Home Improvements

We got home from Las Vegas and immediately refocused on getting our house ready to sell. And I do mean immediately. The painters were able to start their work while we were still away, which meant that we came home to discover that the top floor of our house was unusable. Furniture was piled in the middle of each room, showers were taped off (they re-grouted for us), and plastic sheets covered everything. Not something you want to come home to in the middle of the night.

We spent a fitful night on the couch in the basement, being woken up periodically by the howls of our attention-deprived cat. After that we were at least able to get our bed back, though furniture has been shuffling around for the past couple of weeks. And I've used every shower in the house at one point.

We're close to done with the home improvements we needed to make before putting the house on the market, though. The cracks are all repaired. The lights are fixed. The walls are painted. The carpet is mostly installed. Now we're just waiting on carpet for the stairs and a steam cleaning of the basement. Then we need to go through and do a deep clean (dusting and mopping and all that fun stuff). But we're very close to actually getting our house on the market. I just hope that other people think the house looks as nice as we do and want to buy it quickly. It would be nice to not have to carry the double mortgage for too long.