Moved in

The move went pretty smoothly, and we're excited to be at the new house. There are still a few more things that need to be done (but that will always be the case).

We were able to get a second coat of paint on the laundry room last week, that helped a lot. While on the topic of paint, we had decided to go with Behr paint, which was slightly more expensive than some others, but I think it was well worth the cost... only one room needed a full second coat, but we're pretty sure it only had the base coat from the builders 10 years ago... We did have to go over small areas a second time in most rooms, but even then it didn't take much work and the final results look great.

Also, we got our new washer and dryer hooked up. We had initially wanted to get a front loading set, but we realized that they are several inches deeper than a top load, and we didn't have much extra space. After looking around a bit more, we found the Fisher&Paykel top loading set (top loading washer and top loading dryer). Although it wasn't what we had originally been thinking, it now seems like a much better choice, and even if we had more space, I think we'd still prefer them.

Overall, it was a great weekend, productive, but also a lot of fun.

Moving

We're finally moving into the new house this weekend, after spending the last few weeks getting stuff cleaned up and painted. We're just about done painting, just one more coat on the laundry room and we're good to go. At this point we've already cleaned the house a bit, painted 3 bathrooms, a bedroom, the kitchen, and put one coat on the laundry room.

We've also been able to move quite a bit of the smaller stuff over, so this weekend we just need to take the furniture and the last of the small stuff. I'm really excited to be moving in, but I also really hate packing, so this is going to be a tough week, but it should be completely worth the work.

At work I've finished my big project, (after about 7-8 months work) and I'm able to start working on something new, which is great because now I have more than one thing to work on (I'm still maintaining the last project), and it's always nice to have a bit of change.