Rainy Saturday

It's another rainy Saturday. The whole island seems to be blanketed by heavy rain clouds and we're really getting pelted by waves of heavy downpour.





The kids, however, are taking it in stride running around outside and enjoying getting wet. I took this photo from our 2nd floor.


It was a good day to stay inside and work on putting up our roller shades.


This is what it looks like close up. We're pretty pleased with it. I think the Home Depot salesperson still didn't get it quite right. She insisted we needed to get the roller to roll on the inside but we've noticed that it brings the shade too close to the glass and handles. However, at this point, we give up. We'll just be content with this and HOPE we never have to order anything complicated again! It looks better than the construction kraft paper we had hanging over the windows for 2 years.

Home Renovation: Doors and Windows

It'll take a few years to get our house completed after having our contractor, Mike Chun build the outside for us on top of my mother's house. Mike worked with us to get our ideas for the house started. Now it's Art's (and my) turn to finish the inside of the house. It's a constant learning process.



Art finished most of the doors. He just has two more to figure out because they are non-standard doors. He managed to get these doors hung after having to reorder them two or three times from Home Depot because they got the louver direction wrong. Sigh. The first time we ordered them, the container they came in actually burned along with our doors.



We had kraft paper curtains covering the windows to shield our furniture and floors from the harsh Hawaiian sun.



Here's Art putting up the roller blinds in my office. I'm liking the fact that the blinds are semi opaque so it lets in some light. I was happy to see that the blinds arrived early after we had them re-ordered because they sent us the order incorrectly. We wanted corded and they sent spring loaded.



Here's how they look! We stopped because it was dinner time.


Here's the next project for tomorrow. Our bedroom.

Special Orders, Special Troubles

I've been noticing some blogger friends are having, just like Alexander in Judith Viorst's book, rather a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

My day had a downer as well. The vertical blinds we special ordered finally arrived from Home Depot. We'd ordered roller shades also. The roller shades came a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, they were spring loaded and not loop corded like we asked. We had to reorder them. It takes 6-8 weeks to arrive in Hawaii. Sigh.

Now the verticals. We asked for an outside mount. Yup. It's an outside mount. But when Art put them up to look at them, he saw that the measurements they used was for an inside mount so they're TOO SHORT. Arghhhh! We went down earlier to Home Depot because they'd also forgotten to include some brackets in the shipment. NOW everything will have to be reordered. Special orders are a special headache!

The doors that we special ordered a few months ago also had to be reordered twice because of a mistake. Sigh........ sigh... sigh... Home Depot is very good about getting things reordered for you but it's frustrating to have to do it over and over again.

However, this evening two of my elementary school buddies picked me up and we went out for a bite to eat. So I'm cheerful again. Unfortunately, I had two glasses of ice tea and the caffeine is keeping me up. Sheesh! Ah well... there's nothing like being with your friends to perk you up 100%

Let me modify that a bit. It perked me up 99.9%. I'll feel 100% when our orders arrive correctly.