A new house - a new blog

So this blog has been a lot of fun and all. But as we will not be doing our kitchen in the new house (at least not right away) muellerkitchen just doesn't fit anymore. So what do we call our new adventure? We want it to be about anything that should happen in and around the new house. So we finally decided on:

www.rockinthesuburbs.com

That is where all the new posts will be from now on. We hope you'll all come see us there. The format is still a bit canned looking at the moment. But Big E is gonna work on that.

See you all at the new blog and we hope you'll come see us in our new house!

:)

Yes, we're crazy

So the open house last weekend went OK - but we definitely didn't get the stampede we were expecting. Apparently it was "too" nice outside! People are so picky! And that leads us to our recent project. People are picky, which is understandable, but still a pain in the ass. We decided to finish our hall closet out with doors. We hadn't done this earlier because we very carefully made sure the height of the closet was standard, but we didn't think about the opening (duh). So it was 4 inches to wide for the largest standard bi-fold door. You can imagine how that felt. Oh well. So in order to fix it we had to rip out the inside piece of drywall - cut some of the drywall out of the opening and add some more structure. It's ready to paint tonight and E already has 1 door up and just has to hang the track for the second. E also wanted to replace the closet doors since they're kind of jinky and out of shape. So he got those cut down last night and ready to install tonight.

ripped out the inside wall

added new framing and drywall

did the corners and mud - reminds me of grout! yuck!

one door on - second one on tonight!

buy our condo!

Busy Busy Busy! Who knew keeping your house constantly clean could be so exhausting! Guess that only proves how dirty it has been ;)

We are doing another open house this weekend. The forecast claims it will be 60° and sunny. If that is true I think we will have a really great day - if it rains/snows/pees puppies then not so much. We invested in an email blast to local realtors trying to generate some "buzz". And I created an online flyer that I am going to send to everyone that has signed our sheet.

http://www.obsesscreate.com/Polk_email/Polk_email_2.html

I also posted that on craigslist every day this week. so wish us luck!!

house site: http://www.foliosquare.com

A very mueller kitchen on the market

So E and I had an open house over the weekend. We feel like it went really well and we have had a lot of interest expressed in the loft. We're selling the loft ourselves with the help of a MLS listing service (to get the loft in the Realtors system) www.affordablelistings.com. Selling ourselves saves us money and will hopefully let us recoop our investment in the loft. So far the Realtors have been very positive so E and I are confident that we will sell in a reasonable amount of time. Although it is alot of extra work - now that we aren't doing all these crazy projects - we're managing.

So now aside from decorating the new house in my head - we are project free! Whoo-hooo!

Movin on up!

We got the house!! We are moving to Lombard! Whoo-hoooo!

exterior image with snow...living room looking to the front of the house (nice floors)

fireplace (that works!) in the living room

new kitchen

downstairs guest bath with shower

upstairs front bedroom for future expansion

first floor guest bedroom!!!

master bedroom second floor

Holy cow - where did February go!?

Apparently losing time is going around!

We did finish the bathroom and we got the loft listed for sale! Whoo-hooo! To all the friends that we haven't seen, spoken to or replyed to, it's nothing personal - we have been incredibly busy!

Check out the condo page: http://www.foliosquare.com

and here are photos of the finished bath!

I hate grouting

Last night I got the first wall grouted. Boy do I hate grouting! Isn't science smart enough to make something that will only go between the tiles and won't stick to the fronts? Going to tackle the big wall in the shower tonight then I'll have the last largest wall to finish once we get the rest of the tile.

Bad news is that Sunday night we realized we are short about 20 tiles - so I stopped where I was. We bought a common product, but of course when E went to get more last night they were out. He's calling the tile store owner today to find out about more coming (they had it in the computer so maybe it'll be there this week).




Meanwhile we're trying to follow the National Body Challenge on discovery - free gym membership, but the meals are a little unrealistic to make - as if i'm going to cook anything that complex!!! Oh well - maybe we'll be able to drop 10 or 15 before Mexico and my good friend's upcoming wedding in May.