House Redo

The Love Nest is Moving

by Kay~Kacey on 11/15/2010

Yes, folks, The Love Nest is moving. After 3 years of apartment life over in Columbia…We’ve kind of hit our limit. Not that we didn’t love our little Love Nest over there. Though the insulation was non-existent. We’re also tired of the 3 flights of stairs. So we decided to start looking for a nice little house over there. Well, we found one, and barring any problems with inspections, we’re scheduled to move into the house the first week of December! (Knock on wood)

columbia-house It’s a cute little 3 bedroom/2 bath house. Guess which room gets painted first??? Yes, the “screen saver blue” room has to go. (SuperGuy’s name for it.) The house backs up to some land the town owns, so hopefully it won’t get developed behind us. It has a nice little gas fireplace too, see that?

columbia-house-2 It has the fridge already, so we really just need to get a washer/dryer and we’re set to go. I’m stupidly excited about having a garage. Very tired of parking way down the parking lot at the apartment.

Annie, if you’re reading this, it’s on the east side of town, off the Lake of the Woods exit. South. Fairly near your parents.

It’s about 15-20 minutes closer to St. Louis, which is nice for the commute back and forth. It’s about 5 minutes from SuperGuy’s work, so that is nice too. SuperGuy is working about 8-10 days a month over in Columbia, so it will be nice to have a home over there too.

The best part? The house payment is less than what we pay in rent for our apartment… :rofl: The housing market over there is so depressed right now. Plus we’ll be building up equity, instead of just throwing rent away each month…and did I mention it has a garage? …and no three flights of stairs to get into it?? :love:

So you’ll get to follow along as we decorate the house. I’m sure I’ll have moving stories galore.

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Oh, and The Impish One? If you’d like to collect some friends/roommates for the first weekend in December, we’ll throw money at you to help us move! :woot: Or food. Or both!

A Sucker for Survivors

by Kay~Kacey on 6/30/2010

I am such a sucker for survivors. Like this pretty cracked milk glass piece…with its tiny crack.

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Like these tiny portulaca plants and petunias. They are annuals here in the midwest. But they determinedly sprouted up this year. The weird thing? The portulaca were from TWO summers ago!! In a hanging planter on the balcony rail that I wanted SuperGuy to tear down and get rid of. But I couldn’t stand to lose these spunky plants. So I dug them up and put them in a few pots in the backyard. Didn’t really think they’d make it.

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But look! they are going to bloom! Wonder if they’ll come back again next year? I guess they didn’t read the gardening book on how they are annuals in our climate. Will get pretty macro shots of the blooms soon. :love:

Drop by tomorrow, I’ll actually have some photos of ME at the wedding. Who knew?? :rofl:

The Actual Door

by Kay~Kacey on 11/18/2009

Well, we did actually get a new front door. Unfortunately, similar to the lock…we’re not having very good luck with it.

As soon as the contractor left, we noticed you could see daylight coming through at the top and bottom of the door opening. :wallbash:

So we called the contractor who said, “oh, yeah, the kit was missing some of the weather stripping thingies. I’ll get them from the door manufacturer and come back.”

It’s also a double door and the “dummy” door doesn’t fit very securely. Yes, they’ll need to fix that too.

Sigh. Did I mention I’m so not good with this remodeling stuff?

The windows in the door are beautiful though. They let so much light into our front hallway. Love that. :love:

I need to pull out my macro and take a closeup of that glass. Bet it would make a good texture overlay for photos…

There is enough character and/or wavey-ness to the glass that you can’t see inside either. Even with the lights on inside at night. I won’t tell you how we tested that theory… 😯

Now I’m in paint chip heck, trying to pick out the perfect red color to paint the door. The painter is supposed to be here the end of the week. He’s also going to paint our stairwell inside that needs scaffolding to be painted. SuperGuy just isn’t into scaffolding painting. (He’s afraid of heights!!) :secret:

Well, I’m back to staring at paint chips. . .

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