The new house is closing on...

July 28th, one month from Today!! I can't wait to get the keys to our new house at North Hampton!

Fun stuff for the new house

Kitchen
Originally uploaded by kc-star.

It's very hard to picture how the house will look like when it's done. Before we left FL, we went to the Design center and looked at samples of the tiles and carpet that will be installed in the house.

Since we can't change *anything, we were a little worry before we see the samples. "Oh gosh, what if they picked crazy things, like orange floor, green sink... or ...... ! When we sale the house, no one would want to buy it!"

It turns out ok, pretty "universal"!

New dates!

The house is coming along! Stucco is up, interior wall is painted, lights are installed, cabinets are there.... Appliances are there too, Wait a min! They are the wrong ones! We don't want Bisque; we want Stainless!

We are sending SI's car to Florida at the end of June. Movers will come in help packing starting July 18th (tentatively); the new house will be closed some time late July.

Wow, it's a little hard to believe.

When the house is being shown...

There are 3 showings this evening!!!!

and I don't think they want me to be there. So, I escaped to Mrs.Flinger's and guess what we did....

Visit before we move

Grace and Eric drove hundreds of miles to come visit stakit and kc star before the move. They came to the Ice rink to cheer and support. After the competition, we headed out to PDX and looked for a place to hang out by their hotel. Guess who we ran into? Mr. and Mrs. Flinger!!!

After competition
Originally uploaded by kc-star.

Mr. and Mrs. Flinger were out for their romantic get-away and now they are stuck with us ;) Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Flinger for letting us share some time with you :)

We all hung out... chatting, laughing, catching up.... the night went by quickly. We are going to miss this!

Thank you Grace, Eric, TBob, Mr. and Mrs.Flinger. Stakit and I had a great time!

We did it!

After a month off ice-skating, KC Star is back on the ice! She's very thankful that she and her ice dancing partner made it to another competition! Since the relocation, this may be the last competition for this team!

Floorplan

Floorplan of the new house,
originally uploaded by kc-star.

The house will not be done until July 16th! For now, I can share the house's floorplan with you.

The house have 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, Living, Dining, Family room, Kitchen and a nook. We did also get the optional covered patio.

The family room has a fireplace and surround speaker prewired! I also will get the laundry sink that I always wanted!

The little tech center next to the family room has a build-in desk and cabinetry. A little handy area!

Not pink anymore

Looks a little better now.

New house!

Com'on in!! It maybe a little dusty now though ;) You can find more pictures of our new house here.

We Found a House!!!

First day we looked at 12 houses; 2nd day 5 houses; 3rd day, today, we know which one we want.

So, today, we bought a house. It was a kinda funny process. Since we are looking at new houses, builders don't usually come down on price. KC introduced competition between builders ;) So, we have builders fighting. Price went better and better. Free upgrades get easier and easier! So, of course, we like that.

I'll upload some pictures soon and here is the community we will be in.

We got a Great price on the house that we like and free upgrades. We have no complains!

Florida house hunting highlights

We are here!! We started househunting! The house the we were hoping to looking at is sold :( bye-bye 3-car-garage!

So, my realtor and I got busy! We went and looked at about..... 12 houses while Stakit was at work. We took Stakit back to some of them later in the evening. Here are the 2 houses that I current am thinking. What do you think?

House in Oregon

Dinning room
Originally uploaded by kc-star.

We have to working with 2 different relocation real estate consultants. We have reviewed their Comparative Market Analysis of our house and their presentations. We chose one to list our house and it will be on the market this Sunday!! Open house will be the following Sunday, the 11th. She came by yesterday and took pictures for the virtual tour. The ad will be on all the normal places, internet, newspaper, MLS... and she had place it on the next issue of Portland Monthly magazine which will come out late June.

We have been doing everything that we can to make the house look presentable: plant flowers, clean, clean, clean, pack things away, and plant more flowers! A couple of friends even came by and helped out!! I think we are almost there! Fortunately, my leg is getting much better, I can run up and down! However, I got a cold. I have a little fever today. I took some non-drowsy cold med; I'm good to go!

I'm hoping after Saturday, once the house get on the market, it will be much easier. We can enjoy the house like a hotel ;) we will have a great house keeper (me!). Life will be good!