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February 4, 2009
The house gods giveth...
I can't believe we closed on this house a year ago. It doesn't seem like nearly that long. In fact, it feels like we just got here. And while this is home, I'm not sure it really feels like home yet.
That totally made no sense.
I think what I meant to say is that while no other place comes to mind first when I think of the word home, sometimes it still takes me a while to picture this place that we actually live in. It's beautiful, but not particularly personalized to us. The kids have marked up the walls and the carpet is started to look more worn in some places than others, but it's not really homey. It's big and bright and airy, but if you asked me which of our homes was my dream home, I'd still say the house in Houston, and I'm not even sure why that is. There are a lot of things about this house that are nicer than the Houston house (although it, too, was beautiful). That house made a big impression, though, for all that we only lived in it for six months.
All of these house thoughts are coming to the surface because we reached the end of our year's warranty on Saturday. We've had drafty doors resealed, a leak in the garage repaired, some cracks filled and painted. Today was our last day with workers popping in and out, fixing up the last of issues. We're on our own in this house, for the first time in a long time.
We got lucky today. While the cabinet repair guy was here fixing something in the kitchen, we asked him what it would cost to install the two cabinets I got for the nook in the living room. I bought them months ago, but didn't want to pay the store what they wanted for what I thought was a simple job. Then I asked a friend for a quote, asked a handyman who was here doing another repair, talked to my dad and brother to see what was involved, and came to the conclusion that I should have just paid the store and been done with it. In fact, we decided to call them and see if they would still come out, I was just waiting til we got back from vacation to set it up.
So I asked the cabinet repair guy, on a whim. And he offered to install it for less than half of what the store wanted, with no hemming and hawing about how complicated it would be, and we can't do it that way, and no why would you want to do that?'s. And he could do it right. Now. And then he did, and he did a great job, and I have one more weight off my back.
At least, I did until I found the broken window in Rex's office. Did I mention the house is four freaking days out of warranty?
Posted by me at February 4, 2009 7:33 PM
Comments
Congrats on a year if your new home! I know the adjusting can take a while...
I like your new color theme.
Posted by: Beck at February 5, 2009 2:15 PM
I think you're just glad the orange isn't burning your retinas anymore :)
Posted by: Becky 
at February 5, 2009 2:25 PM