Well we are now fully moved in as of Wednesday night and have turned in the keys for Florence. No going back. It feels good to have the move behind us and not being paying double mortgage!
We had a few friends over for a Sunday afternoon visit, which really made it feel like home here, and the pets are settling in. We have two weeks respite before they come with the sledge hammers to start the work on the back part of the house. We have our mini-kitchen for the construction phase more or less planned. #lotsoftakeout The move wasn't the smoothest. One particularly quirky parts of the house is the original staircase, which is 28 inches wide at the top of the stairs....... And at its narrowest point, the hide-a-bed couch was 29 inches. The elliptical at its narrowest is 29 inches. There was no hope for the box spring. We knew we had issues beforehand. We measured. The movers tried with the couch but we knew. You can't will the walls wider by an inch. For the elliptical we completely deconstructed it to the smallest base parts. We have yet to reconstruct it, but have lots of little baggies with post-it notes (step 7 screws, step 8 bolts, etc..). No problem! For the box spring and couch, we had to commit to potentially completely destroying them and hope for the best. This Old House has a great youtube on how to cut your box spring in half. We sawed it in half, brought it upstairs and more or less put it back together. A bed skirt hides the mess. No problem! The hide-a-bed was a bit more complicated. I debated selling it, but there isn't much of a market for a used hide-a-bed and we'd need to solve a bed for guests. It is one of the few pieces of furniture we bought new. Figured we had nothing to lose so decided to cut off the top! Why not?! The fabric on the back of the couch is surprisingly easy to pull up. We drew a straight line across the seven pieces of wood that held it all together and started to saw. Probably took 15 minutes to work through the pieces (thanks Abe for all the muscle!). We pushed it up the stairs and right into the front bedroom. And then we just left it in pieces for 24 hours, contemplating our next step. A trip to the hardware store introduced me to Mending Plates! Perfect! We predrilled the holes and just patched is all back together in less than 30 minutes. No problem! A few staples on the back fabric and good as new. No one will ever know. And that couch isn't moving again ever, For me the lessons was that I overthought it all. I'd wake up at 2am, wondering how we were going to get that @#$#couch or the %$ elliptical up the stairs. I should have trusted that we would figure it out.
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