Electrolicious

A few weeks ago, Gwen came to rework our living room while The Seattle Times watched. Here’s the resulting article, and of course Miss Sassafras plays a role:

Can you believe we’re STILL waiting for our house to close? (And STILL paying our mortgage on it.) Our buyers have had a hell of a time getting their financing (I guess American banks don’t like dealing with European buyers) and every week it’s supposed to happen “this week” and every week it doesn’t.
Supposedly this [...]

Lots of snuggling into our new place this week and totally loving it. I can hardly even describe the lifestyle difference … for two and a half years we’ve had a home that was a metaphorical island surrounded by driving time. Now we’re back in a neighborhood where I walk down the front steps and [...]

Our move was easy! We had tons of help from friends on Saturday, and the whole thing was over in about 3 hours. Awesomeness!
Now is the interesting part: unpacking a 3br house into a 1br flat. We got rid of a lot of stuff, but we just keep paring down. As I’m sifting through all [...]

Today we painted. Well, first we had breakfast with our traveling musician friend Rara, and then we painted with the expert help of the fabulous Dawn.
In terms of interior decorating, Dre and I have decided to sort of divide the new place into halves. This could be interesting and/or distasterous. Dre said today, “I like [...]

If you’re interested in real estate porn, here you go. Here are the before pics.

We got the keys to our new place last night. Whew! More later.

So, our new place was supposed to close a week ago Friday. We didn’t expect that they’d make that date, and they didn’t. On Wednesday, we showed up at 8:30 for a walkthrough, having been told the conversion was “almost done.” Uh, they were nowhere near done, but they said “We’re working overtime to make [...]

Just a logistical update for those who are curious: our house is being inspected this week, and hopefully we’ll be all confirmed on Friday for a 9/14 closing. As for the condo, we’re aiming to move in next weekend, but of course it’s contingent on the builder being done with all the remodeling work. Supposedly [...]

So much to say, and so much mucus to try to say it through. My light cold of yesterday has turned into a full-blown phlegm disaster today, but I did want to share this: we got two offers on our house and we’ve accepted one of them. It’s from Frenchman and his British wife which [...]