I’m a bad blogger. It’s been 3 weeks since my last post. Wish I had a good excuse, like I’ve totally finished unpacking. But the truth is, the time I haven’t spent blogging has not been used to complete unpacking even though we’ve been in the house for 6 weeks now. We are making progress on the unpacking front. But we’ve gone from a 1600 sq. ft. apartment to a 1200 sq. ft. house so it’s been challenging to find space inside the house for everything and decide which items get demoted to the garage/storage shed or get donated altogether.
But we haven’t been total slackers. During our non-working/non-traveling/non-socializing hours we’ve been splitting our time between unpacking and continuing to work on the house.
To keep everything in perspective, I made a list of what we’ve done and I have to admit that we’ve accomplished a lot so far. Here’s a breakdown room-by-room:
- Repaired serious lath & plaster cracks
- Primed & painted it blue (duh!)
- Painted trim & doors
- Painted ceiling
- Fancied up the baseboards
- Pulled up carpet
- Pulled up vinyl found under the carpet
- Installed wood floor
- Primed & painted it red (duh again)
- Painted trim & some of the doors (reminds me that we still need to paint & reinstall the closet door we removed when the floor was refinished. Note to self: find that door, last seen in garage)
- Fancied up the baseboards
- Refinished hardwood floor
Kitchen
- Replaced shiny gold faucet (I’m not a gold fan so replacing gold XXXX will be a recurring theme in this house)
- Removed huge water filtration system
- Installed soap dispenser
Dining Room
- Replaced shiny gold locks & doorknob (wasn’t meant to be done so soon, but when it’s your main entrance and your key stops working…)
Living Room
- Purchased new tv stand (hey – shopping counts as work!)
Hall Bathroom
- Nothing yet besides unpacking & organizing
Red Room Bathroom
- Can’t even claim unpacking since boxes are being stored there. But it is now possible to get to the shower so that’s progress.
Hallway
- Primed & painted ceiling
- Started to patch major hole
- In process of fancying up baseboards
- Painted trim
- Installed wood floor
Laundry Room
- Installed utility sink
Outside
- Never-ending quest to tame the overgrown front & back yards
- Found source of water under the house & had it fixed
- Replaced driveway sump pump
- Fixed numerous sections where drainage pipes weren’t actually draining (note to previous owners: it helps to actually connect these things and to remember gravity’s effect on the flow of water)
- Set up compost bin
- Ran electricity under house for future crawl space sump pump
- Installed light in crawl space for future sump pump work
- Halfway done digging around the house to remove the soil that’s up against the wood siding
So considering that we took possession of the house 10 weeks ago, I guess that’s not a bad list of accomplishments. It’s just hard to see that sometimes with all of those freakin’ unpacked boxes staring at me.
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