We Sold the House!

Yes, you read that headline correctly.

We.

Sold.

The.

House.

For reals.

The house which turned me into the boy who cried wolf. Okay, more like the old woman who cried wolf. 😉

Because, as those of you who’ve hung around here for awhile know, I’ve been threatening to sell the house since the genesis of this blog.

In fact, the reason I turned “our home” into “my canvas” (see what I did there?) is because I knew it would be sold as a tear down.

Spoiler alert: It was in fact sold as a tear down.

But my threats to sell for the past 14(!) years was met time and time again with an abundance of barriers.

First, moving while the kids were in college felt wrong. The idea of dropping them off from one house and bringing them back to a new house felt … well … wrong.

So we stayed put. For eight (plus) years.

Then there was our beloved Ernie (RIP). He passed a little over a year ago. It broke my heart and I still haven’t been able to bring myself to blog a little tribute to that funny little pup.

But It felt … well … wrong to move an old dog to a new house.

You know, that teaching old dogs new tricks thing.

Plus our plan was to move to a condo. Which poses any number of dog-owning obstacles. Like the walk schedule, especially in the winter. And not all condos permit pets.

But when all the obstacles disappeared, it was time to finally plug the trigger. Which we did in early January as our home was literally breaking down around us. I’ll spare the gory details but there was some water involved. And a garage that we prayed could withstand a potential snowstorm. Or heavy rain.

But once we made the choice to really, really sell, it all came together very, very quickly.

The house was sold and we put a bid on a condo in the span of a few weeks.

We closed early March. And moved in early April.

We lived for the first few weeks in a bit of a chaotic construction zone. And there’s more construction in our future (the bathrooms need serious work).

But it’s all coming together. And in the meantime, I’ll start sharing some inspiration boards for the rooms soon …

followed by pics of the quasi-finished place.

I mean, aren’t our homes always a work in progress?

Oh, and I let the professionals work on this canvas.

Our new-to-us circa 1970’s condo is definitely not a tear down. 😉