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New year, new floor
Jan. 8th, 2013 12:34 pmI think I've mentioned that one of our "Christmas presents" to ourselves was the decision to get the hateful green carpet ripped up and replaced with hardwood flooring sooner rather than later. We're dipping into our retirement fund to do it, but what the heck. After sixteen years of living with a carpet that was pet-stained when we got here, I think we're due.
So Phase I of the process of readying the living room for this exercise was completed this morning when the piano movers came and took Mr. Kranch&Bach away to piano camp for the duration. I expect this to be the next to the last time we move this bad boy -- the last time will be in our retirement home.
There he is, all bundled up in his overcoat and on the bus
This weekend my cousin comes to pick up the blue furniture -- that stuff my mother thought was worth a bazillion bucks but turns out to be worth bupkis. I'm glad someone wants to keep it in the family. I've been its reluctant custodian for a decade. This cousin had relatively limited family contact as a child because her father, my uncle, died young and her mother naturally gravitated to her own side of the family in Maryland where they had lived. Linda is trying to pick up her Detter ancestry now and didn't get much of a shot at the family swag, such as it was. I'm delighted that she'll have her great-grandmother's furnture. Better her than me.
Once that's done, we turn our attention to books and books and books. Our living room is 23 feet long, punctuated by five feet of marble mantel, etc. The mantel is flanked on either side by 6' tall bookshelves -- I estimate 60-70 linear feet of books at minimum, and probably more. They'll get schlepped upstairs for the duration, a few boxes at a time, and will be unpacked and stacked in the now-empty guest room so that we can use the same boxes for transport again. I am also hoping that I can find a couple large big lads to move a big honking ugly bureau up there to make a little more lebensraum in the living room. Even a 23' long living room gets to feeling cramped with 18 feet of bookshelf, two overstuffed love seats, a big bureau and a 7 foot grand piano in it. (I'd trash the bureau except that it's useful for storing stuff.)
In another couple weeks I'm going to order two more things for the living room. First, I'll get a new cover for the piano because the one I inherited from my sister is starting to rip and also has pee and barf stains from the four cats she had at one time. Second, I'll get a large and very inexpensive polypropylene area rug. After spending $$$$ on the floor we have no money for a fancy schmancy carpet.
It's weird to see that big open space where the piano used to be, though. Dolly and her corner chair look quite forlorn.
So Phase I of the process of readying the living room for this exercise was completed this morning when the piano movers came and took Mr. Kranch&Bach away to piano camp for the duration. I expect this to be the next to the last time we move this bad boy -- the last time will be in our retirement home.
There he is, all bundled up in his overcoat and on the bus
This weekend my cousin comes to pick up the blue furniture -- that stuff my mother thought was worth a bazillion bucks but turns out to be worth bupkis. I'm glad someone wants to keep it in the family. I've been its reluctant custodian for a decade. This cousin had relatively limited family contact as a child because her father, my uncle, died young and her mother naturally gravitated to her own side of the family in Maryland where they had lived. Linda is trying to pick up her Detter ancestry now and didn't get much of a shot at the family swag, such as it was. I'm delighted that she'll have her great-grandmother's furnture. Better her than me.
Once that's done, we turn our attention to books and books and books. Our living room is 23 feet long, punctuated by five feet of marble mantel, etc. The mantel is flanked on either side by 6' tall bookshelves -- I estimate 60-70 linear feet of books at minimum, and probably more. They'll get schlepped upstairs for the duration, a few boxes at a time, and will be unpacked and stacked in the now-empty guest room so that we can use the same boxes for transport again. I am also hoping that I can find a couple large big lads to move a big honking ugly bureau up there to make a little more lebensraum in the living room. Even a 23' long living room gets to feeling cramped with 18 feet of bookshelf, two overstuffed love seats, a big bureau and a 7 foot grand piano in it. (I'd trash the bureau except that it's useful for storing stuff.)
In another couple weeks I'm going to order two more things for the living room. First, I'll get a new cover for the piano because the one I inherited from my sister is starting to rip and also has pee and barf stains from the four cats she had at one time. Second, I'll get a large and very inexpensive polypropylene area rug. After spending $$$$ on the floor we have no money for a fancy schmancy carpet.
It's weird to see that big open space where the piano used to be, though. Dolly and her corner chair look quite forlorn.
