Unpacking

I'm making my way through bins and digging out of mounds of packing paper and bubble wrap! Gosh we have a lot of stuff, haha. Well, not really any more than the average person, it just seems like it after living in such a tiny space with very little stuff the past 9 months. Why in the world do I have a dozen or more coffee cups? LOL. We have started a couple of bins to either take to Goodwill/Salvation Army or have a garage sale.

I'm officially exhausted. I was just going to take Friday off work, but ended up taking off yesterday, too. My phone app showed that on Friday I walked 3 miles and 13 flights. We hired that same moving company, who moved all our stuff over here, to help with the heavy furniture stuff. Not as impressed with the 2 guys that came this time, compared to last time. If they had been the ones who moved us here, I wouldn't have used them again. First off they were 2 hours late. There was a 2 hour minimum charge. We didn't think it would take the whole 2 hours and if it didn't DH was just going to have them move some bins in, but since they were kind of annoying, after they got done in 90 minutes, we just let them go. Plus, he charged me 2 hours travel time - at the same $90/hr moving rate! I get that everyone around here charges travel time to come "way out here" but most do it at like $100 or $120 total, they don't charge their working rate for travel. Plus it's not 2 hours round trip from the city. It's an hour and 20 minutes RT, at the most. But, they got all the heavy stuff in AND up stairs, so it was worth hiring out.

It is so nice to finally have some space and room to move around and get to our things. There are quite a few bins I haven't been able to unpack yet, because we don't have closet shelves yet. DH will be making those, so for now the stuff is still in bins. Mostly just clothing and stuff we haven't gotten into in 9 months anyway. I do have lots of linen storage (2 linen closets in master bathroom and one in upstairs guest bath) so I was able to get all my linens stuff unpacked. Most all the kitchen stuff is unpacked, except for food.....again, no pantry shelves yet, which is where all the dry food is going. We just took the little bookcase we had put our food in in the shop and set it in the pantry for now and I moved the food stuffs to there. Having a full sized refrigerator is heaven. Having a sink in the cooking area (compared to having to go in to the bathroom in the shop) is even better. Last night I made our first real dinner meal in a kitchen, in 9 months. Just tuna casserole, but sure beat pot pies. I don't care if I ever see another pot pie again.

I also can't unpack 2-3 bins that have china hutch stuff. In our original house we had a huge built in china hutch, as well as a free standing one. I only have the smaller freestanding one and all the dishes and such that were in the built in (2 1/2 years ago) are still in bins. I have room to put another hutch or credenza in my dining room, so that will have to be a future purchase. I'd either like a farmhouse hutch for the other corner of dining room, or a credenza type cabinet for under the window. If I can come across something for a farmhouse hutch on craigslist, I'll probably get one of those.

I went into the city yesterday and ordered our living room sofa, loveseat and recliner. It's supposed to take 2 weeks to get here. Hopefully it's not much longer than that. I got it at Ashley Home Store. It really isn't very expensive, but we aren't hard on furniture now, with just the two of us, so I think it will last us at least several years. Total for all 3 pieces, including delivery charge was $1200. It was on sale online, but quite a bit more in the store. The guy matched the online pricing. We didn't bring in our old couch and recliner from the shop. Everything got so dusty in there over the months (construction dust, mostly).It was already an old couch to begin with, added dust and the dog slept on it all this time. We didn't even want to bring it into the clean new house since we aren't keeping it. The recliner has been busted seat springs since before we moved a couple of years ago. We shouldn't even have brought it with us then.  I still need more furniture, but that will have to wait until we have the money. I need a queen mattress set for one of the guest beds (the bear log bed) and a loveseat, chair and coffee table for the upstairs sitting loft.

The guy building our farmhouse style dining table has gotten quite far on it. He had us come over to answer a few questions. I didn't know he had even started it, but it's all ready to screw together and stain.

Well, that's all I got for an update, for now. There is still a bunch to do, but we'll get to it.