We have been in our new house for over a month now. We have been slowly unpacking, fixing things that break, and working on house projects - like putting in the backsplash:
The projects never seem to end... I think I am getting a flavor for what infinite means in the home-owning-project-world :)
We just discovered that our washing machine drain pipe (the one attached to the house) has some leak in it that has been draining between the wall in the kitchen and the utility room. If we didn't need to do laundry, we could put this project off, but we know we can't. The wall that is being ruined is the wood-paneling in the kitchen. So, we now have to consider whether we should just rip out the wood paneling period and drywall the 2 and 1/2 walls that would need to be replaced. The lovely owners before us only redid part of the walls. Yes, decisions, and $. Gotta love it!
But, you know what made this house start feeling like a home? Well, it began with simply putting together the bedroom set my parents bought for us. Once together, we had an extra dresser that needed to be put somewhere - guest bedroom/office it was! Well, we had empty drawers in it, and extra space in the new dressers. Since we lack closets, I decided to put the guest sheets/towels/blankets/pillows into the old dresser, and to put blankets we use in our room into our dresser. For some reason, this small task made this house feel like a home. I wonder if it has to do with the feeling like we have a place for people to come and visit us, and not be squished into our front room. I wonder if I just felt maternal/homey in this bit of organizational love. I really don't know. However, since then the little steps we take to organize and unpack things are just making things feel more homey to me :)
Yesterday, Jon and I bought curtains for our bedroom. They are up, but we are going to hang a few things on the wall before posting pics. For my own sanity, I have needed just one room to be 99% complete - this is our bedroom. The only thing that is really left is the molding between the ceiling and the wall, and repainting the molding around the floor and the door frames. I'll post pics when our decor is on the wall :)
Anyways, off to just rest. Lina has a mean fever that began last night, and she is actually napping now - poor girl!
