Closing time

We closed on our house yesterday. I've heard horror stories about the drama of buying a house so I was a bit concerned it was going to be a huge deal but I have to tell ya, it wasn't so bad. We saw it, liked it, put in an offer. They said okay. We had it inspected and wanted a few minor things fixed, they said okay. We closed.

Last night we had our inaugural dinner at the new place - pizza we got free with a coupon. We just bought a house people, we don't have money to throw around. Then we pulled back a bit of the carpet to ascertain the condition of the hardwood floors underneath. The previous owners had said it was in "good" condition and from the bit that we can see, that seems to be the case. We will know for sure when we take all the carpet up but I think it will just need a good coat of wax/varnish.

The other pre-move in project that we weren't sure about was the wall of wood paneling in the living room. We scheduled and budgeted for its removal and replacement with drywall but we pulled off a outlet* and it looks like there is drywall already back there which would mean we only have to remove the wood and prime and paint the wall, which will be a lot easier.

The other things are our pre-move in to-do list include replacing the light switches and outlets, painting, removing some old carpet in the basement and lots of cleaning. I've already picked out most of the paints I want to use for the bedrooms and I have a narrowed it down to a couple really similar colors in the living room but I need to actually put samples on the wall to see for sure. We start tomorrow and hopefully can get a good start. I can't wait! (And I'm sure you guys can't either since it will mean we have something other than pictures of Lucy to put on here on this ol' blog)

*Our realtor gave us two tips. If you want to easily check under carpet to see if there is hardwood, go to a air vent and remove it. To see what is behind woodpaneling, take off an outlet. Both will let you check without doing any actual damage.