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<\/a><\/p>\nThe day after the contract was signed, we headed to the house and started hauling stuff out. \u00a0A few guys showed up to help carry out the furniture and at the end of the day we’d taken down all the window treatments and hardware and patched lots and lots and lots of little holes in the drywall. \u00a0David started putting up trim in all the places that just never got finished. \u00a0The perfectionist finish carpenter in him went into hibernation otherwise I suspect some of the rooms would have gotten re-worked. \u00a0You know, the man who trims corners so tightly they almost don’t need caulk staring at the half inch gap between where the baseboard ends and the door frame begins … that kind of thing.<\/p>\n You learn something new every time you do a house project and my learning curve this time was deciding on the correct shade of grey. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0Twenty years from now I bet they’ll send you home with an app that shines colors on the entire wall so you can see what it would really look like instead of guessing from a two inch color sample. \u00a0I was a little horrified at how blue it looked when I first painted it, but now that I’ve lived with it a few months, I don’t think about it as much. \u00a0I think the blue grey carpet makes the walls look more blue than they really are. \u00a0Hey, at least it’s not green-grey or lavenderish-grey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And now, here’s a little virtual tour of the house with as far as we’ve gotten. \u00a0We haven’t done a thing to the kitchen except a friend and I yanked the one cabinet out and shoved it to the other side of the frig to make it at least a little more efficient. \u00a0I love how the cabinets look from a distance. \u00a0I love that they are white and I like the simplistic lines. \u00a0It looks even dreamier on pictures with all the gorgeous light coming through the windows. \u00a0But, it is seriously inefficient. \u00a0Think Lowes plastic (whatever that stuff is they use instead of wood) with shelves inside that aren’t as wide as they should be and at least one replaced with a six inch wide piece of plywood. \u00a0Some of the cabinets aren’t even attached to the wall and most of the countertop could just be picked up off the cabinets. \u00a0Maybe that’s why they aren’t level? \u00a0I learned quickly to never lay an egg on the counter because it will roll off and go crashing onto the floor!<\/p>\n There are a couple of things though that are absolute God-sends. \u00a0The closet in the dining room acts like my pantry and helps to compensate for the deception of the cabinet’s capabilities. \u00a0There is another large closet right inside the front doors that is stashed full of table boards, the vacuum, extra folding chairs, shoes, muddy boots and coats. \u00a0I look at that closet sometimes and want to whisper words of endearment for whoever put it there. \u00a0The windows!!! \u00a0Seriously, for being one of those small, typical ranch houses, this house has an amazing<\/em> amount of natural light. \u00a0If you have heard me talk about the grip SAD gets on me every winter, you’ll understand why this is such a big deal. \u00a0I don’t even want to think about what it would be like if we were still in the basement apartment.<\/p>\n Our bedroom is pretty tight and both bathrooms are super tiny, but it has space in the rooms we most need it. \u00a0The boys’ room is graciously large and easily houses their toys. \u00a0Which is good since I have no idea where else we’d put them. \u00a0The dining room is too little to have a table full of guests (I miss entertaining like that), but the living room is big enough to set up homeschooling stuff on one end of it and we have hosted 16-17 people somewhat regularly. \u00a0So far they’ve all been gracious about crowding around in the living room with their plates of food and lack of personal space and we’ve had lots of fun anyway. \u00a0I’ll know it’s time to get worried when they start boycotting invitations. \ud83d\ude42 The one thing I really still wish to unpack is our books. \u00a0Maybe someday Ikea will come up with a way to suspend bookshelves from the ceiling that can be raised and lowered. \u00a0Oh, and the wall above the sofa is still bare because I can’t decide what to hang on it. \u00a0I’m all ears for suggestions. Help a girl out, pretty please?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n