Power post, Hey-yo!

As temperatures begin to warm, replacing the cold spring chill in the air we continue to chip away at the renos--inside and out.

Once the floors were done and we discovered our much-coveted wine fridge was about 1/4 inch too tall for the opening *&*%%###!
I talked to Home Hardware plus the guy who installed our kitchen and we were able to work out a deal. Adrian, our installer had been looking for a wine fridge so he bought ours for what we paid for it and we found this one. Things worked out well. It's a dual-zone fridge so good for whites and reds and it fits very nicely under the counter so we're very happy. Too bad it's kinda empty right now :(

Our loveseat was delivered a couple weeks ago and we had our cable connected. We also spent about two hours trying to hang our TV onto the stand we'd fixed to the wall earlier. We though it would be a snap as the hardest part - hanging the stand - was done. It was hanging crooked and we couldn't seem to fix it and were resigned to taking the entire stand off or somehow propping up the TV so it would be level. In desperation I moved the swivle part of the stand to the other side and, voila! T'was straight!
I was feeling quite insignificant until we heard from a neighbour they spent several hours doing the exact same thing except they had three people working on it, and then Neal told me he had the same problem with getting it level until he moved the swivel in the other direction like I did.
So, long story short, manhood, for the most part, remains in tact.
Oh, yeah, the loveseat and cushions look great, don't they?

With the living room area somewhat intact and liveable (Sarah swears she'll never watch TV downstairs again ) we tackled installing closet organizers. Not too bad but not easy either. I tried to drill into the drywall but lucky me, I somehow managed to drill dead centre into one of the drywall screws so we were forced to move the shelf and try again. :/
The most difficult part was using a hacksaw to cut the shelving. The payoff: we were able to hang nearly all of our clothes in the closet. We also finished the shelves in the other rooms, one of which nearly sent me into the asylum, not kidding. Sarah pinch hit for me and got the job done.
If you'll excuse Sarah's clothes sitting on the floor here's a closet shot of the almost complete project:

And speaking of hanging, we no longer have to sneak around our bedroom if we're in our birthday suits or getting changed because we got our curtains hung. Again, this wasn't an easy endeavour. After spending the better part of an hour marking and drilling holes to hang the curtain rod, we removed the curtains from the box to discover we'd purchased only one. Sooo, we zipped to the store, bought two curtains we like better and brought 'em home. But these were considerably shorter in length so now we had to spend another couple hours removing, and installing the curtain rod lower on the wall and leaving us with some nice little holes to fill.
What do you think of them?

Wait! There's more.

Our outside decor has also undergone some fairly extreme changes. I lopped off all the tall branches so they sit below the wires running to our house. In doing so, I probably saved us a hefty bill from the city's arborist.
Additionally, I was able to trim down the juniper trees in front of the house and then, with the help of our neighbour who took some pics and used photoshop to show us how the front of our house would appear we removed them. I was up at 7 the next day getting rid of them. So much nicer (see future posts for pics of this).
Today we worked on pulling all the weeds that had sprouted up in the backyard and I disassembled what was left of the gazebo to make way for a new one. I plan to spend tomorrow slopping a coat of primer on the wall I patched last week in preparation for the stair installation speaking of, we're still waiting for a call as to when he's going to start. We're excited about having the stairs and ralings because then we can invite our friends with children over and not have to worry about them getting too close to the edge and falling down the stairwell.
Look for another post very soon! The Trudeaus.