I know there haven’t been too many posts with pictures lately but most of the time I either wasn’t sure where the camera was or I was just too busy to worry with taking them. I do wish that we had taken a few more but too late now…probably better to not fully remember all of the chaos anyway. 😉
Because the staircase here is so narrow, we have not been able to get our box spring upstairs. The mattress was a challenge in itself but at least had a bit of flexibility. There was also a couch which have us some trouble getting up the stairs but we did actually manage to get it moved up there…getting it down will probably be another story all together but we don’t plan on moving it anytime soon anyway.
After taking the railing off the staircase also didn’t work, we decided taking the box spring apart was our only hope. Either it would come apart easily and we could figure out how to reassemble it and use it…or we’d need to buy a new bed because we destroyed the thing and it didn’t fit back together. Hubby and his dad took on this project while us girls continued cleaning and unpacking…and also did a bit of just dazing out while sitting at the dining table because we were just worn out. The guys did an amazing job of getting it back together though and it actually ended up being really great that they did because it was creaking for a while but now it’s sounding perfect again and basically like new…
What else did we do today? Well, we made another run to the house to pack up more small stuff. We have finally managed to get almost everything here to the house and we also brought over the kitchen which we had in our first apartment here (you usually have to buy kitchens when you rent an apartment – they are just an empty room with the connections otherwise) but we’ve had it in our garage and we had a little water damage so the kitchen is not looking so hot these days. We thought we might be able to salvage part of it but after closer inspection, it looks like we won’t be able to after all. So instead of ordering a trash container at the old house which we thought about previously, we just decided to bring the kitchen pieces here and throw them in the container we already have and then fill up the rest with whatever junk we have around here and boxes we’ve destroyed during the move.
All of our clothes are also moved now although we still have to unload some of them from the Defender and hopefully they will all fit into the built-in closets in one of the rooms upstairs. Otherwise we’re probably going to have to get creative…the previous renters of our old house did leave a hanging clothes rack which we’ve been using to dry laundry but worst case we’ll just use that for overage and hope it all fits with that added space.
Most of the old house has also been cleaned now. It’s totally vacuumed and the bathrooms are clean…so we just need to finish painting the room downstairs and steam clean the carpets…and we’re very much hoping that we will get all of our deposit back. We will also need to repair the carpet again from the doggo but I’m thinking we may run out of time for it so we might end up having to give him a bit of the deposit for that work.
