Yesterday, we took receipt of our new couch and dining-room table . In fact, if I had been alone in the house at the time of the delivery, I would have accepted the wrong couch, as they brought a much bigger one than the one we ordered, and it was in a different colour. Of course, I didn’t remember any of the details, so it was Sarah who piped up and announced, “Er, that’s not our couch.” After an extra trip back to the shop, they were back with the right article.
In the process, the ground floor of the house has been transformed. Our old couch, bought for about $50 from our landlord in Palo Alto back in 2002, has now moved to the front of the house, in what we have chosen to designate the sitting-room. So, not only do we now have a comfortable place to sit in the living-room, but the front of the house no longer looks so bare. Nevertheless, there’s still a lot of work to be done before the sitting-room looks anything like finished. We want to get a Persian carpet for that room, plus another couch and one or two comfortable armchairs. That means spending a lot of time in shops, testing couchs and looking at carpet designs.
We had an interior designer come over in the morning, too, so hopefully we’ll soon get some new ideas from her. We especially need help with the lighting, as we still have a number of bare light fittings around the house. A hindrance here is that Sarah and I have quite different taste when it comes to illuminating our living environment.
The other major news yesterday was that the car dealer called to let us know that our new Audi A6 Avant has arrived from the German factory. They’ll be taking care of the registration paperwork early next week, so I’ve made an appointment to pick up the car up next Thursday afternoon, by which time it will be registered in my name, polished and ready to go. Exciting!