The boxes and boxes of books were exploded this weekend. All over the living space until there no space to just be. The mess created an even larger mess in the bedroom (who knows why). It was a true fiasco. It took some doing, but we finally have them all arranged in official Fiallen Form: by color, then by size within color. Even the books covered by the photos maintain this order.
Now we are just hoping that when we explode the remaining boxes of books in the bedroom we have enough shelf space for all of them to stay in the bedroom. The bedroom needs a lot (a lot a lot) of work. The front room, on the other hand, is basically done! We have to hang blinds, do some minor patch and paint from past tenants and hang our photos and art (which we have to do in all rooms!). I would probably be remiss if I didn’t include “cord management” which is Josh’s specialty. That still needs to happen too.
One fun thing we learned at the end of last week: the rain and wind storm on Thursday night/Friday morning let us know that our apartment leaks. But only in crazy storms. Because it has rained a lot this summer, but this is the first time it has leaked. Our skylight leaks on to our stairwell carpet. And then, after we had already started catching that, a huge puddle appeared on our new sideboard/mini bar/liquor cabinet with no wet ceiling above it. But it is just to the side of the skylight, so the wind must have caused a flexing in the skylight and flow of water aimed at the cabinet for a burst. It was crazy. Plus the framing above one of our bedroom windows was leaking. But our landlady was awesome and had a guy come check on it, and he his here today in the nice weather to fix the roof! AND he is going to fix the roof above our nasty looking beam and then repair the beam for us too! (One less thing on the to-do list for us then!)
