It's Really Almost Ours

Well, our renters have been given notice and they will be out by the end of March!! Yippeeeeee!! We've owned this lovely home for a little over a year and a half, and with the exception of the week we bought it, I've only been in it 2 times!! I have bunches of pictures of every conceivable nook and cranny and measurements of all the rooms, but I haven't really felt like it has been truly MINE!!

Every time we visit Morning Glory we drive by, take pictures, walk in the park behind, and take more pictures - just to have a connection with it. But now - - almost really ours!!

We are planning a bit of remodeling, so we had a contractor and his architect go in to look at it - they are friends of ours, and I think the end result will be wonderful! Anyway when they went in the place reeked of cigarette smoke - so bad his throat hurt by the time they left!! He let me know and hubby and I decided that the renters were done!! We were going to let them stay a couple more months - but the fact that they are smoking in my house - MY HOME just frosts me! I'm very allergic to the smoke, so my understanding was that our property manager would be making that clear to any renter - aahhh - assumptions!! Anyway, we want our contractor to be able to start when he is ready, so having them out sooner rather than later is good.

So it's really almost ours!! Ours to remodel and decorate and welcome friends and guests to enjoy with us!! We are doing the remodel because there is a very small living room in the center of the house - nice, cathedral ceilings, fireplace - but very small when you take the "pass-through" areas into consideration. Also if you stand out on the back porch, behind the dining room you can see the lovely park behind our house, and the mountains in the distance. Unfortunately you can't see anything from the living room because it has no windows!!! SO! We are going to take a 4th back bedroom, the dining room and kitchen, bump the back wall out and make a wonderful great room! I've drawn ideas for the architect to "jump off" from and we are really excited!! We'll have a large living area, breakfast room, expanded kitchen and the old living room will become the dining room - which will hold our new dining room set beautifully!

We found it in October when we were visiting - it's the hutch with the leaded top windows and a table and 10 (yes 10!!) chairs!! It is a 54" round table with 6 leaves that can extend it to seat 18!! The furniture store offered to store it in their warehouse for us for free - so what else could we do but say yes!! It is really pretty and will look great in that room. We have always had hand-me-down tables, and we loved them and will still use Gramie's table in our breakfast room, it was so fun to actually choose something we both actually love!!

Well, That's all for today! I'm almost not a landlord!! Yeaaaaa!!!!