The Project - Day 1
For a family like mine there's nothing worse than trying to sell your house. It's not just that we're trying to keep the house clean with two little mess makers (plus me). It's not even being forced out of our house on an hour's notice so some stranger can open all our closets and snicker about our sense of style. Simply put, we're borded.
The first thing we did after closing on our house a little over six years ago was to start ripping out the kitchen. We've spent most of the time since then tweaking our home in one way or another. In the past six years we've painted every room, remodeled the kitchen, remodeled the laundry room, remodeled a bathroom, built a deck, sodded the lawn, and even replumbed the house ourselves. And that doesn't include the work which we hired out to contractors, including finishing the basement and rebuilding a garage. But since we first put the house on the market at the beginning of the year, we haven't been able to do a thing to the house other than plant some flowers and clean. We lost our hobby and we're bored.
But no more! We've got the perfect excuse to work on the house again - no one's buying. We've not had a single serious inquiriy in the four months that it's been on the market, and we think that's because our 1950's ranch has a powder room for a master bathroom. In 1952 a half-bathroom off a bedroom was a luxory, but today's savy home buyers expect a bit more, especially when spending over three-hundred thousand dollars. So, we're going to give them one. In perhaps our most gutsy home improvement project yet, we're going to convert a hallway closet into a shower, move the lavatory and toilet, and lay tile. We're also going to swap the furniture in two rooms and get the furnace replaced at the same time. All of this while the house is on the market.
Yesterday was day one of what should be a ten day project. We started painting one of the bedrooms in preparation for the furniture switch. Yes, that meant we were up until midnight painting, but that's why I have a bottomless cup of coffe here in my home office.
The first thing we did after closing on our house a little over six years ago was to start ripping out the kitchen. We've spent most of the time since then tweaking our home in one way or another. In the past six years we've painted every room, remodeled the kitchen, remodeled the laundry room, remodeled a bathroom, built a deck, sodded the lawn, and even replumbed the house ourselves. And that doesn't include the work which we hired out to contractors, including finishing the basement and rebuilding a garage. But since we first put the house on the market at the beginning of the year, we haven't been able to do a thing to the house other than plant some flowers and clean. We lost our hobby and we're bored.
But no more! We've got the perfect excuse to work on the house again - no one's buying. We've not had a single serious inquiriy in the four months that it's been on the market, and we think that's because our 1950's ranch has a powder room for a master bathroom. In 1952 a half-bathroom off a bedroom was a luxory, but today's savy home buyers expect a bit more, especially when spending over three-hundred thousand dollars. So, we're going to give them one. In perhaps our most gutsy home improvement project yet, we're going to convert a hallway closet into a shower, move the lavatory and toilet, and lay tile. We're also going to swap the furniture in two rooms and get the furnace replaced at the same time. All of this while the house is on the market.
Yesterday was day one of what should be a ten day project. We started painting one of the bedrooms in preparation for the furniture switch. Yes, that meant we were up until midnight painting, but that's why I have a bottomless cup of coffe here in my home office.
posted by RecoveringBaptist at 6:33 AM
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