As promised yesterday, here are some photos of the Storage Room which we have named “The Pantry”. This was one of 3 main selling features that led us to buy this house.
The shelves are very sturdy, although they are unfinished. We’ve discussed possibly painting them, but right now that is a fairly low priority since no one will see the room but us. As long as everything in there is clean and stable, that’s really all we need. The flooring is very nice ceramic tile.
The number 1 main selling point of the house was the 3 season room on the back. It is an add-on to the original home, but it was done very well. The roof ties in nicely, and the room is very sturdy. It measures 15.5' wide by 11.6' deep. The carpet looked blue to me before, but now it looks more green in the daylight. We expect to use this room a lot. While it isn't air-conditioned, there is a large ceiling fan, and I think that with that on, and the A/C in the house on, it should stay cool enough out there - especially since it is on the north side of the house so it really doesn't get the direct sun all that much. There is a heater on the wall which will be helpful in the late fall and early spring. It is hard to tell how much we will be able to use it in winter. The windows are sliders, and the right half of each one opens. Here are some photos of "The Porch":
Our plan as of now is to furnish this “Porch” with a table and chairs for meals and games, and then set up a seating area with wicker furniture. We are considering a loveseat and 2 chairs with a couple of side tables for lamps.
This is how the porch looks from the back yard:
The 3rd big selling item was the 2-car garage. Sorry - no photos of that yet. Picture an empty 2 car garage and you will pretty much have the image in your head. The front wall of this garage has paneling (like the Pantry), but the side walls are white. We plan to have those freshly painted. Then we will either build or put up shelving for storage. Hubby will also have a work bench at the front. There is a people door as well that goes out the side of the house, and that needs to be painted as well.
Today's tasks for me involved continuing work in the kitchen - putting liner in all the drawers and starting to work on the cabinets (until I ran out of liner). Then I took apart our vacuum cleaner and cleaned it all out. It had been used by workers in my parent's house, and it was clogged with a fine white powder. After cleaning it all, I swept the Porch. While I was working inside, Hubby was cleaning the garage. He also installed a new deadbolt lock on the front door and fixed the lock on the Porch door which wasn't locking all the way.
In some ways it doesn't seem like we got much done, but we are taking our time so that we don't burn out. We had lunch there and then headed to Lowe's for what turned out to be a series of frustrations. Right now, we are not happy with Lowe's Customer Service - especially in their flooring department. Today there were 2 clerks there, but they were so busy chatting with each other that they didn't seem to have time to wait on us. We ended up leaving the department due to their inattention and will probably take our carpet business elsewhere. I had already scheduled to have the house measured for carpet on Monday afternoon, but we will probably cancel that now. We ran into something similar in the paint department with 2 employees who were so engrossed in their discussion that it seemed an imposition for them to wait on us. One clerk was interrupted in talking with Hubby by a phone call, and instead of returning to Hubby's conversation once the interruption ended, he went back to talking with his co-worker. Likewise we walked away from that department with some of our questions unanswered.
Somehow we still managed to spend over $200 on miscellany, and we didn't even have the energy to get everything on our list.
My allergies have been driving me crazy for 2 days. It is hard to tell how much is from the blooming trees and how much is because there was a dog living in the house. We are not getting the carpets cleaned because we're replacing them all except the Porch. I may end up getting the Porch carpet cleaned because of the dog.
More sleep tonight, more work tomorrow....
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