I almost did this post at three in the morning. I couldn't sleep.
I toss and turn for hours every night. I'm a night-owl, by nature, but lately I can't sleep. It got me thinking that maybe this is my anxiety acting out again, only in a different way. I know I'm so excited, stressed, happy, frazzled, fired-up and filled with anticipation with this whole house thing but I can't sleep.
We're moving-in this summer and it won't be done. To most people that's just fine. But I lived in construction when we lived in Michigan and I know I can never do that again. Not because I don't want to. (Does anyone?!) ;) It's way too hard on the nerves! I mean, it'll be a good-ways done but there will still be MUCH to do. I'm not complaining because I'm so excited but I do worry a little about the construction that will be left to do.
Mark says it will be painted. The walls and the floors. (We're putting flooring in later and that's fine). As long as we're at that stage and I have a bathroom (tub, sink, toilet), even without the kitchen, I'll probably be fine. I just feel like we have a long-ways to go to get there. But I trust him completely. If he says it'll be there, it'll be there.
I haven't even figured out what I'm doing with the kitchen. I'd kind of like to figure it out as I go, so I'll be the most happy with it. (Which is a good thing since that's what we'll be doing!) I don't want cupboards. At least, not upper cupboards - just upper shelves. So we have a pantry for most of the stuff. I'll just need some shelves for cups and some drawers and a place for pans/silverware. The necessities.
I'm fired up though! Yesterday, I found a milk-glass light fixture for above my kitchen sink! I've got to go out there and see if it'll look right hanging there. I love it! The part I love the most? It cost me a buck! (I just went to take a picture of it and pulled it out of the bag to find it was broken! Man. I had piled so many bags of junk in the bargain cruiser, yesterday, that I wasn't paying attention to what was what! (Shrug). I'm very disappointed but for a buck, I can stand to live with it - exactly why I don't pay a ton of money for my good junk! Everything and anything can break. And lately, I've been finding that the things I like the most have been breaking (they're also the things I've paid the least for, under a buck) - maybe a reminder not to get attached to things. I'll just look for another. Oh man. I loved this one though! I'm extremely sentimental and I get attached so easily but I also move-on when they break. They're only material. Note: It's broken on the very bottom. The part you would see should it be hanging up.)
And I also found a light fixture that I really like for fifty cents yesterday. I know! It's not very pretty right now - I need to paint it white. It's dark brown right now. I'm hoping to find similar ones and then I'll figure out where to put them - maybe in my Project Studio. I love this style light though! Edited to add: My daughter's catching on, "Mom, why do you want everything white?!", she asked me yesterday. :)
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This all brings back so many memories when we built our house. We moved in with no shower/tub. The livingroom and 2 upstairs bedrooms were not done. The guys were putting in a temporary kitchen the day we were moving in. That temporary kitchen lasted 10 years. You could say that I am a patient woman concerning somethings. Our yard was mud, absolutely no grass only over the septic field. No curtains on our windows it was like living in a fish bowl. But I wouldn't change all that for the world. Would I do it again? No way, once was enough but the memories are wonderful. Congrats on your new home and have fun decorating it.
Thank you Judy!
Now you've got me worried that my *temporary* kitchen may be *temporary* for 10 years! Lol. ;)
I know we'll have mud though, for a long time to come, because we have endless clearing of trees ahead of us. But I suppose, so it goes. Everyone makes it through this construction one-way or another.
I don't mind everything else so much. I'm just concerned with the drywall mud/dust with Carter's asthma. Paint may not be that good either but at least we can open the windows. We're going to try to get past the dust though before moving-in.
The rest are just *details*, the fun stuff! :) I'm very excited, we're planning to move-in in a month. We're just going to get as far along with the project as we can by then! (Here is crossing my fingers).
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