As many of you already have heard, Rob and I signed documents last Tuesday to close on our house. It took a few days for the paperwork to process and it was Friday when the title officially transferred into our/our mortgage company's name :) We spent the better part of Friday evening and yesterday cleaning like crazy and have made significant progress, but still aren't done. The cleaning process is taking a lot longer than I had hoped and anticipated. At this point, we have cleaned the front/family room, master bedroom (except for the bathroom) and laundry room completely. We've also cleaned the guest bathroom except for the bathtub, where we've been dumping all our dirty bucket water. We have been washing down all of the walls and cleaning the windows and blinds. The baseboards and little crevices in the doors have been ridiculously time consuming. I was working on cleaning out the cabinets in the kitchen yesterday evening when I opened a drawer and a cockroach (alive, mind you) was crawling around. I screamed a lil and that was basically the end of cleaning. (It was late at that point anyway.) Rob had hosed out the garage earlier that day and it seemed to bring all the gross lil creatures out of hiding. We sprayed using some indoor/outdoor stuff we bought at WalMart, but I really want to have an official exterminator spray. Unfortunately, it would be useless for them to spray until we were done cleaning...so our goal is to clean at least the bottom of the walls in the remaining rooms and get the carpets steam cleaned a few days before we move in, so that the exterminator can spray before we are there. There's so much to do! I am really looking forward to having everything cleaned, and starting in on the painting and decorating and organizing stages :)
Everyone has been asking for pictures, and to be honest, everything looks like it did in the pictures we've already posted! We haven't made any significant changes, aside from changing the locks and door handles, which I've posted a before and after picture of below.
Honestly, at this point for other pictures, just check out past blog posts. I promise to post pictures of other improvements we are making as they are completed, but I think it will be a bit before this is the case. This week and next we are going to focus on cleaning. Next weekend we will be in DC for Agnew's wedding and the following we will be moving. I have a feeling it will be the first weekend in March (moving weekend) before we post any other pictures, but I will do my best to update in the next few weeks despite the craziness. We hope all is well with everyone and are officially inviting you to visit Arizona and stay in our new house :) Come after we've worked this cockroach issue out though... :)
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