Time to Officially Move!

Well, I've been living in two houses for a few months now.  But today was time to start REALLY moving in to the new house.  I had a couple of rooms now officially carpeted, and it was time to just start taking everything over to the new house.

Thankfully, Mom and Dad were off for the day after Thanksgiving.  Of course, Mom ended up shopping the entire day while Dad and I moved, but, hey, that's to be expected.

So that's really what today was!  Dad showed up at 8:30 A.M., and we drove my little truck over to the new house full of furniture.  We then picked up my big truck that was full of the old kitchen flooring and drove it to a dumpster.  We then used both trucks to carry furniture to the new place.  All in all, we did three back-and-forths.  So we ended up moving five truckloads today.  And I'm happy to say that my house is almost all moved out except for some pretty minor stuff!

Getting rid of the old kitchen flooring opened my truck back up for use!

I kept my bed and washer and dryer in the current home.  I also have my clothes and tools.  But everything else is moved over!  What a relief!  I have the week off before the closing date, so this is going to be the time to empty out everything, but what a huge step in the right direction!

The garage is PACKED!!!  No room for one truck, let alone two!

Thanks, Ma (she DID finally show up) and Pa!

In more exciting news, the painter continues to blaze through the house.  He has a goal of finishing up this weekend.  He's down to the last bedroom, closet, and two bathrooms upstairs!  Woo hoo!

Bye, bye, green!



The Master Bedroom being trimmed out in new paint.

Look at that new color on the right!  Love it!

 

More Master Bedroom.

The new color!  I love it!

The new bathroom!  Agh, I cannot wait to replace that tile!!!

I was ready to go early in the evening, but I wanted to make sure that my painter did the walk-in closet right.  So I decided to take down the shelves for him.  Oh my, what a chore that ended up being.  I knew the previous owner had cheaply solidified the shelves with 2 x 4's to hold up the massive weight of whatever was on there, but I had NO idea just how he did that.  I mean, these shelves were held in place with lag bolts!  And 20 of them!  I started ratcheting them out, but I finally just gave in and grabbed the cordless drill.  And the screws holding up the shelves?!  Unbelievable.  I probably had to remove 50-75 screws this evening.

The shelving had 2 x 4's cheaply added to hold up the shelves.

And it opened up my eyes to the fact that the previous owner was just not gifted in craftsmanship.  Which is actually terrifying when thinking about the rest of the house.  But I'll use one picture to illustrate.  On one of the corners of the shelving, he literally placed 17 screws in the board to hold it up.  SEVENTEEN.  It's absurd.  It's ridiculous.  It's silly.  It's stupid.  But I had to take them all out.  One by one.

Seventeen screws holding in this tiny piece of wood!

What I was left with was a mess of bullet holes all up and down the closet, but those will all be patched, and I'll be sure to NOT line up the new shelf lines with the old ones.  Oh, what a day.  But I'm excited to have this walk-in closet be one of the selling points of the home!  It's HUGE!!!



Look at all of those holes!  It's absurd!

One of the shelves was just moved down an inch.  Yes, that means the shelf is no longer level.  But, hey, this guy had no idea what he was doing, so why not?

And just for fun and excitement, I took a picture of a couple of the rooms with actual home-y stuff in them!  This house is turning into a home, and I love it!  This is when it gets even more fun!  Now if only I had some floors to finalize it all!  Oh well, not yet...

The living room now complete with furniture!

One of the two smaller bedrooms ready to go!