Great update! Congratulations on getting this far under all of the crazy circumstances.
We have been looking for a new refrigerator since about May and from what I have been told, there are a lot of appliances stuck on container ships that are not being allowed into ports because of covid. I am holding my breath about the refrigerator as our freezer is struggling to keep everything frozen - we are hardly using it at this point - but I want a specific refrigerator that still isn't available so we are just keeping our fingers crossed. FYI, my backup plan is to buy something off of craigslist to hold us over if it becomes necessary. Maybe you could do that with the dryer until yours arrives?
And I had to lol about the light switches. Yours was special-stupid on the placement for the carriage light switch, but I often think about what folks will say if/when we sell this house. Our kitchen light switch is on the wall in the dining room, just outside the kitchen. It's definitely weird but we have gotten used to it. But I am sure that a new owner will say "wth"?? We moved into our house when we were babies (29/26) and it was brand spankin' new. Now it is quite middle aged. We never thought that we would just stay here. As one of our friends said about their home: "It *was* our first house, now it's just our house".
I hope your fridge holds out. We own one we keep in the garage for overflow beverage storage and such, which we're taking to the new place, along with the chest freezer that sits next to it. They're both nearly twenty years old, and we expect them to fail at any time, but till then, we'll use them. So if push comes to shove, I could go buy a cheap tabletop microwave, and get by. But I'm trusting the trucking company to do what they've said, and I'll expect the new appliances to show up next week. We'll see how it works out. Installation is an entirely different story.
These light switches are just crazy. They have switches and things all over the house where they aren't needed, and they don't have them where they should be. Another example: There is an electrical outlet on the laundry room wall adjacent to the door into the garage. Fine. But it's on the wall opposite where the appliances plug in, and where there is no shelving, or room to place anything that would need to be plugged in. Oh yeah - and it's nearly six feet off the ground! This outlet was installed there because they wanted it installed there. The only thing I can figure out is that they may have had a handheld rechargeable vacuum that hung on the wall, and was plugged in there. Nothing else makes any sense.
If you look at the "art niche" picture in my post above, there is a double gang switch in the middle-right of that picture. Those two switches are now removed, because they were directly in the way of the artwork we want to hang there - and they were redundant. The switches themselves were for the living room ceiling fan, and one wall outlet across the room, for a lamp, I presume. When we put in the living room can lights, the outlet switch became redundant, since there is another one across the room, AND there is ALSO a switch for the ceiling fan AND one for the light on the fan across the room. How many switches in one room do you need to turn on a ceiling fan? (And never mind that the ceiling fan also has pull chains hanging from it to turn on the fan and its light.)
As you said, WTH?
Dave