NAFASI THE BLOG

In the following months, new furniture was arriving in the house every week! How fun! Patrick would come home every day wondering what he'd find. I was drawing up designs with different carpenters, and essentially testing out who I would like to continue working with through NAFASI as a business for future clients as well! I found some great people to work with, and of course some hiccups along the way too... You saw my pretty apothecary being made on last week's blog . They delivered it without finishing, as I requested, and just leveled everything out and added my apothecary pulls. I was thrilled with how it turned out!!  Then I shopped around for the best wood stains, and tried a few out. This stain is great, and I think it turned out really beautifully, but it was a hugeeeee pain to work with. It stains everything. EVERYTHING immediately. Including my hands and nails for 2 weeks. :/ My own fault for not using gloves. But that's pretty difficult to do to...

Look at that dog loving her fresh new floor! While Nami would have loved to keep the house empty as a doggy-gym to run around in, Patrick and I had other plans! We didn't have much, but we had our new sectional finished!! I had started design and production on it early, knowing that that would be the most important thing functionally to live in the house for a while. Then keeping the original design  in mind- yet still allowing for inevitable surprises, I moved quickly to get all the furniture and smaller details into place! You can see the banquet benches in blue leather and the dining table are added next. Eating from the couch every night gets old. 😂 You know I love a good apothecary! They're great for storage and also so beautiful. This one will be going in our entryway once it gets finished!  We set up our bed and added our bedding from Rubengera for now. I also made Nami a little princess bed of her own!  One piece of the design...

So once the cabinets arrived, the kitchen started to come alive! However one small annoyance, was I wanted to move the plumbing to be centered under the window. The way the kitchen used to be, the sink was to the left of the window, and when you tried opening the window on the left side, it would hit the faucet. So I planned to center everything. This just took forever. I think there was stalling because no one else but me wanted to do it, or thought it was necessary. ;) And then once the pipes were moved, we built a huge cement farmhouse sink around it. So that just means that the right side cabinets just had to sit in the middle for a while instead of being pushed into place. Here's that whole fiasco! First- the old kitchen arrangement: The new kitchen with cabinets patiently waiting to be pushed into place. ;) Digging a hole through the outside of the house to move the pipes and center the plumbing. The outside of the house did sacrifice here for that centered f...