It was a sweep of new appliances...

As I mentioned in my last post, we got our house keys on October 11th and booked our movers for October 23rd.  We also decided to book the delivery of 2 couches, a fridge, stove, dishwasher and a microwave range hood on the same day.  *gulp*

We knew from having visited the house before the official SOLD sign went up that the kitchen appliances were toast.  The harvest gold colour was our first clue as to the age, and then we discovered the fridge leaked if you turned on the water and ice dispenser.  Oh and it didn't make ice anymore.  Oh and the stove made this horrible ripping metal sound when you'd open the bottom drawer, and a slightly less tortured sound when you opened the oven door itself.  Much later our contractor told us the dishwasher would have never worked either because the electrical connection to it wasn't working or wasn't hooked up right.

So we knew ahead of time that new appliances were in order.  We shopped, we bought... we booked a delivery time.  Easy peasy right?  Uh yeah I guess....  At some point, and I'm not sure if it's once we got the keys or before, we discovered the washer didn't work anymore, so we'd need a new washer and dryer as well.  GAH!  So this time we went online and ordered a set from Sears plus the fancy pedestal thingies.  Mainly because John is tall and he's not a fan of bending down almost to the floor to grab his clothes out of the appliances.  We booked these two items to also be delivered on the fateful October 23rd.  Boy that day was going to be a doozy!

Before:  ACK!  Harvest gold!

New fancy schmancy dishwasher

New convection oven stove with big window to peek in at yer cookies.

A few days after delivery had our contractor friend Al install the microwave range hood vented outside and bumped up the cupboards above to make room.

Shiny new fridge that has a carnivore drawer and ice and water in the door and not on the floor! :D

Here's a better view of the bumped up cupboards above the appliances.

Turned out that move in day wasn't that bad.  I was at the new house at 8am to accept delivery of all the new stuff and John stayed at the old place to let the movers in to pick up our boxes and furniture.

All my delivery guys came in, picked up the old crap, brought the new stuff in, assembled, took packaging away and everything by 9:30am.

John's mover crew was done pack up the truck so they came over to the new place, after having lunch and unloaded everything by 3pm ish.  It really was easy peasy lemon squeezy!

We did have an issue with the new washer a few weeks later on:  it stopped working.  We had to get a Sears guy in to take a look, turned out the brand new washer was all corroded inside.  He ordered us a new washer that was delivered November 23rd.  

New washer and dryer up on their pedestals: 

their beautiful whiteness making the vinyl floor look like crap LOL

The next mini reno DIY stuff we did was to take the knobs off the middle of the kitchen doors and put in regular silver knobs in anticipation of eventually painting all the cupboards white