I’m on a ‘time out’ after a series of traumatic events… Hopefully, I’ll be back in the full ‘blogger scene’ this coming week.
The first photo shows our plant room or pass through to the garage. It is enclosed with HVAC, but it doesn’t normally look this cluttered. Yes, we do have a permanently decorated Christmas tree...normally stored in a large closet.
The second photo was taken looking from our living or family room area over into the dining room…where yours truly was working on a project just to keep me busy. We were trapped in our living area and kitchen! We don’t usually have parts of our bed sitting in this part of the house. All around us there were sights and sounds of change.
Even our
primary bathroom was inaccessible!
But…the bonus room over the garage, which is connected to a guest bedroom, bore the brunt of the disorganization. It’s where my computer lives too. With the exception of the heaviest pieces of furniture, everything from my office, a dormer room and 2 guest bedrooms had been relocated to this room… Included in the load were about 1,000 books and 80 or so photo albums and a plethora of table lamps. We even wondered if the bonus room floor could handle the weight!
So why
the mess and distress? Well the fact was
that the carpet on the second floor of our home, on the stairs, and in the
primary bedroom suite was well past its expiration date…having served the house
even before we moved in more than 14 years ago.
I had to concede that this ‘change’, even if ‘traumatic’, was definitely
required!
The
hardest part is trying to put the house back in order in a reasonable period of
time. We’re going through books and
decorative items, trying to decide what to donate or sell…one item at a time.
Here are a couple of photos showing portions of the new carpet installation. As every husband knows, “Happy Wife equals Happy Life”…and Laurie is indeed much happier. I had to write a ‘large check’ with trembling hand, but in fairness the price was reasonable.
Speaking
of homes… As I’ve mentioned many times before, new homes have been popping up
in the neighborhood without pause. The
woods behind our house is gone. As of
about 7 days ago, this lovely slab foundation had replaced the wooded lot. We assumed that we were in for many months of
construction…
Apparently
we were wrong! This photo is from only 6
work days after the picture of the slab.
A day after this photo was taken, this new home was completely closed up and the entire roof was finished as well. Our best
guess is that this particular new construction was designed by the home owner
and there must be a deadline re: completion date.
Thanks
for stopping by for a visit!
Take
Care, Big Daddy Dave
Gosh...lots of works need to be done! We have been avoiding to renovate our place because we just can't stand the chaos...and with cats..just can't. So I guess we either have to buy a new house and leave everything behind or live with it...LOL..you see, how lazy we are!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new carpet. We need to do the same thing in our bedroom.
ReplyDeleteExcellent but traumatic home changes. The foundations of all your furniture had to be given new coats. But poor you all with the chaos it created! That new home looks so very close to your back yard...hope when the trees and bushes that remain come into leaf, you won't be looking into each other's windows.
ReplyDeleteAnimo con los cambios esperó que todo salga bien. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteOur apt has wall-to-wall carpeting so any replacement would certainly mean relocating furniture. But, replacement is done only when a resident moves out, before a new one moves into the apt. Management does provide an annual free cleaning which we have used in the last, but after learning that doing so could break down carpet fibers, we decided that every 2 years would be better. Thankfully, we are pet and child-less so that also helps. The new carpet does look nice and soon your home will be back in order, Dave.
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