Wanna buy a house???

Presenting our beautifully remodeled home…..

the family room

the music studio

the northeast bedroom

the northwest bedroom (or the freezer room)

the living room

the dining room / kitchen

my sewing room

the office

master bedroom

I didn't include the bathrooms because I already posted a photo of the main one and the other two still have things to be done. Actually, there are still other small things that need to be done throughout the interior and there are still the exterior projects (deck, garage ceiling, replace back door in garage, painting the outside of the house) but they will have to wait until the stay-at-home mandate has been lifted - currently at the end of April.  It was set in place this past week and our contractor, James, will not be coming until we are given the “all clear” - whenever that will be. I contacted our real estate agent as soon as I heard about the mandate to see if we wanted to list even with projects undone and he replied that the market is "very, very slow" right now and we can wait - again until the world (and the economy) starts moving again...maybe by the end of April but who actually knows??? So, the intense, daily push to work on the house has suddenly gone away. After Monday, when the carpet was installed (one of the BIG pushes), we now find ourselves in a state of calm. And, while I wish we were listing the house this coming week, it is kind of nice to have a long breather. The Music Suite has closed its doors during this period so I have two extra free afternoons. We have watched movies every evening (The Village, Signs, Arrival, 2012, and the first 3 episodes of Picard), we have taken afternoon naps without setting an alarm - it has been lovely. We finished the last bit of living room painting

and we have put away all the repair/remodel/painting stuff that has been laying around these past two months. We cleaned the garage and moved all of James's tools that had been strewn about into one corner and now we can actually park our car inside for the first time since Christmas!

I was able to get out in the yard in between the rainy days to pull up invasive honeysuckle and plant some grass seed by our downstairs back door. I listed on Facebook Marketplace the 110 retaining wall bricks we had used for planting areas

and someone snapped them right up and collected them over a period of two days (again, in between rain storms). So, now I can move dirt around where the bricks were and plant more grass seed. However, in spite of all these benefits, April is going to be a LONG month....

I think some robin is going to agree. She keeps wanting to build a nest right above our front door and every day last week, I have pulled down her work.

Finally I mentioned it on a family Marco Polo and Emily suggested I put bricks up above the door so I did. So far, so good. Although I did notice a robin hovering in our redbud tree yesterday looking kind of disgruntled...

My parting shot is of Elise and Bacon at Steven and Tamara's house last Sunday.