that brown house

All those plans that assumed the electrician would be done on Friday and we would spend the weekend getting everything all cleaned up and ready to have stuff moved in? Yeah, that didn’t quite happen.

What did happen was getting another coat of paint on the bathroom walls, fixing up some of the paint edges that were kind of shaky before, taking the bathroom door down and sanding, patching it, and repainting it, putting the ceiling light back up, and getting the lights and mirror put up on the bathroom wall.

In kitchen news, we put the stove and refrigerator against the walls where they belong and got the cabinets pretty much cleaned up, so it finally feels more like a kitchen than a storage room. We finally put the vent pipe back on the stove and dared to turn the gas on, and fortunately it turns out to actually work!

The oven situation is not so fortunate. The pilot light stays lit, but no amount of fiddling with the controls will make it actually turn on. We also wonder if maybe there is another pilot light that we haven’t found, since there is the mysterious “heater” knob at the left that turns on the gas to something that never seems to light, so we played it safe and turned the gas back off until we can fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge.

We also did some patching and repainting on the baseboards and the laundry room walls where the cutouts for new electrical outlets and switches had messed up the paint.