet, wood floors), plumbing fixtures, lighting fixtures and tvs. We started with appliances, in which I was disappointed that I didn't see anything that I really loved for a stove or frig. Plus, they didn't have near the inventory I thought they would on hand, they could order it, but didn't have it there to see it. They also didn't carry the stove I saw at Lowe's and liked, nor able to order it. So we will do more shopping before we decide on appliances. We need all new appliances, including washer/dryer. I already have the washer/dryer picked out. We have a $3000 allowance from our builder, and will pay for the rest ourselves. I'm figuring it will be around $5000 for everything.
We moved on to TV's, we pretty much already know what we want...46" Sony Smart TV, and the salesman already confirmed what we thought, Sony is releasing their new inventory starting in April, and prices will be lower...so we will wait til closing gets closer to buy. We are putting it over the fireplace mantel.
Next we looked at tile, and didn't have any luck. It doesn't help that we have NO real vision for what we what in our master bathroom, nor for flooring in the mudroom and girls' bathroom. I do know what I want in the main bathroom tho! I will share that vision in a later post! We checked out their wood flooring and found only one possible candidate, then moved on to carpet. By this time, I had migraine coming on (I think from carrying around my heavy bag with tile and cabinet door samples!). We met with a lady who handles account for new builds and she ordered us a few samples. We skipped looking at the plumbing and lighting fixtures and left. We were only in the car 10 minutes before I starting throwing up from the migraine. Thankfully, I was able to take something for it and sleep it off for about 45 minutes at Lindsey's house before we made the rest of the trip home.
All in all, it was just a strange day! Ha! It started out great, but didn't end as grand, but we did feel we got some things accomplished, and if nothing else, eliminated!
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