Ironically, we'd done lots of renos over the past couple years, but not with an eye to selling it, because we had no reason to think that we were. It was all stuff that we really should have done in the first few years of living here, but it's hard to get started. For one thing, it's expensive to do anything, and it's also a big pain. You have to move everything out the room in question, and then the work itself takes forever. We spent many months with all the living room furniture in a heap in the family room, and many months with a non-functional fridge in the dining room.
Still, it was a really great feeling to have finally made some things happen that I really liked. We put in lovely hardwood in the main areas, and beautiful tile in the kitchen and halls. The walls were painted lovely colors that I thought about for a long time. We even had nice baseboards and ceiling moldings and window trim done, even window sills! This is a very plain 1960's house, the kind where windows look like a hole cut in a sheet of cardboard, and adding trim and windowsills was night and day!
Anyway, now that we're moving, it's like all that work is wasted. Although I guess it's not. Actually it's a good thing we did it, because the carpets were really crummy before, and so on. But it's sad, because for the first time I was really starting to like the house.
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