Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Moving In... and It's a Mess!


Well, we aren't totally moved in. Our stuff is now split between two houses, but we are making a lot of progress and all the BIG stuff is moved....so that's something.

I've been digging holes for landscape like a madwoman. I'm sure I've dug over 100 holes in 100+ degree heat. The plants are pretty stressed and we're using a lot of water to keep them alive.

There are tons of little things still to do inside like, install doorknobs and doorstops, still waiting on a few kitchen cupboard doors to come back from the shop, finish tiling kitchen walls, get closets fitted with shelves and hanging bars, make a bookshelf.....and a bunch of other stuff that makes a house a home. It's kinda like we're "just visiting" because our clothes are in stacks on the floors of the closets and nothing really has a place yet, but it's SOMETHING!! And I'll take it any-day compared to driving back and forth, between houses, multiple times a day.




tiling the kitchen side wall
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painting closet doors (I finally got the size right after only 3 months!)
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the first bits I brought over
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 bringing the big stuff over in the U-Haul and putting the bed back together




 We just had the U-Haul for two days, so everything just got plopped in the great room.






Below is a picture I took with my phone of our old house after moving the furniture out. It makes me sort of sad...



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 starting to get organized


 the TV room
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boys' room
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 guest room
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one of the closets
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 planting  hundreds of orange jubilee








 just some of the pots
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paver driveway, spanish colonial house


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 master bedroom


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staining wood for bookshelves



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 After many, many tries at mirrors for the boys' bathroom I finally decided on the plain 4 foot long medicine cabinet. I loved the look of the two different mirrors (below left). In the end, storage was more important than style in this bathroom without cabinets.





kohler brockway sink




kohler brockway sink




It has three mirrored doors that open

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paver driveway






black wing chairs at dining table



wood garage doors, knotty cedar stained garage doors, paver driveway



cedar garage doors, stained knotty cedar garage doors, wood rollup garage doors




 Main hallway with office doors on the right, front door straight ahead
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