Upstairs furniture moving day!

Today, bright and early, Jim and I worked together room by room upstairs taking desks, dressers, beds, and whatever else apart and ready to be brought downstairs and into the garage.  The house has started to look very different - railings are off the staircase, library shelves are sad, rooms being emptied.  Part of the process - but we are definitely entering the ugly phase of this move.

 

Be really careful coming down now!

Bedroom emptying out

Kind of hard to work in my office now!

 

Bryan came over and brought the lift gate for the truck that he fixed and made looking like new!  No more scary rust holes - thanks, Bryan!

 

Then it was off to work - starting to take all the furniture down.  It required strong backs and many trips up and down the stairs.

Now look at the garage - what in the world are we going to do with all of this stuff?  We are really starting to get stressed about the amount of STUFF we have accumulated and now have to move out of this house really quickly.  We've pretty much decided that we have to get yet another storage unit here to move furniture in.  Bryan offered to help again with that process this week. Hopefully Kyle can come this weekend and we will take a truck and one of the 4Runners to NY with a load.  Then it will be back to finish loading and moving all the rest of the stuff - namely all the downstairs!  Ugh!

Hutch leaving the dining room

 

Now that the furniture is gone from Jim's office, you can see the gorgeous closet doors all finished and hanging up.  Too bad we didn't get to enjoy how pretty they look for very long but at least they're done!

 

Wow...look at our bedroom now!  Very empty except for the mattress on the floor. Since we spent the first decade of our married life sleeping on a mattress on the floor, it won't be too hard to get used to!