patience is a ______

someecards always know how to say exactly what I'm thinking

My dad said it perfectly, "first comes love, then comes a lot of waiting". So that's what we're doing, We're waiting. We're STILL waiting on the foundation people. Yesterday (Tuesday) we received this update from our contractor: "He (foundation dude)just called and asked me to meet him at the house in the morning (weds) with the paperwork he needs to get started. Sorry its taking a while, but this guy is the best at structural work and its the most important part." how can you argue with that? On one hand, great I like people that are the best at their jobs but on the other hand, come on, man! We didn't make it over to the house today but are hoping to get over there bright and early tomorrow to check on the progress! Let's hope the basement is being dug out another few feet! *fingers crossed* 

In our construction/blogging downtime RC and I decided to start being proactive and start researching and pricing cabinets/granite/etc.  We previously went to Home Depot where they gave us a 3D design of the kitchen and prices for both granite and cabinets. Then just this last weekend we went to a granite outlet store out "in the county". We found this place from a recommendation of a friend. She re-did her kitchen with this place and it looks amazing! She also did a lot of shopping around as well so it's good to know these guys were on the low end of her options as well. The place is called, "The Granite Outlet"...to the point! We met with a designer but since it was Saturday and a busy day they don't do the designs on the spot, we just had to give her all of our must-haves and she'll come back to us with designs. 

Now here is where it gets tricky, RC and I don't necessarily see eye to eye on most design ideas. We have two different schools of thought on what your kitchen and house should look like. If he had it his way our house would look like this:



how are these chairs even comfortable?!




nothing says inviting like a glass table with sharp edges

  

It's just one water bed and fur rug short of being the stereotypical bachelor pad. If I had it my way our house would look like this:



did you just get goosebumps too?! just me?



don't you want to just take a nap here? maybe a little?

sigh. it's amazing.

Aaaahhhh compromising, what a bitch. You see, RC likes more modern looks. Clean, straight lines, dark colors and shiney. I like rustic-chic, round edges, light colors and the worn look. That translates to cabinet preferences like this: RC likes dark cabinets and I like White-ish cabinets. PROBLEMO.  We currently have dark brown cabinets in our apartment and they're REALLY nice but our apartment is also very open and we have a humongous window and not to mention light floors. In our house it's going to be narrow and we won't have a ton of windows and are hoping for dark floors. Even though I really love the dark cabinet look I am trying to think of them in our future space and how practical it would be.

 I'm being subtle so I'll just say it,  I am campaigning for White-ish cabinets. I don't want stark white, I want antique white and I have a very good case behind it-they look bright, airy, fresh, never goes out of style, iamalwaysright, it's happy, warm, welcoming and we've had dark brown for 2+ years. RC hasn't come up with anything besides- "I like it and you're crazy" as his reasons for wanting dark brown cabinets in the  kitchen. Calling me crazy isn't helping his case AT ALL.

We still haven't decided what color (white) but once we see the designs the designer comes up with (she is coloring up both styles/colors)  I'll show you and we'll lean on you to decide (choose the white if you know whats good for you).