posted on July 5, 2004 06:54:04 PM new
[b]I received this from glassgrl a few days ago & want to share it with all & to wish her happiness in her new home.
Maybe she can be persuaded to post some pictures & of course include one of that "mint green" eBay room.[/b]
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what I like about my new house and what I miss.
I miss the water of course! I put up the “baby pool” (if you missed that post on AW you’re sadly behind) and took it back down. Now I’m trying to figure out how we’re going to pour cement back here because it WILL have a hot tub on it soon. (and it’s too far back for a cement truck to reach it) (ok, if you missed the post….I put up one of those inflatable pools and collapsed the wood deck)
I miss my over the range GE microwave! I bought my old (new) one off of Ebay and it was the best hands down Microwave that I’d ever had! I would buy another in a heartbeat and recommend one to anybody. Baked potato, just push “potato”. Doesn’t matter how many or what, they were always perfectly done.
I miss my smooth top range. Do NOT ever think about buying a black glass smooth top range. Grey is what the salesman at Sears told me I wanted but Terry found a “deal” on one and bought a black one. That damned thing was like trying to shine a mirror every day. If I even see somebody looking at a black one in Home Depot or Lowes I go up to them and tell them “don’t do it, don’t even think about it”. I don’t want anybody making the same mistake we did.
The lady we bought the house from did have a lot of custom features built in that we never had. Terry’s son just had a house built and I know what the builder charged him for things that we have seen cheaper at a building outlet in Birmingham AL that we would wait and buy from them. Like can lights that are recessed in the ceiling. She had them put in just about every room with dimmer switches on them. I LOVE them! His son said his builder charged like $46.00 a light fixture for them. I have them in the bathrooms, in the living room, over the bed in the Master bedroom. She had dimmer switches put on just about all the overhead light fixtures.
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I love the faux marble windowsills she had put in. They would be a must for our new house if we built one.
I love the under sink lighting in the kitchen. Another thing I’ve never experienced but would install in a new home.
I love the custom cabinets in the kitchen. Hickory, although any wood would do. What I like most is the sliding out bins that hold the pots and pans and bowls. I should send you pics of my new kitchen. I have 2 bins in one cabinet that I use for my pots and pans. Takes up a lot of room but gosh it’s nice. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Then in another cabinet I have one fixed top shelf (these are all under counter) and the bottom drawer slides out, where I have my bowls. In the center of the kitchen on the island I have a another cabinet/pantry that has spice shelves built in on the doors, and underneath, 2 slide out drawers that I use one for snacks and one for potatoes and onions.
She had beaucoup storage built in this house, which is really nice.
I still have boxes and boxes to unpack but we had so much s*it that I don’t want to bring it all into this house. I’m really trying to weed out like my plastic Tupperware stuff and pots and pans. I figure if it’s packed up for a while and I don’t miss it then out it goes into the yard sale pile. We can always replace it.o-spacerun: yes"> We are both collectors and we have amassed a bunch of stuff that we seldom use. I want a CLEAN house and one without so much stuff is easier to keep clean. The ebay room will sadly always look unkempt. Except I have a big closet in there that she outfitted all in shelves and the bookshelf where I finally have room for my extensive metaphysical book collection.
We were surprised at a lot of features that we weren’t aware of in this house until after we moved in. Like the lights and stuff.
We went out to my house the other day and I am still ready to take a match to it. I don’t know what it will take to get that one cleaned out. I have to get up in the attic and get all the stuff out of there but it is too hot right now to do it. We did get a lot of the furniture out of there but I am still looking for all of my dishes I had stored, my blue willow. What he had in his condo was all pink and blue. He had two sets of dishes, one blue, one pink. Pink and blue lamps (the rooms had one pink/one blue lamps). Pink and blue couches. Pink and blue bedspread. (it was furnished when he bought it) I’m more of a neutral beige bronze gold person.
I still have to strip and hang new wallpaper here. The kitchen has daises! And the downstairs bathroom is Matisse blue and pink of all things (of course he likes it! It’s “colorful” to him!) My ebay room is mint green with paint - yuck! Anyway, I am determined that we will combine 2 (or 3, however you look at it) households into one “(semi) permanent” one. Well…for the most part. I still have my stained glass shop out there at my house that I can’t see moving anytime soon (glass tends to break every time you move it). style="mso-spacerun: yes"> And he still has his shop that he built out there that has all his tools. There wouldn’t even be enough room in this garage for his tools, although he is eyeing a spot over at the side of the house here to build another shop. He has these great big industrial size machines. Grizzly table saws and planers and things like that. Although I have thought that the screened in back porch would do to work on a few stained glass projects I’d like to do for this house (where I am now, he has declared this house non-smoking for the most part, although I do sneak a few if I have to, while he’s gone to work during the day) (I don’t mind too much as I have an overhead fan and a nice breeze every day and I was horrified when I unpacked my stuff to find things like the guest towels with yellow nicotine on the exposed front side of them. I can’t imagine stopping smoking but I don’t want to mess up this house either….betwixt and between on that one.)
It’s just so much weight dragging all that old stuff around with us. Di and I talk about it all the time. I saw her today at her old house that she’s trying to clear out of stuff. She’s in her maniac stage over there as she’s supposed to close Monday on it. It’s easier to just let it go and start afresh every season, every move. I’ve just about decided that for myself now with Terry that I can afford to buy a new wardrobe every season<g>. That’s really a nice feeling. And, when you let stuff go, you open yourself up to endless new opportunities. I didn’t know that before. I thought you always had to hang onto it just in case you didn’t get a chance to have it again. Now I see that it comes around time and time again. Yeah, I’m preaching just a tiny bit here<ggg>.
Let me know how your new house is going!
Laura Beth
