Almost Ready!!

We're so close we can almost taste it. Last night Katie and her mom and brother spent hours cleaning all of the woodwork in the house to get rid of the tobacco and smoke residue from the previous occupant. After the woodwork was cleaned we spent about an hour putting up curtains on all of the windows (except for one of the kitchen ones because I apparently can't count and didn't get enough). This afternoon when I get off work I'm excited to head over there and replace all of the old, grimy, now paint covered outlets and switches with new ones. After that there's two more light fixtures to replace and it's ready to move in. Katie also spent a ton of time last night replacing all of the heating vent and return covers with the ones that were there before but have since been repainted so they look new again. Everything is so exciting!!

I am still amazed every day by the amount of help that people have given, everyone wants to help. Emily has been there every night helping us paint. Alex and Drew have helped out on several occasions and have stopped by just to see what's happening even more times. Charlie was a huge help with installing the garage door openers and taking the kitchen cabinets out. It's just so amazing.

I'm hoping to get some pictures from Katie or Leif soon so that everyone can see what's going on and understand how much has changed since we closed a little over a week ago. It's hard to believe that all this work has happened in just 11 days. It's been transformed from very dirty and hard to look at to very pretty and very livable.

As always if anyone wants to stop by feel free, we're there a lot.

Thanks again to everyone who helped so much making this transformation happen so smoothly and quickly.

-Phil