So, we got the keys to the house today. Did the walk-through at noon, she fixed everything on the list, and cleaned it out good, too. I was thinking we'd have to spend a couple of days cleaning it, but no, it's as clean as a hound's tooth. Either she paid someone else to clean it, or she's a nut.
The brick is dark brown, almost black it's so dark, and most of the trim is dark brown, too. But the front door was mauve, to go with her decor, which seems kind of odd. I know she and her former husband moved in 1993, and remodeled the kitchen, and then divorced. When she moved out, she left her "window treatments," basically mauve swag and so forth, a little too fancy for my tastes, which don't go at all with the 1993 kitchen, which has a really ugly yellow linoleum. My thought is that the reason she got divorced is that she was a mauve swag person, and her ex-husband was a tacky yellow linoleum person. I mean, out of all the possible linoleums in the world, to pick this one is remarkable. It really makes you wonder whether we are, in fact, all the same species.
Anyway, our first act was to piss in all the corners to assert our territoriality. No, just kidding. We bought new locks for all the doors, and a can of Candy Apple Red paint for the front door, as it seems like a good time to paint when all the old hardware is off. Underneath the old hardware was, interestingly enough, something remarkably resembling Candy Apple Red paint, which she covered up with mauve.
Chris changed all the hardware on all the doors, and I scrubbed and painted the front door.
New locks, new front door, it's ours. Baldwin hardware, by the way, it's really gorgeous. Makes the yellow linoleum look REALLY cheesy. Chris points out that the house we are moving from has even worse linoleum, which is true. And I've trained myself to not even see it, so I just have to work on that. More important things to do than replace perfectly serviceable, but ugly, linoleum. |
