We finally have several rooms completely finished!! Here are a few of the finished rooms, when we first arrived, and now. The first set of photos is the laundry area. We scraped the popcorn ceiling, textured and painted the walls, tiled the floor, added bifold doors, installed a new light fixture and wall outlets. The second pair is the hallway. All of the doors and moulding is new, the walls have been textured and painted, the floor in front of the bathroom was repaired, and the entire floor was refinished. The last pair is the smallest bedroom. It has a new heater, outlets, paint, door, and moulding. We still need closet doors in there, but otherwise it is finished.
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We took the day off at the Seattle house to go and check up on the Wenatchee house. It has been on the market for two months now, and has not sold. The inside of the house looked great–we didn’t have to do anything inside, but we had a bunch of weeds growing in the landscaping, and the rosebushes in the front were way overgrown. We spent a couple of hours there (in the 90+ degree heat) pulling weeds and triming bushes. I will have to call someone to come and spray the lawn, since the back yard is full of weeds that could not be easily pulled.
After we got done there, we stopped at the Godfathers Pizza Restaurant that we used to own and bought some pizza sauce from the new owners. Grocery store pizza sauce just does not compare to the real stuff. I can make dough–or buy the premade crusts, but it just doesn’t taste good without great sauce!! (We also had some mail there they had been holding for us.)
For lunch, we stopped in Cashmere at the Country Boys BBQ restaurant. They serve really good, authentic BBQ–ribs, pulled pork, brisket…it’s all good. If you are ever in the Wenatchee, Washington area, you should definitely try it.
We then got on the road and headed back to Seattle. Traffic wasn’t too bad, even with the upcoming holiday weekend, so we got back to the Seattle house just before 7:00pm. Not a bad day trip, I just hope we sell the house soon, so we can move along and not have to keep making that trip!!
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The closets in this house are unusual sizes, so we have had a hard time with new closet doors. We could not keep the old ones because they were either broken or had whole panels missing. We wanted sliding doors that matched the bifolds we had used elsewhere, but aparantly they do not make such things. The next best option were glass sliding doors with the white casing. Of course they were out of the size we needed at Lowe’s(although they did say they were on order), so we went to Home Depot. They had ONE set of the size we needed, but that brand was $10 more, and we really wanted all three to match. So we didn’t buy it. Hopefully the ones at Lowe’s will be back in stock by the time we are ready to list the house…
At least we got a few things done today. We did buy the closet poles and wall mounts, which we have cut and are ready to put up. We cut and painted some more trim pieces–thankfully we are almost done with the trim. It has been a HUGE job. But it has made a huge difference in the look of the house. We also decided on some little trim pieces for the upper kitchen cabinets. The lower kitchen cabinets are another story. They have many coats of paint, and some of them are probably oil based. We are going to try to sand them smooth and paint them white, but it may be slow going…Hopefully we don’t have to build new doors. That could take awhile.
I have made a final list of what needs to be done, but every day something new seems to come up. We are getting close, but everything seems to take FOREVER!! Hopefully we can get done in the next few weeks…
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We did a ton more painting and installing of trim today. I took a few pictures of our progress. The bedrooms, bathroom, and the spare room are basically done. The dining room, living room, and hallway can probably be finished tomorrow. It will take a whole day to fill all of the nail holes, and touch up the paint. One all of the painting is done, we hope to start on the kitchen. Then we will be pretty much done. The yard isn’t great–there are some bare spots in the lawn, and there are still paint chips everywhere that the painters did not clean up. Also some of that we got rid of in the first weeks here have started coming back. The yard cleanup will take at least a full day, maybe more. We had hoped we would be done a week from tomorrow, but it will probably not happen. There are just too many little jobs that need finished first…
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We have been working hard at getting all of the trim painted and installed. Kevin measures and cuts the pieces, I paint them, and we put them up together. It takes a long time, mainly because of the paint drying time. And when the trim pieces are installed, we have to go back and fill the nail holes and paint some more!! I am very happy with the result, however–it makes the house look clean and bright.
We are going to try and decide on the kitchen countertops today. We had hired our interior painters to come and install tile, but they backed out, saying they were really busy. Now we have to decide on something–we want to do tile still, but we really don’t have the equipment to do it ourselves, and we don’t want to spend too much more money. We are nearly done with everything else, so I don’t want the kitchen counters to hold up putting the house on the market, so we need to figure out what we are doing, and soon.
We have been here two months now, and we still don’t have a place for everything we brought with us. It has been easier than I thought to have only a tiny freezer–we just have to be more choosy at the Grocery Outlet:) The refrigerator is actually more difficult than the freezer. There is really only one place for large items, and since we use so much milk, that space usually has two gallons of milk in it(I buy two at a time because our Safeway charges $3.49 for one, or two for $6.00). The doors work great for tall skinny things, so we have two pitchers that fit in one door for kool-aide and tea. Everything else has to be fairly small–no big jars of pickles, no watermelons, etc–unless of course we are down to one gallon of milk.
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I did a lot of painting in the house today–doors, door frames, moulding, but there was really nothing to take pictures of, so I thought I would share a few of my favorite non-RVing blogs.
I always have to go to Cute Overload.They post new pictures of cute animals every day. Another one is The Food Whore. She is a caterer and restauranteur in Seattle who posts a few times a week about the crazy customers she deals with. Then there is Post Secret. It is new every Sunday, and features postcards that people mail in with a secret they have never before shared. They can be a little dark at times, but he always manages to put in a few happy and/or funny secrets, too.
Of course, being a huge Grey’s Anatomy fan, I have to check my Grey’s Anatomy Insider page as well. Even though the show is on hiatus, they keep us updated with the latest cast news, as well as a few spoilers. If you want all of the Grey’s Anatomy Spoilers, go here. They are the best at compiling all of the tidbits we hear throughout the summer.
There are a few more places I like, but I will save them for another day when I have nothing interesting to say…
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We have actually gotten some things done this past week. The carpet has been installed in the 4th bedroom/family room(first two pictures). It is a very light color, but the other choices had too much yellow in them to go with our colors. The light carpet makes the room nice and big and bright–all good things when trying to sell a house!
We have also hung all of the new doors. There were three sets of bifolds and five regular doors. The photo shows the closet door in the living room, but all of the bedrooms and the bathroom have the same doors. They came out pretty good, but the house is not exactly square, so we had to compromise on a couple of them.
I have not posted a picture of the bathroom for awhile now, but it is almost done. Here is the latest picture with the fixtures installed. It is a small bathroom, but the light colors and the smaller fixtures make it look bigger. We just need to get the window fixed and install the trim.
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