Ok, I'm doing it again; I'm blogging about our next 'adventure' project. A few people suggested I should do a blog about our upcoming home renovation project, so I figured why not. I should be asking myself 'why', since I can't seem to answer a simple email in much less than 24-48 hours now that I have an extra 16 pounds of human life to care for these days. But we'll see how this goes...
Dave and I thought long and hard on this, and in the end we decided to lose our spare room to make it the baby's room, and somehow figure out where to put all of *my* stuff that was in that room. This included a whole dresser and closet full of stuff. If I hear ANY of you comment on how many clothes I own, I will find you. People in the 50's didn't own squat, and the closets in this house are tiny. OK, where was I?
Of course we went to our favorite store on Earth, Ikea. Dave and I are convinced Ikea was born to serve those of us living in micro-houses. We were able to shuffle things here and there and ended up with new carpet, some fresh paint in places that hadn't been painted in a while, and a brand new nursery.
Flash forward to December 2011, when the house directly behind my sister in law's house was for sale. Her husband put a bug in Dave's ear that we should by the house and we could make a 'family compound'. Things being what they are, the house was NOT what it seemed and we decided to take a pass. But, the tiny fire had been lit, and there was no going back. We were destined to get a new house sooner versus later. We always thought we'd get a new house by the time Reef was in grade school... but that's like 5 years away!
To save the rest of the long story, here we are, looking at less than 3 days until we close on a new house. Woah, that was fast! We're happy that this house is literally 4 doors down from Dommerich Elementary School and Maitland Middle School. I'm so excited for Reef, and he has no idea why. I have always wanted to be able to walk to school. I had a friend in grade school who lived right around the corner from school and sometimes I got to walk home with her. No 1/2 hour or longer bus ride home. Two turns and we were home. So perfect.
Our house on Camelot Road is a 4/3/2. It's nearly 2x larger than our current house. Can I tell you that my favorite part of the house is the closet space? Plus, as it's been pointed out to me, both Dave and I can have food poisoning at the same time again, and it won't be a huge problem (Yes folks, in our one bathroom house we had food poisoning one night. I can tell you, it wasn't pretty). Of course there's a fully fenced back yard for Alani. And the piece de resistance for Dave is the 2 car garage. Bette can now come home.
Oh yes, about my precious Bette. She's on a bit of a hiatus right now, as you might imagine would happen with a hot rod car after a new baby arrives. But I assure you that she's still in the family and some new additions have been made in the recent months. Once she gets to her new house and work starts back up again, I'll start back up with her blog again.
The name of this blog is Reconstructing Camelot. And that's because not only are we buying a new house, but we're also remodeling said new house. The house was built in 1968, and is in need of some updating. Why? One word: Wallpaper. Oy vey. Luckily it's only in a couple of rooms, but I'm fairly certain the people who put it in used Gorilla Glue to adhere it to the wall. The other massive renovation we're going to do is take out 3 walls. Yep, THREE walls. We'll be taking the walls between the kitchen, dining and family rooms out to create an open, updated space. It's not like we have anything else going on, right?
Luckily we'll still be living in our current house while most of the heavy demo/construction goes down, but I know that we'll be itching to move in to the new place as soon as we can. Should be an interesting couple of months, better buckle up and hold on tight.
Now, anyone see my packing tape and Sharpie? There's some packing to be done...
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