Ok, let's first take a look at things from far away--it looks nice, right? But that's because of my and Elena's design sense--we designed just about everything in our new home. If you look closer you'll see how all the details of our designs are fucked up in the hands of China's construction workers...

This is how things look upon closer inspection.

This is what I mean when I say it looks like they just rubbed peanut butter into the cracks...

Or chocolate sauce onto the glass pane of the windows.

How about some syrup?

These are called "finished."

Yes, it's like a bad joke. It really does look like that.

Smeared dirty industrial strength glue on the barthroom sink that we have no idea how to remove.

Gives new meaning to the word "paint job."

Yes, the handrail is DEFORMED.

They tell me they have no idea how to make that corner perfectly smooth. I tell them to simply use a thin strip of flexible material, glue/nail it to the side, fill the nail holes, and then match the paint to the rest of the bookshelf, and they tell me it can't be done. Seriously, WTF?!

Yeah, fuck up our tiles and then just fill the gaping holes with PLASTER. Why don't you just kick me in the nuts while you're at it?

These people appear to have never seen or heard of measuring tools. Our walls and corners are fucking CROOKED.

And finally, you need to have your reproduction rights revoked when you can't even drill a fucking hole in the right spot to install a cabinet handle.

I don't sound like a drama queen anymore when these photos put things into perspective, eh? I really, really hope that in the very near future, I can post photos of how everything has been fixed and looking beautiful. It may be an impossible dream, but let's see if we can pull it off.