January 19: Ordered carpet and furniture, bought paint.
Took everything off the walls and out of closets. Purged unnecessary items and threw away lots of “stuff.”
February 1-2: Move furniture into garage. Move in with my parents.
Interesting that our entire house, except the kitchen, fit in our three-car garage, (including our two cars) or in our two small downstairs storage rooms. Since our house was void of furniture (including couches, beds, desks and dressers), we’ve moved in with my parents for two weeks. You can see where I was "trying out" paint.
Helping. This is after new paint, but before new carpet.
February 11-12: Carpet install.
February 15: Move back in.
We gave away our previous living room furniture, so the room was empty. There was no place to sit. It’s amazing how often we hang out in there, and how annoying it is when we have to sit on the floor. See? No place to sit.
February 21-23: Paint the boys’ rooms.
This was during two huge back-to-back snowstorms. We did get it done quicker than anticipated, because school was cancelled for four days. It did make my work-from-home abilities a bit more difficult. Do you know how hard it is to manage painting with two boys, plus try and get some actual “paid” work done?
Painting Zach's room.
Adam's finished wall. Zach had orange paint in his hair until the next time we got it cut.
March 14: Living room furniture finally arrives.
Our new furniture arrived the day before we left for nine days during spring break. Of course.
Next:
Put everything back on the walls.That could take a while. Scott just wondered why we didn't just put everything back the way it was? Well, that would be too easy...I want to change things up a bit.
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