Sunday, October 14, 2007

Overwhelmed!

That is the one word that describes the way I feel right now.
First of all, the move went very smooth and fast. We had lots of people helping and we apologize for the backs we may have broke. I don't think anyone wants to see us move in a year again! We really didn't have alot of big furniture, but we did have a ton of stuff. The biggest thing was the piano and Steve's mom had rented some equipment that helped in the moving of it.
Now thinking about never being in the other house is kind of bitter sweet I guess. I don't really miss it but it is still hard to see a home we had gutted and made beautiful now belong to someone else. Although, we are so thrilled with the space here. Over 2400 square feet of living space and our living room is empty because we need to buy more furniture!
So....the reason I am so overwhelmed is......there are SO many things I want to do here. I have already stripped the wallpaper in the kitchen down, so glad to see it go. The kitchen needs to be gutted and redone but that project won't happen for a while
Steve is off in two weeks, so the plan is to paint the entire main level, and then rip all the carpets out. We have hardwoods so those will all be refinshed. I can not stand carpet.
Now, as a welcoming gift, one of the basement bedrooms revealed some lovely mold around the bottoms of the wall. We were trying to determine what was cauzing the mold and figured we needed to do some landscaping in the back. No biggy. Well, all of the sudden water started backing up in the basement bathroom and flooded the bathroom. So we had the unplug guys some and unplug the pipes. They were full of tree roots.
Now, anyone reading this and knows about our Brandon house is probably laughing because they know how many times the rental has had the lines cleaned because of tree roots. So this really isn't new for us.
Our property has alot of huge trees on it which has cauzed this, and the previous owner was an old lady who probably never had it done. So right now we are currently working with our lawyer to work this situation out with the previous owners. Just kind of ironic that this happened the first day we move in...hopefully we can get it all fixed up and taken care of. Gotta love those new house surprises!

4 comments:

Jamie said...

I'm glad you're all moved in. I'd love to see some pictures when you have a chance!

Trev and Rebekah said...

Hope life gets less overwhelming for you.

Julie and Greg said...

Congratulations on moving into your new place! Hope you get settled in soon!

Kimberly said...

Hi! How are things going with the house and all your surprises and projects?