Following the dream becomes a little harder when you are channelling it through Lowe's and Home Depot. The vision of the gorgeous house fades a little as you wander lost and forlorn up and down aisles of merchandise that is not quite what you want or what you're looking for.
It's a huge task to buy a whole houseful of appliances in less than three weeks. There's three toilets, a bath, countless taps, stove, sink, vanities - the list goes on. My face began to hurt and my brain was throbbing as we valiantly charged through these vast American emporiums to consumerism.

And did I mention tiles?

And then to top it all off we had to end the afternoon at Glens - a large and cheerless supermarket with no salespeople to be found. ARGH!!!