{"id":685244,"date":"2009-05-03T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/05\/03\/getting-our-house-in-order\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T20:55:00","slug":"getting-our-house-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2009\/05\/03\/getting-our-house-in-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Our House In Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literally.&nbsp; We drove back up to Washington to finish getting our house ready to be put on the market.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s finally done!!&nbsp; We worked&nbsp;hard for about 11 days, touching up paint, painting the trim, laying carpet, bark, and gravel,&nbsp; cleaning and staging.&nbsp; Major thanks to my brother (Devin), mom, Fabio and Esperanza, Antee Sara, Austin, and Tanya, for their hard work and effort in getting this huge project finished.&nbsp; We had a home inspector go through our house and made a long list of things to do.&nbsp; My brother knocked out the majority of that list.&nbsp; The boys did a great job helping, then keeping themselves occupied when necessary.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3590\/3495304307_4002080c7d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3331\/3495303305_a3617c0406.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>The Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fresh gravel on our driveway, as well as on the strip in front of our house:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3332\/3496124246_16d2e4d12d.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFresh bark throughout our front and back yards:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3315\/3495306785_338f48c42d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nPutting together the queen bed used for staging in the master bedroom:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3643\/3495307593_2de39a8335.jpg?v=0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3660\/3496127128_185376a507.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nEnjoying the fruits of their labor:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3604\/3495309425_0f4b76de7d.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nMy niece, KK, has a good little dog walking business in our neighborhood.&nbsp; She took the boys on a couple of walks with her.&nbsp; They were so proud that they could walk the big dogs!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3350\/3495310703_0cbdfff379.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe living room.&nbsp; Fresh paint (used to be a chocolate brown), fresh trim, new lighting, clean and polished floors&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3411\/3495311631_afff01b8ff.jpg?v=0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3495312447_de48ccbb47.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe bathroom.&nbsp; I had updated the bathroom about a year ago as a suprise for David, but&nbsp;Devin recently added new tile floor, and new hardware for the tub.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3350\/3495313235_9df4778dd4.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe master bedroom.&nbsp; New carpet, fresh paint and trim&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3332\/3496132930_14945b474e.jpg?v=0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3590\/3496133860_de3e86c72e.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe family room (entry room?).&nbsp; Fresh paint and trim, cleaned and polished floors&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3351\/3496134880_1cdc3cb5b1.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nView when walking in the door&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/3495317061_14efa85282.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe kitchen.&nbsp; Fresh paint, new stovetop, new vegetable sink, new hardware for regular sink, polished cupboards&#8230;a peek-a-boo view of the utility room with fresh paint, and tile, and a new light&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3363\/3496136904_869211f191.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3607\/3495319451_8ee117dc42.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3407\/3496140840_f0c8c77a8f.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nThe dining room. Paint, new chandelier, trim, polished floors&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3339\/3495321489_34197f4e86.jpg?v=0\" \/><br \/>\nWe hope to have it on the market this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally.&nbsp; We drove back up to Washington to finish getting our house ready to be put on the market.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s finally done!!&nbsp; We worked&nbsp;hard for about 11 days, touching up paint, painting the trim, laying carpet, bark, and gravel,&nbsp; cleaning and staging.&nbsp; Major thanks to my brother (Devin), mom, Fabio and Esperanza, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}