07:23 Jul 14 2009
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Ahhhhhhh, finally, I am completely out of the old house and into my new beautiful 1930 Country French home! I LOVE all the glass French doors and windows. This is the largest home I have ever lived in; I think I am rattling around in here a bit though. But, it’s a good rattle!
Who would have ever thought that moving only 3 houses away from where I did live would be the hardest move I have ever made? Whew, but it has been, it’s been extremely rough.
There have been a few times when I thought I needed my head examined for wanting this place so much, but it suits me, it really does. This home and I seem to have been made for each other, in spite of all the ups and downs that have come along to stall, delay and cause one headache after another, but it’s worth it, it truly is.
This house was built in 1930 and when I say it’s huge, trust me, it is! I have watched this house ever since we moved out here to this little peaceful village of Utica Ohio. It went up for sell a little over 2 years ago because the owner at that time was headed for foreclosure. We couldn’t swing it back then, but man, if only we could have gotten it when it did go into foreclosure it would have been a steal! Anyway, it sold after it went into foreclosure and I thought, oh well, better luck next time. I just figured it meant that something else was out there that might be better or at the very least just as nice…Well, about 3 months after it sold and no one was moving into it I noticed the for sale sign once again. I couldn’t believe it, I had another shot at it and this time we were in a better position to get it.
Turns out the new owner’s wife had an accident a few days after they bought it, she broke her hip and leg in several places. Since this home has all the bedrooms and the full bath upstairs she could no longer climb the stairs they decided to put it up for sale. Please don’t get me wrong here, I feel awful the lady was hurt so bad, but I am so happy to see a lifelong dream to live in a house this age and this style come true for me…is that so horrible? Anyway, at the point we were finally able to get the house it had stood empty for nearly 2 years, it needs a lot of TLC!
Not only did it need a major cleaning and repainting we found many problems with leaks, and wiring issues and botched repairs that needed to be fixed, it held up the overall move and set me back on my time schedule. What should have only taken about two weeks to do ended up taking me over a month. One of the cleaning jobs was to tackle the stove top, not the ovens mind you, although they were in pretty bad need as well, but just the stove top alone ended up taking me 5 days to clean. Hopefully that gives you an overall picture of just how filthy the owners from 2 years ago really were. On the 3rd day of cleaning on the stove top I was in tears. I would wake up at 8 in the morning and start cleaning by 9 and I didn’t stop until 8 or 9 at night, 11 to 12 hours a day for 5 days cleaning a stove top! It took 3 more days to do the built in ovens. Three days to paint the living room, 2 and half days to paint the kitchen, and as for my formal dining room that looks like something out of one of those glamorous old classic movies, we haven’t been able to even start painting yet. There was a leak in the ceiling that had to be repaired and the contractors have been promising to return for a month to finish the patched ceiling after the repair was made but of course we haven’t seen them again and we can’t paint in there until the ceiling is done.
Now, take all of what I just said and picture me doing almost all of it alone, without any help at all! That’s right, I did most of it all by myself. My husband had to leave for his annual training with the National Guard and was not here to help until about a week and a half ago. I felt more than overwhelmed to say the very least.
As I said, this has been the toughest move I have ever gone through! I have moved across town, hell, I have even moved over an hour away from one county to another and it wasn’t as hard as this has been. But, I am in my new home at long last, my dream home, where I do not ever intend to move from…so I guess I have to look at the whole thing like that old adage, nothing this good comes easy.
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Lordpeace
09:12 Aug 02 2009
hugs you oh honey i know that hurt