The First Day In The Second House

We are running about a day behind since we did not have internet at home until late yesterday, but here is how things looked on Tuesday (our first full day in the house) with all of our boxes littering every room. Goodbye clean blank slate. Hello chaos. Oh and it bears mentioning that nothing is necessarily staying where we put it (we simply dropped furniture and boxes around the house, and will certainly be living with things a bit before committing to final placement for anything).

But let us rewind a bit for a moment. The last time we moved, we were going from NYC to Richmond in a minivan (well, I guess technically we moved one more time three months later from our apartment to our first house, but we borrowed a small trailer from a friend and were able to transfer everything that way). The point? We had no idea what it was like to move with more than five boxes a piece. And I am not gonna be all rainbows and unicorns about it. It totally bites. But we are slowly but surely making a dent in things and starting to gain some order. As in, we now know where our socks and underwear are again. And we have showered!

We estimate that by tomorrow we should hopefully be mostly unpacked (since we have been taking post-writing, picture-taking, Clara-tending, address-changing, and comment-answering breaks between box unloading spurts). Then we will be diving into projects like painting, hanging, removing, replacing, floor planning, window treating, etc. We do not know what we will tackle first (it’ll honestly simply depend on our mood and what supplies we have on hand). When it comes to big projects we like to save our pennies and plan things to death, but for small things (which we consistently recommend doing first so you can live with the house a moment before making any dramatic changes that you might regret) we consistently simply dive in and learn as we go. It is the only way we have been able to accomplish things instead of being paralyzed by indecision. So we will hang frames somewhere and if we do not like them we will move them. Same deal for picking paint colors and arranging furniture. And we will post pics and details as they occur, not to worry! Anyway, on with the messy simply-moved-in pics…

Future dining room:

Future office:

Kitchen:

Future living room (furniture will not necessarily stay in this configuration, it is simply where we dropped it for the moment):

Hall bath (amidst a diaper sprayer installation – more on that here):

Clara’s room (of course rebuilding the crib and getting the basics in there got priority because we hoped her to adjust as well as possible- which seemed to work so far):

Future playroom/kids room (we had to disassemble the daybed to get it down the hall):

The master bedroom (since our old bed frame conveyed with the old house, we are sleeping on the floor until we build/buy a new one- who knows where we will end up on that):

The master sink/bath (we need to raise that tension rod to accommodate our extra long curtain… soon):

No idea what Burger was doing in that picture. Perhaps he’s developing an interest in home related details like hardwood floors and molding. Anyway, here is the sunroom:

And the laundry/mudroom:

Oh yeah and we have another separate entry basement (this time it is under our bedroom instead of our sunroom) which will be excellent for storing tools, bikes, the lawnmower, seasonal decor, baby stuff, maternity clothes, etc.

So that is our house. Cannot wait to get things unpacked and share pics as each room starts to take shape and projects start to unfold. Off to unpack more boxes…

Psst- Here is a floor plan to assist you make sense of what room’s what (although we switched Clara’s bedroom and the playroom since the smallest room makes a strong nursery).

Psssst #2- We announced the winners of this week’s giveaway. Click here to see if it is you.