by Allegra Osati | Mar 5, 2014 | Life
Our renovation is coming along, and I’m happy to announce that we’re ready for action… with our registry, that is! We went to Crate and Barrel recently to set it up, and we were like kids in a candy shop. It’s so exciting to see everything come...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 27, 2014 | Life
As we head into a very rainy weekend in SoCal, we get a nice text from our contractor with the picture above. When we visited the house last night to drop off some stuff for the bathrooms, the cabinets were all put together but not yet installed. As of about an hour...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 26, 2014 | Life
It feels like everything has been delayed at least once. This time, it’s the renovation – again. Sure, it’s only until “Monday,” as they say, but they promised (even up until this past Monday!) that we would be done by the first of...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 17, 2014 | Life
I’m posting twice in a day because things change quickly. I recently received yet another call – automated, this time, from Temco – to tell me that our appliances would be delivered tomorrow. Thinking this might be in error because of the...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 17, 2014 | Life
Life lesson learned. We went to Home Depot a while ago and put in an order for a Whirlpool dishwasher and a GE range. We put them on the same order and were told that they could be delivered to the condo tomorrow – February 18th. The appliances would come from...
by Allegra Osati | Feb 12, 2014 | Life
February 8th: Day 4 The ceiling is scraped and the walls are being painted! But we didn’t know that they had started to paint, so we didn’t get a chance to tell them which walls we would like to be the accent walls. The colors we chose are Cracked Pepper...
