House
After a few months of stress and effort, the grand House Project of 2014 is finally over. We've moved into a new house (still in West Seattle about a mile from the old house) and after much toil, have a lovely comfortable place to live. With the Pumpkin moving to Seattle for school in the fall, we will have a full house and the new place has much more room to breathe--for one thing, we have 3 toilets instead of one!
We are renting my original house to some friends at least for a year. The market is tight and there are a number of houses on that street for sale, so we are going to tread water until that stuff moves. The "distressed property" next door remains a problem, but hopefully some flipper will get it soon and fix it up. It's been quite a slog to get that old place ready after so much work on the new place, but we are (hopefully) finally done now that our renters have moved in.
Professor X and the Pumpkin both love the new place, and it's been really nice to be able to spread out a bit. We've each got our own little corners in it, and mine is nicely situated under a skylight--which in Seattle mostly means a uniform grey, but it is natural light. And the best part is that it never glares on my monitor.
We are renting my original house to some friends at least for a year. The market is tight and there are a number of houses on that street for sale, so we are going to tread water until that stuff moves. The "distressed property" next door remains a problem, but hopefully some flipper will get it soon and fix it up. It's been quite a slog to get that old place ready after so much work on the new place, but we are (hopefully) finally done now that our renters have moved in.
Professor X and the Pumpkin both love the new place, and it's been really nice to be able to spread out a bit. We've each got our own little corners in it, and mine is nicely situated under a skylight--which in Seattle mostly means a uniform grey, but it is natural light. And the best part is that it never glares on my monitor.