I am not concerned about the next four weeks. I think it will be fun and I think I’ll have way more cross stitching time. I really can’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen because this is my kitchen for the next four weeks! Oh, my .. I first typed months instead of weeks. That might be a bit more of an adventure than I am willing to do.
We still have to bring the toaster oven and the coffee pot down but there’s also the Camp Chef two burner gas stove we can use if we need it. We won’t need it . . unless the electricity is off.
We emptied out the dining room today and I tied up the curtains so they aren’t near the floor where the guys will be working.
The dining room table seats 8 with both leaves in it and it’s so heavy. When we got the second load from Texas and moved the dining room table from the breakfast room to the dining room, it took Chad, Nicole, Vince and me to move it. We kept thinking they’d be by here and we could move it into the living room but they weren’t so this afternoon Vince and I had to move it else get the floor guys to do it in the morning and I wanted to have everything done when they get here.
I told Vince . . if we take the leaves out, maybe we can move it but neither of us remembered how to open it too get the leaves out. Vince said “Call Jeremy!” I said . . no, he told me how to do it; he told you how to do it and he actually came over and did it for us once.
We figured it out!
I should say Vince figured it out. There are some latches under the table part and you have to unlatch two of those on each side, then you can pull on each of the table and it just glides open. The leaves slide down lengthwise. Pretty cool. I believe the table was made by Amish and I think that’s something they do often but I’ve never had a table like that before.
This will be our dining area for the next four weeks.
If things get too crazy, at least the downstairs bedroom is padded . . with tubs of yarn all around the room.
Rita’s little pen will be on the tile floor. She’ll probably love it because she’s close to where we’ll be sleeping and close to the living room.
We have the family room in the basement, which is also the dining room now <G> with two recliners that had to be pushed closer together to make room for the other stuff.
Those double doors behind the recliners go into the sewing room but we don’t use those doors. There’s another door . . you can’t see it but it’s off that tiled area where Rita will be staying.
And there’s this sofa. It’s so dated but it’s in perfect condition and it’s so comfortable and it’s the best sofa ever for taking a nap. It’s 30 years old and every time we move, Vince says “We aren’t taking that sofa, are we?” YES! I love that sofa. It usually has a brown slip cover on it so it isn’t always so obvious that it’s ancient. It’s a sleeper and it’s so heavy. Movers always complain about having to move it (as does the husband).
So . . we’re ready. Vince did bring a printer down and I have a magnifying light down there so . . we’re as ready as we can be. We’re sleeping downstairs tonight and the floor guys are supposed to come tomorrow.
Cindy F says
Looks like you are prepared! Hope it all goes well! Your word “adventure” makes me think of a scene from Mama Mia where Bill tells Harry, “It’s an adventure, Harry” regarding sleeping in the old goat house. Don’t know why that popped into my mind but it did! lol
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Sleeping in the basement is better than sleeping in the goat house! 🙂
Joyce says
I can relate to “4 months”. When I had the kitchen remodeled, I was without a kitchen for about 3 months. The refrigerator was in the family room right behind the sofa. The stove was unplugged and sat in the family room too. (in a spot where I was having a cabinet replaced as part of the remodel). The microwave was on a rolling cart and sat next to/in front of the stove. I have a gate-leg table that is about 8 inches wide when both ends are down, so it sat behind the sofa and I lifted up the one end when I sat there to eat. I actually ended up eating out a lot, especially after I almost dropped a just cooked frozen meal on the carpet in the family room. I hated doing dishes in the bathroom sink, so I didn’t want to cook much. Looking back on it, I should have bought disposable plates and bowls so I only would have had minor things (like cups and silverware) to wash. 4 weeks isn’t bad at all in comparison.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Vince brought me in a 5 gallon bucket so I can make dishwater in the bucket in the bath tub. It’s going to get interesting and we may end up using disposable plates and bowls too but we’ll see how it goes. No, 4 weeks is not bad. We can do anything we set our mind to doing. And, after 4 days, we can run upstairs and grab things but we need to try to stay off the floors as much as we can.
Cinda Moulds says
Do you have pictures of your damaged floor?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I can’t easily include pictures so I’ll do a post with the pictures.
Shauna Trueblood says
Your couch reminds of one my mom had but hers was more rust in color. I loved that couch it was the best napping couch ever. In fact all three kids protested when she finally replaced it. The new couch was nice but it never was as good as old rusty.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Maybe her sofa and mine are related. It is the best napping sofa ever and it’s comfortable to sit on and not bad to sleep on. I had it in the sewing room and Boots and I often took quick little naps on that sofa.
Nancy H. says
If they are sanding your floors, I would take down the curtains. Even with a vacuum attached to the sander a fine dust will be on everything. Easier to take down and put back up than taking down to launder or dry clean. Also take down any samplers that are not behind glass. You can dust glass easily enough but getting the dust out of the fabric would be more difficult. I have lived thru several remodeling efforts and it is always a mess to clean up afterwards.
RuthW in MD says
Didn’t you mention that you were going to put down a plastic tablecloth or tarp under your temporary dining table, to protect the carpet?
I agree with removing any fabric or knicknacks from the “sanding area”!! Perhaps you should tape up plastic doorway coverings that “puddle” on the floor OH!! the vents will carry the dust all over the house! Maybe the floor finishers will have better ideas on how to cut down on the dust. Sorry, I just remembered reading a book about remodeling an old Victorian in the Chicago area. First word in the title was “Dust…”