For Sale

We had been talking about this for a long time. Every time friends came over, we wished we had more room to entertain. Now that I think about it, I don't know why we want a bigger house. It's just the two of us. We have 4 rooms and only use 2 BUT when my family come over it is nice to have those extra rooms.

My sister in law had been talking about moving out of her house, and every time she went out to look at houses on Sundays after dinner, we'd tag along. Needless to say we finally got the courage to call our real estate agent and put our house up for sale. I was hoping that it would take a long time for someone to want to buy it. And it did. It took 3 weeks to get an offer, just in time for the semester to be over with, perfect timing! It didn't seem very real until this past week when we actually got the final date. Yikes! Is this really happening? I guess so since half of our stuff is in a storage unit. Since we put the house up for sale we have been slowly moving things out so we didn't have to do it all in one day. Man moving is a lot of work! Specially the cleaning part.

This move is going to be bitter sweet. This home was our first home together. A lot of good things happened here. This little home was so good to us. Even our neighbors were great, I'm going to miss them too. I'll miss living in a cul-de-sac too.

It'll be hard to part with our home and go live with my in laws for a while. I'm going to feel a little homeless and probably a lot home sick.

But, I'm excited for a new beginning, a new adventure. After all, home is wherever Mike is, right?

We did a little bit of upgrading to get it ready to sell. It was mostly in the living room area, here are some before and afters.

Top pictures are of the same angle, one with the old door and one with the new. It took me a while to get used to all that light. Every time I would walk by I would think someone left the door open. I'll miss our beautiful door that I worked many extra shifts for.  

Recently we retiled the entry way and finally got rid of that horrible orange tile.

We also repainted all of the rooms and put in new base boards. Oh what a little paint can do. When we moved in I didn't know that when you painted you had to wait a couple of days for the true colors to set in. I made this mistake painting the rooms but was too lazy to ever change it. They looks so much better now.

My cute little helpers

 

Before with the horrible paint job and old base boards...

After

  

 

 

 

In the living room my sister in law, Emily,  gave us that fan for our wedding present. We loved it! We also re did the floors and baseboards. We were supposed to re do the ceilings and put crown molding in but we never got around to it. Oh well, maybe in our next home. 

 

 

We're sure going to miss this little home of ours!