More Moving

Days 4, 5, and 6

Not too much happened during these days as far as unpacking goes (or at least not a lot that I took pictures of!).  I had a lot of computer work to catch up on so I spent much of my time doing that. 

Day 4: I headed to Hot Springs for my "baby" cousin's graduation from high school so nothing was accomplished in the house

Day 5: The specialty movers unpacked the tv and hooked up the washer and dryer, AT&T U-Verse was installed and my brother finished up pulling carpet. His sweet girlfriend came to help so we arranged furniture AND pulled lots of staples out of the floor!  Followed by the first dinner cooked in the kitchen!  I also arranged the laundry room and storage closet this day but it's too hard to take pictures of it. 

Day 6: I spent much of the day running errands and getting our class reunion invite ready to "go live", moving boxes and packing paper to the garage and I spent A LOT of the day staring at paint first on the computer and then from the chips I picked up from Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore. 

temporarily arranged living room

The specialty movers came to unpack the tv today AND the U-Verse lady came to set up cable and internet.

That's right, I organized all of these paint chips according to color and shade.  From there, I cut out the colors that were  definite nos and then walked away for the day. 

Prioritize to Organize

Day 3

Today I went on an unpacking and organization spree.  I seriously unpacked from 7am-6pm and from there went grocery shopping.  Somehow I didn't get home until 9pm!

Kitchen cabinets all organized with my aqua and white dishes! I'm feeling extremely lucky that they look so great in our kitchen since there's nowhere for them to hide!

New Refrigerator!

coffee bar in the right hand corner, baking station in the middle, barware  on the left hand side and what you don't see is a ton of organization in the drawers and lower cabinets

beginnings of glassware and microwave station...yes that is a ton of booze- it took me awhile to figure out what to do with it so it sat on the counter for a few days!

semi organized pantry 

again

beginnings of bathroom organization, you'll see similar pictures for a few days.  this was a toughie for me!

beginnings of organized towel closet

what do I do with this?!

beginnings of organized master closet

suit and dress organization

not making much progress on Russell's side!

towel etc closet looking better, pile in the floor looking worse

...and worse

ahh! but this looks better!

and so does this...

and this!

box pile is getting smaller- all of those closet in tupperware containers are out of season clothes

and these are things waiting on drawers!

So many boxes!

Day 2

What a day it was! Our amazing movers arrived at 8am on the dot and began unloading the truck into the house.  Luckily, our truck driver remembered where much of our stuff went so I didn't have to do too much directing. I had also labeled each room with painters tape so they could navigate box placement better.  In addition my brother, Hunter, arrived to begin removing the carpet from the "kid" bedrooms.  As clean as the family before was, I just can't do someone else's carpet. 

As soon as the movers finished (by 11:30!), Leslie and I went on a search for the perfect refrigerator.  It took some looking but the refrigerator was found!  You'll see pictures in Day 3. 

Here are the pictures!

Nermal wasn't sure what to think about all this stuff!

So much packing paper...this is just from the dishes box! I dove into unpacking the kitchen as soon as the boxes landed.  I can't live without an organized kitchen!

That's right! That's a bed in the dining room.  We decided this was the best place for it since  it will be the guest bed but that bedroom has no floors at the moment!

bedroom minus carpet

another bedroom minus carpet

embarrassingly, these boxes are all clothes (except for the 2 flat ones on the right hand side)

It's hard to believe all of these boxes came from our small apartment!

A special thank you to my brother and sister for all of your help!  So nice to be close to you both!

If Walls Could Talk

So...I'm a little behind schedule in posting what has been happening in AR.  I was going to try and summarize the week in one post, but it's just not possible!  Look forward to many more posts in the next few days!

Day 1

I arrived around 9pm with my little sister.  Russell was still in Memphis waiting on phase 2 of moving trucks. I was really thankful Leslie came to stay with me!  Russell and I were so fortunate to have bought a house from a very sweet family. Walking into the empty house, I felt like the house missed it's family as much as the family missed it's house.  I know this house holds memories of lots of happy noise! I immediately promised it that we would fill it with lots of love, a new family and many visitors. 

You'll notice lots of light in these pics because I actually took these on the morning of Day 2 before the truck arrived!

I am now realizing I haven't actually taken a picture of the outside of the house!  Use your imagination- white siding, shaker shingles, black shutters and black front door.  Lots of trees :)

Here's the tour...

from the front door, take a right into the dining room

from the dining room, you walk through into the kitchen (that's Nermal in the corner.  He's the previous owners' cat who stayed with me for a week)

 

pantry

from the kitchen take a right and another right, it leads you to the laundry room and storage closet 

if you take a right then a left,  then its guest room.  Here's the closet

...guest room bathroom

guest room- I LOVE the windows in here!

 If you would've taken a left from the kitchen, you would've entered the living room...

door to kitchen

fireplace, bookshelves, and door to the sun porch

paneling and fireplace

french doors to screened porch

view of the yard

view of the house from the porch and you can also see the deck

continuing through the living room and back to the front door you find the staircase

and under the staircase is this little powder room

at the top of the stairs to the left is the multipurpose room

multipurpose room closet

just past the multipurpose room is this "kid" bathroom

hallway to the bedrooms

"kid" bedroom 1

"kid" bedroom 1 alternate view

next door is "kid" bedroom 2

at the end of the hallway is the master bedroom

through the door you can see in the master bedroom is the master bathroom

and inside the bathroom is the master closet

master closet pic 2

master closet pic 3

We truly love our new house! Get ready to view the chaos in the next few days!