Settling In

We've been sleeping in our bedroom for the last 12 nights and its rather nice.  The heat works, the house is pretty well sealed, and I found the feather comforter from my college years to make the bedroom extra cozy.

I had an amazing shopping experience at Bed Bath & Beyond.  Someone with my exact design color palette returned a bunch of high end, thermal, room-darkening curtains.  I collected all the half price curtains and rods I needed and paired them with their full price partners.  Curtains for the living room, dining room and bedroom for a fraction of the anticipated price.

Hanging them has taken a bit of time, but the list of To-Dos is shrinking.

The master bedroom has gone from done to more done to lived in.


The dining room has fast become my favorite room, with plenty of family dinners around the table (pork and apples, scalloped potatoes and veg - yum!).

Inside is not the only place changing fast - the yard has undergone dramatic transformation.  Uncle Jim and Cousin Jimmy were over with giant tree chopping equipment.  The nasty tree overshadowing the entire facade of the house is gone and Saturday Russ and I spent the day clearing weeds, shrubs, and leaves.  With each bag of yard waste the house looked less haunted. I'm not sure whether it add or detracted to our Halloween appeal for trick-or-treaters!

We had a Mom-crashing incident both Saturday and Sunday.  She was a huge help finishing the yard on Saturday after I lost steam.  I can marathon ... I'm not so strong for hours of manual labor though!  Sunday, she was back to get curtains up in the kitchen and sunroom.  The curtains in the sunroom were necessary once the tree was removed.  The kitchen was pure (and needed) motherly-touch.

Tonight, the living room was set up courtesy of High-Tech Electrical.  Russ had one of his buddies over to help get our pull-out couch up the narrow stairs and the living room couch and rug situated.

Next up for me is the little cupboard in the dining room.  I sanded, primed and painted it yesterday.  It needs a second coat and the shelves painted.  I think I'll use the space for family photos.  We certainly don't need any more storage space!

Next up for Russ is the powder room.  It's components are currently in the entry way ...