About 200 boxes of different shapes and sizes were piled around our place. Each day less and less remained in our kitchen for us to eat from, or even to eat, as we packed crockery and finished all the food in the refrigerator and freezer.
On the day of the move, all went well, except for one mishap: one of the four movers accidentally let slip his corner of the piano. I couldn't bear to look, as I heard the dull tinkle of a few notes inside the piano.
We left the buyers an exceptionally clean residence, cleaning it for two hours, with two women's help, after the movers took all our stuff away in 8 hours.
But there WAS a dent in the floorboard where the corner of the piano keyboard had hit the floor. I would have to wait until move-in day to take a look at the piano and see if there was any damage.
The next five days were spent still in our area of Crystal City, but at the local Hampton Inn. We managed to catch up on our sleep, rest up a bit from our physical exertion and stress.
All went well on the day of the move, with me directing the traffic through the back yard and into the house that way. Furniture and boxes had the number of the room they were meant to go into, and most things went upstairs and round corners quite well, so there weren't too many last minute decisions or disappointments!
Here's the view through our dining room to our glorious sun room.
One of our favourite places: our sunroom, where we can watch and hear the birds. No traffic noise, nor jets taking off. Tranquility!
The evening before the move Walter and I painted our respective dens. Just enough time to paint one coat... but that seems enough to cover the garish 'nursery' colours that had been there previously! My den, partly finished, below.
My den finished.
Walter in his den, from my 'studio'. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to paint over the hideous mauve on my studio walls!
In the sitting room we have a REAL mantelpiece, with a WORKING fireplace!
View of piano in sitting room.
More views of sitting room and piano...
Unfortunately the left lower corner of the keyboard got damaged, the laquer was chipped, when I examined the piano. Probably not much we can do, but I'll be checking with the piano company.
Here's the attic (our master bedroom suite), before we moved our bed up there.
And here are two photos of our bedroom after the move in.... all we did was take off the 'sleigh' brass at the foot of the bed so that we could have the bed this way round, and thus manage to have our night tables (and bedside lights left by previous owner!)...
Now all I need to do is heal from my first of two hand surgeries to take out an arthritic bone and fill the space with tendon from my forearm!!! (Left hand in ?September?)
Thank goodness I managed to sort out kitchen contents, my den and my studio plus storing all extra glassware, setting up the linen closets, raked all the leaves in the garden to expose the soil, and a few other things before I had my surgery on June 23rd!!
