I am trying to watch a show from Amazon Prime on my tablet, but the internet keeps stopping. I will try again later. Until then, I will tell you another tale.
Ivan said the furniture was delivered yesterday, the new couch, and the matching chair; the loveseat has not been delivered yet. I cannot wait to see them, however. Hopefully we will go later today so I can take a photo of them for you. But here is what they looked like when we bought them.
They will need cushions, obviously, which will probably be leather. Then we will buy bright throw pillows for color. Little by little, things are coming together to make our new home a reality.
I must tell you, though, that we walked for about 2 hours, going store to store, looking for “our” furniture. (If you did not read about the furniture buy, that is ok. I am always up for a little replay). We walked down the Main Street in San Pedro Tultepéc, just outside Toluca, all of which is about an hour to the Northwest of México City.
Ivan, Enrique, and I met up with Luis, (you remember Luis, our contractor), in San Pedro, and we walked the street, (it is one, long street, about 2 km), looking on both sides, for the furniture we knew, (read hoped), was waiting for us. I will say, that it did not take us very long to find the living room furniture, in the above photo, but dining room chairs, in the photo below, took us the better part of an hour. Plus, we had to stop for some soup (sopa) and tacos. It was close to the lunch hour.
But eight of these chairs were delivered two weeks ago, after having been spruced up. Originally, when we looked at them, you can see that the spaces between the spines have no stain, or top coat. Also, the bottoms of the legs are dinged, and needed to be refinished. Well, all of that was done, to all eight of the chairs, and now, they are in the spare bedroom, waiting for the new table that Martín is making. We cannot wait to see his handy work- he is so talented. The table he is making is similar to the photo below.
The biggest difference will be that it will probably be solid oak pieces, and the legs will be oak as well. (I told Ivan that somewhere in our home there has to be some wrought iron. Somewhere, or else).
Until I can get a photo of the latest changes in the condo, that is all for this post.