August 27th, 2007
When we had the floors refinished, we temporarily removed the original corner cabinets in the dining room. The cabinets themselves need to be stripped, but that project will go on the back burner. For now they’re stored in the basement bathroom that we tore out way back when.
Once they were removed, we decided to put [...]
August 26th, 2007
…and he maketh me work very, very hard to moweth the lawn.
You may have heard that we’ve had a lot of rain recently in the Midwest. We had a very bad storm on Thursday which left power outages all over the area in parts of Glenview, Skokie and Wilmette. Somehow the worst of it missed [...]
August 26th, 2007
I’ve done some little things around the house this weekend, like rehang a door in the basement near the AC unit and furnace. I think the sound from it spooks one of the cats a little, so hopefully that will cut down the noise considerably.
I’m also spackling some holes that the PO left in the [...]
August 23rd, 2007
This is the dishwasher that came with the house.
Considering it sounded like a train roaring through our kitchen, you’d think it was hard at work scrubbing off those food bits and getting everything squeaky clean. But this is how our dishes looked after a spin through it.
Yuck. The glassware was even worse. The food bits [...]
August 21st, 2007
We did a lot this weekend, even though it doesn’t seem like it. I was hoping to paint the kitchen, but it took a good part of Saturday just to get my painting supplies organized (and I have to be organized before I start on a project, otherwise forget it!). The paint cans, rollers, trays, [...]
August 16th, 2007
Guess who loves to “swim around” on the pool table?
I knew he would.
We’re enjoying it ourselves a great deal (even though I suck!) now that we finally have the basement somewhat clear of boxes. There are only about 6 or so left to unpack.
We let the cats down here a couple weeks ago [...]
August 15th, 2007
See that mailbox? Is this a mailbox that belongs on the lawn of a bungalow? I think not. A farmhouse perhaps, but not a bungalow.
And so began my quest for a new mailbox. I saw some worthy candidates on the web, but nothing really bowled me over. Finally, as we were making another fun house [...]
August 14th, 2007
We’ve been in the bungalow a few weeks now, so we’ve started to get back into a semi-normal routine. It’s been so long since I’ve moved into a new place that I’ve forgotten what it’s like to get used to something different. I probably just didn’t care back then or I wasn’t as set in [...]
August 8th, 2007
In our previous house, we had the floors refinished mainly in the hopes that it would sell quickly. I wasn’t necessarily concerned with the longest-lasting or best finish — I wanted a nice job, but it was going to be whatever the contractor used. That’s why I don’t understand how the supposed “typical” buyer is [...]
August 3rd, 2007
With the minor renovation complete and our house listed as a 3-bedroom, we could only hope for the best. Since we had to move furniture out anyway, we took this opportunity to pare down even more than we already had.
Out went all the bookcases, the living room sofa (which was very difficult to move [...]
August 2nd, 2007
Right before Memorial Day weekend, I said to Pete, “I think we should look into changing the house back into a 3-bedroom.” I knew exactly what the original layout of the house was, because one of my good friends from high school grew up only 1/2 block away from us in the same style of [...]
August 1st, 2007
I must say that this spring was not the best time to be selling our house. I had hoped to sell last spring (2006), but if you’ve read my previous posts then you know the PO was not going to get his act together to fit my schedule. I’m pretty sure we would have been [...]