Our house in town is on the market.

 THIS....
 
 is NOT the house on hilltop farm.  It's out house in town.  And what you cannot see in this picture



is the garage.  You can see it in this thumbnail size picture below.  I got it off of the realtor.com website.

 This post is loaded with pictures.  I wanted to save pictures of our house in town and this is the best way I know to do it. 
We bought the house off of the original owners.  The man had just passed away and the woman was 92 and in a nursing home.  When we got the house, 19 years ago, it did not have this room jutting off of the back, or the two/two story garage and the back yard was plain with a few bushes.  No fence.  No patio.
And the reason we have not been working on our house in the country is because we have been getting this house ready to sell.  We emptied the house, then cleaned and painted some of the rooms.

 This first set of pictures are from the realtor.com website.  Yes, we finally have the house listed.  It took a long time to get it emptied out.  When we bought the house it was full.  We both had our own households to move in, and we lived here 19 years.  It's the first time we've seen it empty!

 The room with the five windows on the left is my man's garage.  Every man LOVES this house.  Wonder why?  I don't think they even see the house.

 Dave built the hammock stand and landscaped the back yard.

 This is inside the potting shed he built for me.

 greenhouse made from recycled materials

 kitchen

 living room

 Main level of the garage

upstairs in the garage.  It would be a great studio.

 bedroom

view of pond and potting shed

 view looking through arbor at potting shed

 upstairs bathroom

 bedroom

 downstairs bathroom

 

Here are the pictures I took.  This is the front entryway

 This is the three seasons sun room.  Mom and I painted every one of those window frames.  70 in all.

 inside and out.  Dave scraped them first.

 I love this room.  This house was built in the early 40's.

 sun room

 

 I love this old knotty pine.  You just don't see wood like this anymore.

entry into the house leads to living room
 

 living room

 mail slot.  Our mail is delivered right inside our house.

 built in cabinet at the end of downstairs hallway

 we completely gutted this bathroom and remodeled it.  Tin ceiling

 The glass block window was already there and I refused to let it go

 so we installed a garden tub instead of a shower

 this is the original chimney in the house going through the bathroom.  We exposed the brick.

 Closets were small in the 40's but this one was deep, so Dave built shelves behind the rack you hang clothes on.

 The floors in the house is hardwood and original to the house

 This is looking out into the backyard from the downstairs bedroom window

 in the kitchen looking into the sitting/dining room that we added on.
 

 In the dining/sitting room looking into the kitchen

 Kitchen cabinets are original.  I like leaving the character of the house the same as when it was built.  So when we added on or did work on the house, we tried to keep with the character of the 40's.  We did add a farmers sink.

 This is a better look at the room we added on.  It looks into the back yard.

 skylights

 Basement.  Laundry room is in the basement.  It's a good size laundry room.

 with outlets all around if you wanted to set up a workshop.  The outlets are table height.

Dave made the patio out of original Kokomo brick

 side view of the garage.  (muddy time of year.  If you look at my other blog you'll see we are in the midst of a huge flood right now)

 hardwood stairs leading to upstairs bedrooms

 upstairs bathroom

 view from upstairs of back yard

 linen closet in bathroom

 nooks and crannies in the bedrooms

attic space in both bedrooms upstairs

and behind the closet at the end of the hall.  (great place to hide out!)

So there you have it.  Our house in town is done.  It's been a long, long haul.  We cleaned out every nook, every cranny, every drawer, closet, shed, garage, room.  We then cleaned the rooms.  Painted some of them, refused to paint some of them!  Worked in the yard and got the pond running.  And left the house of our dreams to live in one room in a basement while we build the house of our dreams.  So when people ask, "What is taking so long."  This should give you an idea. And I'm not going to say it's been easy.  IT....HAS.....NOT.
We are getting along just fine.  Amazing.
We are tired.
This has probably been the most stressful part of the entire process.  We just wanted the house done, and on the market by spring.  The weather has not cooperated at all.  This has been the longest winter ever, and now our town is flooded.  Plus, we don't have room to store all of this stuff in our new house.  I've had two garage-type sales, I've pitched and tossed, I've sold and given stuff away.  

We are muddling through and feel a huge relief right now just to have the one house almost done.
 I still have to move two beehives to the country, and a huge pile of bricks.  I've given up on the brick moving party! (heavy sigh of relief from all of you!)  Dave is taking a week off this week and we'll finish up.  We also plan on sleeping in...relaxing....maybe getting out of town for a day...

In the meantime, say bye bye to the house in town, pray it will sell quickly, and we are back at working on our country home soon.

Cindy

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