We had our first showing yesterday morning, despite the fact that many walls need to be painted, many items still need to be sorted and tossed or recycled or donated, and carpet needs to be replaced downstairs. The more we clean the more I find more places where dirt is lodged. I just looked at the door to the deck, for example. I had wanted to wipe it down and then maybe re-paint it at some point. I didn't realize how grimy and disgusting the lower edge of the window is. Who ever looks at that? Well, I did yesterday. It is still grimy. There wasn't time to fix that... yet.
On the other hand, we have made an insane amount of progress, much of it due to Austin. I'm not bad at packing, cleaning, and organizing but he is amazing at it. Not to mention that he worked two 19 hour days of painting and cleaning... so much so that I was a little worried on Friday night that he had physically harmed himself by pushing himself so far. (Note: the guy runs marathons sometimes, but he still needs sleep. Thankfully he got some sleep this weekend and now seems fine.)
So. Some painting has happened. Our front entrance has new flooring. The kid's bathroom has been almost totally re-done (that was in the works before we made an offer on a house, though). And we have put a LOT of books into storage.
I love books. Austin loves books. Alex loves books. Julia loves books. I'm pretty sure that even our cat, Apollo, loves books. We have put perhaps a third of our collection into storage so far. This first photo is of a bookcase that is still standing, but which Austin switched out some of the less-used books and magazines. Apollo enjoyed checking out the temporary empty space. Also note the flurry of random books and papers in the foreground; those were put away in a box for the showing.
The other photograph I want to share is of the brick and board bookcase that housed our fiction books. Austin dismantled it, packed the books and took all of the books and materials to storage. Now he's painting the dingy wall a beautiful cream color and we are hoping to re-carpet the entire area. Hopefully I can share some "after" photos in the near future.
And... that's it for now. More soon, possibly related to packing and moving more books. We have a lot of books...
Amazing! It is amazing. I hope the boxes from Andrew's store are helpful in your continued book-packing undertaking. We have a lot of books too, as you know. People used to say to me "You can never have too many books!" Little did they know.
ReplyDeleteMore boxes cannot hurt! So thank you. :)
ReplyDeleteI guestimated that we probably have around 3,000 books in our house... but really, I have no idea. Maybe I should count them as I unpack?
Too many to count = too many???
I can not even estimate. We may have twice that. Possibly. It is insanity.
ReplyDeleteI think it depends - if you would find it interesting, by all means, count. If you would find it depressing...don't count!