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coraaSo! We are moved.
I am extremely happy, even though we aren't even all unpacked yet. The new house is so bright and clean and airy and calm. There's natural light in every single room (even the interior bathroom, though it's via a skylight in there), and in the office it's a beautiful but indirect light, so there's no glare or squinting into the sun. The office has a view of Lake Union and, beyond it, First Hill and downtown. There's green all around the house, huge green trees, some of them blossoming. And the house itself is just lovely, the right size for us, very... I don't know, soothing? It's just a restful place to be.
We moved on Friday with help from a moving company called TempStore/Gentle Giants. (The former is the current Seattle-area name; the latter is a Boston company they merged with, and will be the new name later this year.) If anyone in the Seattle area needs Washington-area movers, I can definitely recommend these people. It took 5 hours to move completely out of the other house and into this one, and that includes several difficult pieces of furniture and approximately ten thousand boxes of books. At $80 an hour (for 6 hours total, since travel time to/from their warehouse is counted), not a bad deal, and it meant that for the first time ever, the move didn't make me want to die. ;)
Since then we've been unpacking and shopping to stock the house. We unpacked the kitchen first, so that I could start cooking as soon as possible. I made sourdough out of my starter (the flavor is really good, but it was a little dense -- I think I need to give it a longer rising time, and if that doesn't help, perhaps let my starter develop a bit more; still, the dough rose, which means it's alive and kicking). We went shopping at Uwajimaya, and I bought a lot of things, including chicken feet for making stock with. We unpacked most of the living room and the office, and are now working on the bedroom and all the books and DVDs (the latter of which need a new storage option).
It's just... really nice. Really really nice.
Tonight I'm making slow-roasted roast beef, and then I'll tackle a few more boxes and then kick back and watch some Alton. Good times.
I am extremely happy, even though we aren't even all unpacked yet. The new house is so bright and clean and airy and calm. There's natural light in every single room (even the interior bathroom, though it's via a skylight in there), and in the office it's a beautiful but indirect light, so there's no glare or squinting into the sun. The office has a view of Lake Union and, beyond it, First Hill and downtown. There's green all around the house, huge green trees, some of them blossoming. And the house itself is just lovely, the right size for us, very... I don't know, soothing? It's just a restful place to be.
We moved on Friday with help from a moving company called TempStore/Gentle Giants. (The former is the current Seattle-area name; the latter is a Boston company they merged with, and will be the new name later this year.) If anyone in the Seattle area needs Washington-area movers, I can definitely recommend these people. It took 5 hours to move completely out of the other house and into this one, and that includes several difficult pieces of furniture and approximately ten thousand boxes of books. At $80 an hour (for 6 hours total, since travel time to/from their warehouse is counted), not a bad deal, and it meant that for the first time ever, the move didn't make me want to die. ;)
Since then we've been unpacking and shopping to stock the house. We unpacked the kitchen first, so that I could start cooking as soon as possible. I made sourdough out of my starter (the flavor is really good, but it was a little dense -- I think I need to give it a longer rising time, and if that doesn't help, perhaps let my starter develop a bit more; still, the dough rose, which means it's alive and kicking). We went shopping at Uwajimaya, and I bought a lot of things, including chicken feet for making stock with. We unpacked most of the living room and the office, and are now working on the bedroom and all the books and DVDs (the latter of which need a new storage option).
It's just... really nice. Really really nice.
Tonight I'm making slow-roasted roast beef, and then I'll tackle a few more boxes and then kick back and watch some Alton. Good times.
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Date: 2008-06-11 05:31 pm (UTC)