Where I've Been

I have not been avoiding you.  I promise.

I have been extremely busy with our NEED LESS PROJECT and getting our house up on the market.

The cleaning up and cleaning out is simply endless and it makes me almost glad to keep my moving every 3 years streak alive!  Just imagine the clutter I'd collect if I stayed in one place for too long!  Yes, you are right, it's mostly my husband who is the "collector," but I thought I'd try to share blame!

The house is now listed on Craigslist and Alaskalist and I've started a blog to post more information and pictures at 47130autumnroad.blogspot.com.  It is coming along and we've had an interested party call inquiring more.  They are from California, so not being able to come by is a hindrance to them and thus requires me to send more.  I'm perfectly fine with that!  I'm rather excited as a matter of fact!  I just wish I didn't have this pesky job thing to go to so I could devote my time to gathering and sending information!!  Oh, well.  The joys of selling.

We have both been extremely motivated to finish projects and create new ones on our house.  It has been fascinating to see how God has been providing funds to do so.  I don't imagine He's doing this to help us live in a home that is nicer.  I'm sure it is because He will sell it soon!  I doubt He feels any necessity in a stainless dishwasher over a white one, especially since it doesn't even work as well, but He provided it!  Our next big project will be to redo the deck and since the snow is beginning to melt, we should be able to kick that off in a week or two, barring any future snow dumps.  We still have some tweaking to do on the house and are contemplating putting in new cabinets/counter for the kitchen, but not too sure about that one just yet.  I know HGTV recommends it, but if we can sell it without, we will!  We'd have to raise our price if we do too much renovation!  Shucks!

I just thought I'd give an update on where I've been and where I'll likely be for a short bit.  I will try to keep updated!  Thanks for all the encouragements!

Rate my Room #2: Master Bedroom

This is the view when you open the door to our bedroom. (the curtains are not on fire, it just looks like it!) The king size bed fits comfortably in this position with the dresser just on the right outside the above picture. The walls are a chocolate brown, and though it's dark, the carpet is light, the ceiling is light, as is the bedding/window treatments. Below you can see the big dark wall. It is the one wall that has no windows/doors on it and it does seem blank. I have ideas of a large scale artwork piece that we may get around to, but I'm up for suggestions.


This picture shows the wall of mirrored closet doors. Nice, I know. I can sense your jealousy. One thing they do, is make the room feel bigger and lighter. The center cabinets provide nice storage, so I can't complain. Way back here, we had a queen bed positioned along the big blank wall. The dresser would have to be moved to a wall near the closets to fit, but would this look better? My vote is yes, Pat's vote is leave it alone! I don't blame him: this bed is huge and HEAVY! What do you think of this room?

"Rate My Space" sort-of

I've now experienced the phenomenon of pictures not being able to be moved. Never happened to me before. Fortunately, it doesn't matter too much on this post.

As you are aware, we are prepping our home for sale in the NEED LESS PROJECT. Sadly, this is the only room that I can even take a picture of that is almost finished! I want to know (I think) what you think. I may or may not take suggestions based on our time and money restraints.

This is our tiniest spare room in our loft/upstairs. It is extremely small, but I've tried to lay it out in a roomy way. We painted and removed the daybed frame, setting the bed on the frame on the floor. Just so you know, we are planning on replacing the window, and it's trim, so don't think we don't see it! I've thought of painting the dresser, but that is actually a lot of work and I don't want to do it. Yet, anyway. Suggest away and let me know what you think! (If you remember, this was the "for sell" picture earlier!)

NEED LESS PROJECT Underway!

This week began in earnest our, what will heretofore be called, NEED LESS PROJECT! We have worked all last week on painting and siding our garage. Yes, it's cold here, so that is why we are painting inside and hanging the painted siding outside. It does present some issues that will have to be addressed later such as painting all the scratches and nails. It still looks better than Tyvek! It's also much easier to paint horizontally as opposed to vertically!

Oh yes! I have been pushed into the realm of power tool usage. It's a little daunting to use something that can saw my leg off, but I'm fortunate to have a very safety minded teacher. As you can tell below, we have opted to forgo the "ladder of death" in favor of a slightly better option of a real extension ladder. It's still scary to me, but my fearless leader is undaunted.

In case you were wondering, this is our garage "loft" that happens to have a 12/12 pitch. That's really really really steep. We still have to put on the soffits, but all in good time!
On an inside note, we have also been working on redoing our spare bedroom. It's a tiny little room that just fits a bed and a dresser. It really needed some work. Talk about selling to motivate one to fix things up! We figure if we don't sell, we'll have an incredibly nice place!

Seriously. People post signs like this up here. We can't quite figure out if 1st grade exists or if the meth use just eliminates that year from people's brains. Don't make fun. You have these people in your neck of the woods, too!