House in town

 I know I've been talking a lot, and for a long time, about getting the house in town ready to sell.  I know you probably wonder what we do there all the time.  Well here's the thing.  We have not worked in this house since we started building our house in the country 2 1/2 years ago.  Our time has been consumed with building our home, and there isn't enough time to take care of two houses.
 I thought I'd show you a bit of what we've been doing.  This room was full.  It's the living room and old dining room.  Now it's empty except for the little cabinet back there....

 I need it to stay because I need something to set stuff on.  Like cans of paint.  We've had a couple of realtors out and one asked me if I would paint this room a neutral color.  I said I'd think about it.  You know what.  I LOVE this house, but I am burnt out on it.  I'm tired of painting, cleaning, emptying.  And everything that gets emptied gets dumped off at our new house.  Dumped.  I need time to put stuff away.  But there isn't time to put stuff away because we have stuff to do at the house in town.  And I've already painted two bedrooms and a basement.

 I don't want to paint anymore.  I find it amazing that people have no vision.  They look at a room and think their furniture won't match the color on the walls.  Really?  I know.....I'm just tired.
This is a gas log fireplace that heats up the room really nicely.

 All of the doors are wooden and the doorknobs are glass.

 And If I paint this room I have to paint a couple of nooks, with doors, and lots of trimming. 

 If you go through this doorway, it leads to the hall which leads to this built-in closet.

It is now empty.  And guess what I found?  Sea glass I collected when my Sister and her husband got married at St. Thomas.  Love it.  I want to make a bracelet out of it someday.

 

 All of the floors in this house are hardwood, including the stairs and upstairs bedrooms. 

 Garden tub

 Glass block window

 

  replicas of antique fixtures

  Exposed brick chimney

 This room is also empty, except for this table.  We need the table to sit at when talking to realtors. 

 beadboard

 Expensive tile flooring.  Tile from Italy.

It takes time to paint, to clean, to empty.  It takes time to put stuff away.  Right now everything is a mess at our new place because 1) I've been working at the other house all the time and 2) I haven't had time to put things away.  They are stacking up.  It is driving me crazy. 

I also got the potting shed cleaned out and we basically dumped all of that into the garage at the new house.  I think we made 8 truckloads.  I know, it's a lot.  I have a lot of pots, and gardening stuff.  I do not need another thing.  I'll be going through that stuff getting rid of some of it.

I did have a huge indoor rummage sale last week.  It was a great sale and what didn't sale got packed up.  I'll be having another one soon. 

In the meantime....back to work.

Cindy

Last room in basement done - working on house in town

I've posted some of the stuff I've been doing at the other house, on the other blog.  I thought I'd take a moment to update you on our progress on this blog. 
We did get the trim up around the last room we were working on in the basement.  Remember, it's the room that's not really a room!  It is the area that has doors that lead to other rooms.

 We also got the lighting done.

 

 And we have filled it up with stuff.  Stuff that I am now working on getting rid of!  I know....

 No I do not want to get rid of the pie safe!  With help, I have moved anything that has storage capacity into this room.  The thing is, we've moved stuff from one house to the other so fast, and so often that I haven't had a break to put things away before we started moving it again.

 And for the last month, we have been working on the other house. 
These are pics -below- from our house in town that we are moving from....
This room no longer looks like this...but I've been amiss at taking pictures.  I know, I can't believe it either.  

 And this room no longer looks like this.

 We have set up tables to get ready for a moving sale.

 We have cleaned out every room upstairs....and painted....

 and two rooms on the main level are cleaned and painted...

 and look at this basement!  Empty except for the washer and dryer.  It has NEVER looked this way.

 When we bought this house, we bought it off of the original owners, who had it built in the 1940's, and it was full of stuff.  We had to move stuff out before we could move in.  They were 92 and in a nursing home.

 The freezer is gone now too.

 The really fun part is that I've been finding stuff I forgot I had.  See that little triangle in the pic above?  It's under the stairs storage.  I put stuff in it and forgot about it!

 Love this cake stand!

So, between cleaning, painting, stashing, storing, selling, packing, and moving, I haven't taken time to blog.  And I would like to put out a special thank you to Andrew, Marilyn, Marcia, Mom, Dad and Gloria for their help.  It means a lot. And thanks to Vickie too....for coming over and keeping me company and knitting while I painted!

Cindy

The last 'room' in the basement...

 Here's the room Dave has been working on, building a closet in it for his work clothes, putting insulation and osb on the walls....

 Inside the closet while I was painting it (a couple of weeks ago)

 You can see the newly built closet in these pics...

 OSB on all of the walls...

 including up the stairs.

 A peek inside the closet.  Don't hate, those are all his clothes and shoes, except for one rod on the bottom left for my summer shirts.

 This picture gives you an idea of where we are working.  You can see the door to this room leads into our bathroom, and living area.

 And I've been using the pantry. 

 We both spent the last two days priming and painting this room.

 TA DAAA the painting is finished.

Next we need to put trim up around the door and along the floor.  It's a basement, it's not a room we'll ever really use, but I have some ideas of what I want to do with it once we get moved upstairs.  And guess what....when we get this done, and finish with the molding and trim on the stairs, we will be working upstairs!  I am SO excited.

 

Cindy