Grafton's First Thanksgiving

What could be a better time to host Thanksgiving than one month from moving into our first house?  Well, that's our plan, anyways.  My parents (and Shadow) are currently en-route to visit us for the weekend and celebrate the holiday (hooray!).  I'm super excited to see my family again and to have our first non-Keith visitors to our home.  Of course, I had crazy dreams about how much more progress we would have made by now, but I think all things considered, we've made some good strides.  If I could just quit my darn job, I could get so much more done...

One of our biggest hurdles to having overnight guests was figuring out a shower curtain solution for our upstairs guest bathroom, which looks like this...



... minus John creepily hiding in the corner... usually....

It's great to have the third full bathroom, but what were the contractors thinking we'd do to enclose it??  Thankfully, we're just about the most clever people I know.  Here's our solution: a ceiling-mounted track, á la IKEA's KVARTAL system.  John and Dremel Multi Max worked together to mount the track along the ceiling and now we just need to install a curtain.  To allow it to hang correctly, that's going to require some Frankensteining of an extra-long shower curtain we picked up the other night at Bed Bath & Beyond. 

KVARTAL... IKEA, you've done it again!

We'll see how that goes... Just in case, though, we bought a rod and shower curtain for our downstairs guest bathroom.  Always good to have a back up plan.

Although you can't really tell by Target's photo, the shower curtain looks so fancy.  It's more of a vanilla color than the white it appears and the embroidered bordered has a bit of a sheen to it.  Paired with a matching vanilla cloth liner, the sun shining through it this morning made it look like it was glowing.  So classy!

Anywho, the gracious Hilton Gods are letting me free at noon today, so it's a race to get our last minute projects and sprucing up done before my parents and Shadow arrive.  Hopefully along the way, we'll snap some photos of our progress to share.  Things are looking good at Grafton.  We definitely have a lot to be thankful for this year.

Happy Thanksgiving!