08-09-2006, 08:02 AM
Noel touched on something that we did. We moved a lot of stuff out of our house and garage into storage units. We only kept stuff around that was absolutely necessary for us to conduct our daily lives. We took down most of the pictures and cleared out most of the decorative knick knacks. We did this because when we first saw the place, before we bought it, the house was completely empty. This allowed us to better imagine our stuff in place.
This may not work for everyone, but it helped with other issues for us. Our home was in a fairly remote location with at least 10 miles of curvy mountain roads. So putting our stuff in storage lockers made the container loading much easier.
We carpeted over worn oak flooring because refinishng would have been an issue for our bird, besides being more of an upheaval. We also had laminate flooring installed over ugly kitchen floor tiles.
In the yard, we had a retaining wall installed with a large sitting boulder at the end that became the focal point. We planted with native plants for ground cover and flowers.
All of these things were fairly low cost. We were fortunate to have good, reasonably priced labor to the yard stuff.
Les C
This may not work for everyone, but it helped with other issues for us. Our home was in a fairly remote location with at least 10 miles of curvy mountain roads. So putting our stuff in storage lockers made the container loading much easier.
We carpeted over worn oak flooring because refinishng would have been an issue for our bird, besides being more of an upheaval. We also had laminate flooring installed over ugly kitchen floor tiles.
In the yard, we had a retaining wall installed with a large sitting boulder at the end that became the focal point. We planted with native plants for ground cover and flowers.
All of these things were fairly low cost. We were fortunate to have good, reasonably priced labor to the yard stuff.
Les C