Fibermania

The Waiting Game

Yesterday, our first day back home, we got a visit from a moving company agent. He was to give us an estimate on moving our stuff from here to Chattanooga. We could have them pack it all up or we could do the prepacking and get a better deal. Bottom line, the charge would be about $35 per hundred pounds.

So he totalled everything up and handed me the estimate...between seven and eight thousand dollars! Yipes!

Well, needless to say this gave us pause.

Our stuff isn't worth that much money if we bought it new. Dave said, sell it all and start over fresh. I liked that idea, except for the selling part. I seriously don't want the hassle. Mostly because we got what we needed out of most of our furniture.

We have always lived as tho the cops were after us. I'm kidding, but I never really bought any serious furniture, like heirloom stuff. I may have mentioned our love for garage sales, want ads, and free stuff from relatives.

My bed is a nice Scandinavian Design which we got from my sister in law when her marriage ended. Our book cases were all sale stuff from IKEA, easy to replace. Our family room couch and loveseat we got from a want ad years ago and they still look exactly the same, even tho they are white leather. But really I don't want them to come with us.

I put in a call to the girlfriends and emailed others and hope that they will swoop in and remove things that they can pass onto their kids or find room for in their own homes.

So what shall I do in the meantime while the house remains on the market? I am dying to design my new studio...if only in my head.

At first I was modest in my choice of the smallest room, a 10x12 office space adjacent to our new family room. It would be close to the kitchen, and has the internet connection already installed. I figured out recently that all I actually use in my studio is my workstation and my sewing table. I can't bring my either with me, so I assume I will have to get a desk or table that can accomodate the seldom used sewing machine and the desktop computer, plus a new workstation.

Nah.

I started getting grumpy at this scenario. The office should remain the office. It is too small for both my artroom and the computer and all the books I will not leave behind.

Three bedrooms are upstairs and the largest, the fourth is on the main floor. We joked that it is the guest room for a family of ten. It is 15x20. Huge.

All the bedrooms have carpet, and so did that small office room. I know I cannot have a studio with carpet, not with fabrics, threads and paint as my mediums. Hmm.

So first thing, will be the removal of carpeting and the installation of new floors, hopefully hardwood.

And then I am going to claim the big bedroom. I will get base cabinets, as in kitchen cabinets. I will get countertops and an island workstation. I will have shelves and drawers and great lighting.

I will never retire in order to pay for all this.