Day 117: The House is the Boss

Today our house was screaming---give me some attention!! So we listened and spent almost the entire day working and getting caught up on some MAJOR cleaning!! We did lots of laundry, worked outside a bit, cleaned up the kitchen and did some much needed dishwashing! We went and helped our neighbors move out their living room couches because they were getting their new stuff delivered today. A lady was supposed to come yesterday to buy the old set off of them but never showed up. They asked if we wanted it--and offered a GREAT deal--so we decided to take them up on it and thought it would work good for our basement! It was easy enough moving over to our house--thanks to Steven's dad and brother for being in the area with the pickup. They came in the house just fine--and then there was the issue of getting it down the basement. The door frame was just too narrow and we first removed the door. Well, that still wasn't enough and the couch just couldn't budge down the steps. So the only option we had was to take the little bit of door trim off each side. Which helped just enough! The loveseat/chair went down the stairs and around the corner just fine, however the big couch was a different story. They went down one way first but couldn't get it to turn so had to come back up the stairs to get it turned around..well it got stuck on the way up! We eventually got it turned around and headed back down the stairs and it made the turn this time. A little paint scrapings off the wall later and the couches are set up downstairs (I wanted to paint eventually so now I'll have an actual reason too! :) They are really LARGE so we will keep working on the best arrangement but are happy with how it looks so far! (Maybe a rug for some color and some wall art and we'll be doing swell!)