Well, we are pretty much moved in at this point. We have almost everything from my mom’s house, minus 1 bed for the guest room, but we’re getting that tomorrow. We still need to do things like hang pictures, get out little knick-nacks for around the place, etc, but the house is coming along really nicely! We are so happy to be in it! Our furniture works really well in the house, and it feels really homey. We got cable and internet on Wednesday, so we’re back online and the TIVO is up and going. I finally got my computer over here today, so I’m able to update the website again. Sorry it’s been so long! We’ve been so busy moving and getting the house in order that I didn’t have time to post.
On Saturday we went to a party at our neighbor’s Julie and Chris who live on the culdesac. A bunch of people from our little street came over, brought their kids and we got to know each other and hung out. It was a lot of fun. We really like all of our neighbors that we’ve met so far. Everyone’s pretty young, the oldest couple on our street is probably in their 40s. Very young neighborhood with lots of dogs and young kids.
We were all taking bets on when we’re going to get our yards done (seed & hay). I think there are only about 4 people on our street that have grass so far. We’ll be really happy when we get it. We found a little patch of grass by the woods in our backyard for Megabyte, but pretty much we have to take her on walks a couple of times a day; Meg really hates that ;-).
Well, guess that’s about it for now. Click on the picture below to see pictures from today:
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Whew! Moving in is tiring!! We’ve been spending the last 2 days unpacking and moving boxes to the basement so they aren’t in the garage. We get our garage door opener today, yay! Now we can actually park our cars where they should be.
We’ll have to get some pictures up of how things look inside. The house is pretty messy – furniture is kind of just sitting around until we find a place for it…maybe we’ll do pictures in a few days.
We met some neighbors last night. They are having an Easter party for our street so everyone can meet their neighbors. We’re going, everyone we’ve met so far on our street is really nice, so we’re looking forward to a meet & greet 🙂
That’s all for now, sorry we haven’t posted in awhile, been busy as you can imagine.
-ec
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Painting continues…
Today the guest & master bathrooms and the master bedroom were painted.
The green in the master bathroom is a little bright, but I think once we get stuff in there, especially our dark towels etc, it’ll calm down a bit.
He has to do another coat of paint in the living room and upstairs hallway. The cream that we picked didn’t cover as well as he thought…bleh, more $$. But…he’ll be finished tomorrow! He just has those extra coats and then the office and he’ll be finished! Money WELL spent, let me tell you!
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Painting continues…
The kitchen was finished today, and the laundry room was painted. The guest bathroom and master bedroom are taped off, so I assume those will be done tomorrow. That just leaves the master bathroom and office which he’ll probably do Friday. Yay!
I started moving things into the kitchen tonight; used my dishwasher for the first time washing the newspaper scum off the dishes/glasses. 🙂
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Painting continues…
Greg finished up the living room today and also did the upstairs hallway. He did the first coat of the kitchen as well. The red looks great! It’ll look even better with two coats; he should have it done tomorrow. So, only the laundry room, 2 bathrooms, office and master bedroom left, and then it’s go-time!
Yay!
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The front room and living room were painted today. They look great! The cream in the living room looks super light, but it’ll look better when the red kitchen is next to it I think. Really satisfied so far with the paint color choices! Tomorrow he’s going to finish cutting the living room, do one coat in the kitchen and do an upstairs room.
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So we went to HHGregg yesterday just to look at side-by-side fridges b/c Paul really wanted one. We found one we really liked, but it turns out that the freezer door would hit the wall in our kitchen when it opened, so we can’t get one. Paul and I found a really nice GE fridge, top and bottom that has an icemaker and a water dispenser in it, and it’s all black like we really wanted in the first place.
After finding our fridge, we decided to take a look to see how much the basic washer/dryer we got costs there. Our sales guy made us an unbelievable deal, and we ended up picking out a much higher quality washer/dryer with TONS more features. The dryer even has a moisture detector that stops it when it detects that there’s no more moisture in the clothes. Talk about energy efficient!
All in all, we got the new & better fridge, washer and dryer for the same price as the ones we “settled” for at Best Buy. The worst part of it all was having to go back to Best Buy and cancel that entire order…they hated us!! Oh well. Money speaks.
Here’s links to our new appliances:
Fridge: Click here
Washer: Click here
Dryer: Click here
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We were out of town this weekend for a mock trial, so we didnt’ get to see our house after closing. We went tonight and took Megabyte. It was her first time out there. She was sniffing and running all around. Her favorite place was, of course, the sliding glass door in the kitchen. Got some really cute pictures of her checking the place out.
We hired the painter that I liked. He will start Thursday or Friday, and we’ll start moving stuff in as he finishes rooms. We can’t wait!!
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Signed, sealed and delivered. We are now homeowners again. Our real estate agent decided not to show up, but I will not go there at this time…Lets just say she’s an under achiever and won’t get any leads from us (this is NOT the same person that sold our house. Our selling agent was great!).
Anyway, the meeting took all of about 30 minutes this morning, and us forking over a check for $34k. Biggest check we have ever written 🙂
Now, its time to start planning my deck and what trees and plants we want to go with in the back yard. Any suggestions? I was actually thinking of a weeping willow on the street side of the yard, or the back right corner where it starts to dip down to go to the creek. The area is a high-sun area, and winters can get to around 0-10 degrees here. We are in a 6b-7b zone I think. Would be open to suggestions. No fruit trees, don’t want megabyte eating the fallen fruit! Something that grows farily quickly and can grow tall. I also thought about some bamboo, but figured that may look a little wierd 🙂
–pc
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Paul and I went out to the house today for the final walk-through. Everything was fixed and looking perfect! We took some pictures of the yard, it finally dried from all the rain. I had Paul stand in some spots to show where the fence will be in a few months…
They also painted the garage and front door molding. I guess the weather has been good enough. It looks great!
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Closing is tomorrow at 9am! Hopefully everything will go smoothly and we’ll be homeowner’s at 10:00am!
I found a painter to do the house, he’s SOOO nice and we’re really looking forward to not having to stress about it! He will start next Thursday or Friday and we’ll start moving stuff in as he finishes painting rooms. We’ll post pictures as the rooms start to get painted and filled with stuff!
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