Spring cleaning came a little early this year. Yard raked, mulch laid, tiki laterns placed. You can see the red cedar mulch outlining the cedar bushes in the corners. We also repiled the sticks and branches again at back, and in order to make more room in the basement, we moved out the big grill that Ken left us last summer. It's mostly all still just barely recovering from winter, but we got a lot of the brown stuff cleared out, making room for the green. The lillies are now pressing up through the ground. Spring is here. Today was our first open house which meant Marcela took the kids into the city while I finished all of the last details around the house. Washing, waxing, last touch ups, etc. You can see some of the details at the
online listing. 
We painted the wall behind the sink the same color blue we had painted the wall underneath the cabinets, just for continuity. Ken and I picked out the color one day when we were at a warehouse home store, trying to remember what color Marcela had used last summer. Once it was done I realized we had accidentally matched the color of aluminum screens that come with the window. And, yes, that is a new curtain rod.
We also built a door for the bathroom medicine and towel cubby. This one we hung with real offset cabinet hinges and drilled a real cabinet handle. It was tough to get it to hang right because the opening is just north of square, but we built it piece by piece, making sure each one fit before the next one was added and it works great - or, it opens and closes without a hitch, anyway. I hadn't even really noticed before that the cubby was missing a door, but Ken Resnik pointed out where hinges had once been and it suddenly seemed obvious to me. The bathroom does look nicer now.
We think the kid's room looks nicer too. The pink was almost too heavy, shrinking the size of the space visually. We miss the mural - although Catherine doesn't; she told us the other day that it made the wall look "too messy." - and Maxim misses her secret stories on the side wall, but this neutral pale yellow doesn't commit the room to being a kids room the way the pink did. It makes it feel bigger in there. Maxim said the other day, "Daddy, it feels like we already moved." "Because you think you're in Florida?" "No, because my room looks like a new room." She's mulling over each consequence and change. Noah has schemed to build a "Big big big big big big um holdin thing to um put on top of the car to take our house to Florida. Can we do that Daddy?"
During the week, we stained the hall floor and went to the mall to buy Maxim some new pants. Later in the week, we coated it with a semi-gloss finish; it gets a lot of traffic. Then we went out to the hardware store, paper store, and pharmacy. It wasn't quite dry when we got home, but it had lost all of its odor. Then when everything was all ready, the putting away began. Boxes of this, boxes of that. We had realized last summer when camping that we really did need all too very much to live. Now as we put things away that we know we won't use for the next four months, we wonder why we have so much stuff. Boxes of this, boxes of that. Then a cleaning of the windows and floors, a dusting, a vacuum, top to bottom. I think it's ready. Whew! Time to relax.
Spring cleaning came a little early this year. Yard raked, mulch laid, tiki laterns placed. You can see the red cedar mulch outlining the cedar bushes in the corners. We also repiled the sticks and branches again at back, and in order to make more room in the basement, we moved out the big grill that Ken left us last summer. It's mostly all still just barely recovering from winter, but we got a lot of the brown stuff cleared out, making room for the green. The lillies are now pressing up through the ground. Spring is here. Today was our first open house which meant Marcela took the kids into the city while I finished all of the last details around the house. Washing, waxing, last touch ups, etc. You can see some of the details at the online listing. 
We painted the wall behind the sink the same color blue we had painted the wall underneath the cabinets, just for continuity. Ken and I picked out the color one day when we were at a warehouse home store, trying to remember what color Marcela had used last summer. Once it was done I realized we had accidentally matched the color of aluminum screens that come with the window. And, yes, that is a new curtain rod.
We also built a door for the bathroom medicine and towel cubby. This one we hung with real offset cabinet hinges and drilled a real cabinet handle. It was tough to get it to hang right because the opening is just north of square, but we built it piece by piece, making sure each one fit before the next one was added and it works great - or, it opens and closes without a hitch, anyway. I hadn't even really noticed before that the cubby was missing a door, but Ken Resnik pointed out where hinges had once been and it suddenly seemed obvious to me. The bathroom does look nicer now.
We think the kid's room looks nicer too. The pink was almost too heavy, shrinking the size of the space visually. We miss the mural - although Catherine doesn't; she told us the other day that it made the wall look "too messy." - and Maxim misses her secret stories on the side wall, but this neutral pale yellow doesn't commit the room to being a kids room the way the pink did. It makes it feel bigger in there. Maxim said the other day, "Daddy, it feels like we already moved." "Because you think you're in Florida?" "No, because my room looks like a new room." She's mulling over each consequence and change. Noah has schemed to build a "Big big big big big big um holdin thing to um put on top of the car to take our house to Florida. Can we do that Daddy?"
During the week, we stained the hall floor and went to the mall to buy Maxim some new pants. Later in the week, we coated it with a semi-gloss finish; it gets a lot of traffic. Then we went out to the hardware store, paper store, and pharmacy. It wasn't quite dry when we got home, but it had lost all of its odor. Then when everything was all ready, the putting away began. Boxes of this, boxes of that. We had realized last summer when camping that we really did need all too very much to live. Now as we put things away that we know we won't use for the next four months, we wonder why we have so much stuff. Boxes of this, boxes of that. Then a cleaning of the windows and floors, a dusting, a vacuum, top to bottom. I think it's ready. Whew! Time to relax.
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