finishing rooms

well the house is mostly livable now! yesterday we spent a good chuck of time at our new favorite store, storables, and picked out a complicated set of metro wire shelving to install in the upstairs office-slash-guestroom.

unfortunately, our timing to shop was pretty terrible -- the store is in the "U-Village" which is essentially a nice little shopping plaza in the heart of the U-Dub campus...

(aka the university of washington)

(we're going to have to become huskies fans if we stay here much longer)

to get home - we have to drive on a street that runs through the thick of campus -- and RIGHT PAST THE U-DUB FOOTBALL STADIUM.

yesterday, the huskies were playing USC. at home. the game ended right around 3:30. we finished shopping, oh, right around 3:45. perfect timing. they closed our main arterial road to home and we had to re-route ourselves in a GIANT circle east, north, west, then south of where we needed to go to get home.

an hour later... what should have been a 10 minute trip was finally complete. sigh. stupid us. i guess you need to do that once to learn the rule: never drive to u-dub on football saturdays.

but the office looks great! we have plenty of room for all our stuff -- conor's recording equipment & guitars, my sewing stuff, our craft stuff, his baseball card collection, plus a desk for me to make a little office for my computer, printer, and filing cabinent/bills/paperwork.

and, we still have room for our awesome new sleeper sofa. we went top of the line with this baby, so that our moms will have a comfortable place to rest when they come help us with the new kiddo... it's not your standard sleeper. it's a queen size, with a special mechanical setup that gives you a cushy, flat mattress -- not those paper-thin kind that just in half. pimpin'.

topped the night off by hanging the last of our art.

now the only thing left to do is the pez wall display!