We’ve been in the house a month now and that is pretty exciting. It’s also terrifying, we’re still moving stuff out of the apartment and progress is slower than we anticipated. We gave ourselves six weeks to do things like get packed and make the house ready but somehow whenever we start a house project it becomes much longer and more involved than we thought originally. We worked on the packing this weekend, going between the apartment and house and boxing things up and unpacking and reusing boxes. It was so gratifying to finally pack up my spices in the kitchen and bring them to the house – now I feel like I can really cook here!
Aside from slow progress, the house feels like home. We know our way through it in the dark already and we’re getting used to being here, commuting from here, going to the grocery store and doing all of our normal things. The neighborhood is great, and the neighbors we’ve seen were all friendly.
Since last Monday we’ve made a fair bit of progress on the house. James removed the carpet in the family room upstairs to reveal vinyl flooring which is fine for now. The carpet came up fairly quickly, and we got most of it bagged up to be thrown out. I painted the master bedroom, which James had primed for me. We have a great blue color paint from Ralph Lauren and it’s pretty awesome looking on the walls. I’ve also painted the trim in the kitchen and started the trim in the living room. We have a new kitchen faucet to install and cute Halloween lights for the bushes outside of our house. There was a big trip to ikea in the middle of the week, and we got a glass shelf for the upstairs bathroom – there is no medicine cabinet, so we put a shelf under the mirror. The upstairs toilet needed a few replacement parts inside so we have a repair kit for it, hopefully to be done this week.
I also snagged this great garland from Grandin Road pictured above for $9. I got the matching wreath as well and our banister and door will look so great this holiday season. Today I am up for more painting and hopefully finishing up the living room, it will be our first completed room!
