Leaving home
we’re moving. we will be out by thursday night/friday morning and moved to a new location after nearly 18 yrs in the same house. I dont really feel any specific attachment to this place – it is what it is and its been a crazy house with never quite enough room but we’ve always made it work somehow. i’m more attached to my personal items that go into any house i live in.
i was soaking in the tub after 4 hours of loading the moving truck, and happened to look up at the now faded green paint on the walls, the medicine cabinet that was installed brand new by us way back (and which now has a chipped mirror on one side), and our towel bars (utilitarian white metal)… and thinking… when we moved in here, we looked around at the items left by the previous owners (towel bars, old appliances, ratty old chocolate brown shag carpet etc) and could hardly wait to rip, tear, cut and build our way through the entire home to eliminate anything old, worn, faded, broken or not to our tastes and boy we went to town!
as i soaked in my bubbles looking at those towel rods, i realized that the people that have purchased our house will come in and do the exact same thing! They’ll probably replace the pvc mini blinds (never could figure out how to dress our three odd sized, odd height living room windows). They’ll most likely rip out the carpet in our upstairs bedroom (which came from a hotel reno job years ago for free – expensive carpet at the time and mountains of it only a year old), and yes.. they’ll probably replace the towel rods with something in brushed aluminum.
but you know what? i dont care 
I”m hopefully going to do the same thing at my new house!
Tags: bubble bath, faded paint, moving, moving away, moving out, moving van, new home, old home, ratty carpets, updated home
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June 8, 2009 at 5:14 am
I guess that old saying “out with the old and in with the new” truly does apply when moving out of an old and into a new house. We make any house our home by bringing in bits of ourselves. When you move into your new house, you’ll once again be painting, ripping, tearing, cutting to make it your home.
I wish you luck….but with reservation (selfish reasons that you know about
) May your new home be the start of a new adventure.
June 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Love it! I’m alway amazed when I watch the House Hunters show on HGTV how people move in to a home and immediately tear things down that I thought looked great. So much waste. When we bought our house (American dream turned nightmare!) we didn’t do anything until the spring. And only paint, and tearin up bad carpet to reveal hardwood floors. Some things just looked so good I left them. Anyways, good luck in new home!
June 8, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Or, they might say (like we did) — “weeeelllll, that’s not so bad. Let’s leave it for now, save ourselves the trouble. We’ll change that when we get a round tuit.”
Oh, except for the hardwood floors, which looked like someone had turned on the sander and let it loose to do the job on its own. We were saying, “that floor will have to be redone” at the very first viewing!
Still, after two years, though, I think we are totally ready to replace the blinds!!!