They are in town. They will be delivered between 10 and 2 tomorrow.
Kudos to Lowe’s, who has chased this matter for 3 weeks now, starting with the company’s squishy ship date, to the fact they were on the road, to the non-fact they were maybe in Spokane, but—Thanksgiving—and now, finally, our poor Lowe’s person, on her day off, managed to ascertain where they were, and get us set up for delivery asap.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow…
Use her name in a book as that of an honest and hard working staffer? Or just send candy and flowers?
Delighted to hear that your ship — make that Cabinets — has come in!
We are in the middle of remodeling our sole bathroom, or rather, we are at the holding stage towards the end of the demolition: toilet and tub remain, but no shower, sink, storage or solid walls. As a friend put it, being in our bathroom is like being at an old-fashioned summer camp: dark wood studs and beams (and cobwebs, dust, …).
Luckily, all of our replacement bits (tub, vanity, tile, toilet) have arrived… We are now awaiting the electrician to redo the wiring before having the plumber redo the plumbing and put in the tub, etc. Then will come the walls, tile, etc. It’s all a ways away.
Hope your time of waiting and dreaming is almost over!
Bad being without a kitchen, but one can generally make do with a microwave and hotplate or hotpot. There is no good substitute for indoor plumbing, especially a toilet 😀
Hooray! Glad the cabinets are finally (almost) to your door. We are having our deck redone with Trex to replace 16 year old treated lumber that was fried by the sun on the southwest side of the house. Today the crew started installing the railings on the deck and building the replacement steps. The joists were still good, so we had them tear out and replace all the decking, railings and steps. Really looking forward to the finished product.
Ah, Annie. CJ, I had never thought of you as a redhead before. Cabinets are good. Counter tops are even better. It is amazing how unsettled kitchen mayhem makes the whole home.
Yay!! There’s nothing that’s quite as disruptive, annoying and uncomfortable in a truly up close and personal way –as having your personal living space disrupted by being under construction, especially when it’s a really important area like a bathroom, kitchen or bedroom.
I once lived for more than a month with every sink in the house (kitchen and bathroom), and the dishwasher, out of commission, my bedroom with a bare concrete floor (the carpet/padding had been ripped out due to contamination with sewage!), and my bed disassembled and leaning against the wall. Thank goodness, the bathtub, shower and toilets were functional. I slept in a sleeping bag on an air mattress on my office floor (I was a medical transcriptionist working from home). The microwave and refrigerator were in the kitchen at the other end of the house and I had to wash dishes in the bathtub of the bathroom adjacent to my office, and cross bare concrete to get to the shower. It was a long, loud drag.
I have a great deal of empathy for you guys. Here’s hoping that the number of days you will be without a finished, fully functional kitchen is a single-digit one.
@ BCS repeating my previous reply:
I have since done some other designs using what I think is a better font, with red letters and baji-naji symbol on black, since black and red are Tabini’s heraldic colors. (The brain is a strange and wonderful thing — when I was typing the above sentence, instead of typing “Tabini,” the name I started typing was “Toranaga” — an “equivalent” character from the book/miniseries “Shogun” . . . . !) The type font I used was “Vein” (https://www.dafont.com/vein.font) which I selected because it had that “brush-stroke-y” feel of the characters in the baji-naji symbol. see: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?number=172325345
“Vein” reminds me of an old font called “Legend”.
Hey, WOL, I saw that in the prior thread. — Yay, that looks better!
Hmm, Vein is quite different from Legende / Leggiero (there are a couple of other names for versions of that font) but it does have some of the same feel. Legende has very swoopy capitals that aren’t always immediately legible, and yet it’s beautiful. — I’ve snagged the free Vein font to use also. Legende or something like it was used in the 50’s film version of Kim, for their title sequence.
Back in the 80’s/90’s, when I was thinking up font ideas, and before I had a font-editing program the first time, I’d sketched out something that was between the Carolingian style (historical calligraphic hand) and Legende’s somewhat Arabesque style. I think the sketches got lost or destroyed by water damage some while back, but now that I’m thinking about it, I’m going to do another sketch of the font idea. I also have a “Rusticana”-like style, or a couple of them to sketch out again, or get a calligraphy set (mine’s in storage) and write it out that way, scan and clean up.
Thinking of fonts that would suit this made me realize a couple of holes in what’s available out there, and got me thinking, what would I do if presented with something like this, which really calls for something other than the usual suspects like Eurostile or Serpentine. Heh. So I expect to be sketching to come up with font ideas, just because. Like WOL, to me, this calls for something calligraphic, but with a retro-but-modern feel for aerospace and harkening back to the railroad / model trains and tea time influences I’d mentioned before. It seems like with the atevi’s rapid advance and their man’chi for the trains, plus their style of court dress, it would call out for something that fits, well, somewhere in that space. (Space? Ooh, bad pun. Sorry. LOL.)
There’s also the style of the Mongolian (?) font itself, from the characters used as atevi Rage letters in the logo, to draw inspiration from as a traditional source. So, I’m thinking up stuff, just because, and I expect that will go in more than one direction, a calligraphic script of some kind, and a more monumental / signage look…or I may be able to come up with something else entirely.
(I don’t know how fast I’d get any of that into actual font drafts, but it’s a really good creative challenge anyway, something with an unusual, special design goal you wouldn’t get every day; thus the interest.)
Along those lines, something rather Art Deco might be a canned Publisher font, Magneto. It makes me think of 50s diners and car repair shops. Try looking at old advertising for railways and Route 66 for inspiration.
By this time, I would have a NASA-style countdown clock ticking off the days, hours and minutes until I got my cabinets!