If the first 16 days of 2014 are any indication, it’s going to be a busy, exciting year.
We have been working hard around our house, getting it ready to be sold. This means lots of packing, trips to Goodwill, trips to storage (i.e. our very generous friends’ basement), and trips to Home Depot! Which means that, more often than not, our house looks like that (above). It’s a little stressful for me, honestly.
We had the carpet in the kids’ rooms replaced yesterday. It doesn’t look too bad in this photo, but believe me when I say, IT WAS BAD. And the carpet from the master, which is getting replaced next week is HORRENDOUS. Light carpet + dark dog = no beueno.
So we had to disassemble Ben’s bed … which is bascially like an indoor deck. You can practically put a Volkswagen on top of it and it would be just fine. So it IS heavy. And it got pushed onto my foot and I was pretty sure it was broken for about five minutes, but it’s just really smashed up and bruised.
The kids were thrilled, because they got to sleep on mattresses on the floor while we handle getting everything demo’d and put back together. Honestly, it went pretty poorly and we ended up separating them BOTH nights. So I’m really looking forward to the rental house where they’ll have to share a bedroom. That should be good fun for all.
The new carpet looks very good. It’s not this dark in real life, honest, and has a more brownish hue to it. Anyway, it should hide a multitude of sins. Not that we get to enjoy that feature. That’s one of the biggest bummers of selling is fixing things that we’ll never get to enjoy. Something to keep in mind for the new place, I guess.
At the new place, not much is happening. It’s still a pile of dirt, but it has a permit pending and we’re placing bets on whether or not we sell our house before the dirt starts flying at the new place. They think we’ll be in by the end of June though. I hope they’re right!!
I feel your pain on doing things just to move. J and I were planning on being carried out of our last house in pine boxes, so we had lots of plans…that mostly came to fruition when we realized that we needed to sell. This time, we decided to do all the work that we could possibly afford at once so we can enjoy the upgrades. Once again, the plan is we’re here for the long haul. I’d miss my reno’d kitchen too much.