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Sunday lunch at one of my favorite places 💖
The passionate city girl in me never imagined I’d live in an American ‘cookie cutter’ home and neighborhood. I’m not sure what changed, maybe age, maybe my love for Bellingham, maybe my yearning for a small yard where I can grow some veggies, but I’m so excited about moving into this house next weekend! We had the choice of four home models and we went with the one called Spruce. And even though it’s a spec home in a development we had the most amazing builder who supported our extra wishes wherever he could: removing a wall to make a bathroom bigger, bathroom and kitchen cabinets with drawers instead of just cupboards, a microwave above the stove instead of in the kitchen island, adjusting the laundry room to make room for the cat’s litter box, lots of extra electrical outlets and nicer light switches, different exterior paint to the planned brown color, white interior walls (everyone else has beige), and many other little details. Normally the builder doesn’t work this closely with the buyer, usually everything is handled through the realtors but the seller’s realtor was not very helpful and we are grateful for a builder who allowed us to work with him directly. It will have made all the difference once we move in and make this our own, thank you! 🏡
Since realizing that they planted a maple tree in front of our house I’ve been feeling giddily happy 😊🌳
Found the perfect table and chairs for our patio today! I’ve been looking for something in a lighter colored wood for ages and was so happy when I stumbled across this beautiful teak set at 1/2 price today. We quickly snapped it up 😍 Looking forward to al fresco dinners and also summer outdoors working at this table 💻☀️
Tonight we realized that we haven’t come down here since my family went back to Germany almost a week ago. So we quickly remedied that and enjoyed a lovely evening stroll along the sea.
Putting the top down on the little bug and making the most of the warm summer temps. Mind you, the sky is still hazy from the Canadian wildfires, we really need some rain on the west coast.