It's been so long! At this point today, our whole house is almost TOTALLY done!! I need to catch you all up quick! With all the work on the house, and trying to plan the wedding all before coming to the US in a week, I have not been keeping up wit the blog updates! So here goes. Let's start with the stools. It all started a looooong time ago when I went to the fabric store for the first time. (I blogged about it here .) I saw this stool there, and it was metal. I don't know why I was stuck thinking stools had to be wood here. But they're metal all the time back home! When I realized I could get creative with my stools, I did some internet searching and asked Patrick (from the maintenance team, my second favorite Patrick!) if it would be possible to make some stools in a new modern shape. He called the welder... and it turned out to be possible! While it turned out not to be easy by any means, it was possible to get close to what I was looking for. I l...