About a month before the closing day we thought about pre-ordering what we would need the most immediately: a washer-dryer set and window treatment. However, it took us longer than we thought to decide on the window treatment and measure all of our windows so we placed the order at the very last minute. Now it has been a week since we officially moved in and we are still waiting for the window covers to come. We also bought some furniture. It is important to ask the PM whether your house is set up for a dryer with a 3- or 4-prong cord so that you could order correctly. Thanks to the July-4th sale, we got our washer-dryer set with a discount. We did some research and saw that the ones with the most and the highest rating are from Maytag and Samsung. We got the Samsung set below from Sears due to the high-tech functionality they came with (click on the pictures below to go to product page). I love that they offered free shipping and installing, let me schedule exactly what day I want them to deliver the set, and recommended what extra parts would be needed for installation. We had such a hard time deciding what type of window treatment we want. Blinds are a little too traditional for the style we're trying to achieve although they provide the ability to adjust amount of light you want. Curtains are nice but expensive and need to be washed regularly. Shades look modern but limit the ability to adjust light. For the look we want, we decided to get light-filtering roller shades for the first floor and black-out roller shades for the second floor and the basement. Roller shades usually come with 3 different level of how much they let the light come through: solar letting in the most light and providing no privacy, light-filter letting in some light while still providing a lot of privacy, and black-out or room-darkening blocking the light completely and giving the most privacy (so the best for baby's room). We ordered our shades from Blinds.com which will be delivered later a few days after we move in. Below is the color we chose for both Signature Light Filtering and Signature Blackout roller shades: Below are a few things we got from West Elm, CB2, and other stores: Note: Photos of the actual products will be posted once we are done furnishing our home. (I can't wait!)
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