The last few days have been encouraging with rooms being finished up by the diligent workers and our furniture arriving. Today we sold the house! We had been negotiating with other buyers who wanted a contingency on selling their house, but then other buyers came in and made a nice bid with no contingency. We were lucky neither tried to lowball us. I dunno about the rest of the housing market, but we didn't do too badly on this sale. We are very relieved and want to thank Bret's parents for all their hard work making it ready and supervising the movers, etc.

We thank Suzanne for all her hard work maintaining the house while it was up for sale. Mr. Brackett gets a thank you for his unflagging hospitality and patience while I sat on his porch taking cell phone calls and secretly peeking at the potential buyers from across the street. Our real estate team pulled through for us and we are of course relieved to be owners of only one house again.

So, on with the cottage progress...

Here comes our stuff! The movers consisted of the three guys who packed us; a father and his two sons and then two local guys were brought in to help unload. All of them really hustled.

The truck...

inside...

Adam has to have a look inside...

Okay, it wasn't enough that this guy had to put this huge chair on his back, he decided to carry stuff in his hands as well...

Master Bedroom

Here are the beautiful drapes that Bret's mom created from the bed set we found on sale at Linens 'n Things. We are so thrilled with them. She really did a great job!

Master Dressing Room

The Master Sitting Room is the same colour as the Master Bedroom (it just photographed whiter). Right now, we have the purple chairs in there, but we'll see how it goes.

Master Bathroom

The Master Bathroom is really a treat for us. Here is the shower...

enclosed toilet...

we only wanted a single sink...since we will only be in the bathroom one at a time...

We are looking for a big round mirror to go over the sink.

Hearth Room

The family room built-ins are temporarily holding all the dishes because the kitchen cabinets don't begin to be big enough! The doorway leading to the kitchen will be flanked with shelving that we hope to buy at Lucketts.

The Dining Room gets the Living Room mirror...oh, ignore the apple, it doesn't go there. The wall colours are a bit off in these photos, I promise...

and keeps the clock. The table fits a little better than we feared it wouldn't and so it's a keeper for now. It still can't open up all the way and the chairs are a bit big.

We got this idea to make this the "Map Room" a kinda staged gentleman's explorer home from his travels. We have a big map on one wall and our four smaller maps flanking the window. It will be a spare study. (Can there be too many?)

Foyer

Our Living Room sofa table got a new job, guarding the foyer:

Kitchen

Here are the finished cabinets with glass handles. We love it! The slate floors are the next step.

Breakfast Room

Breakfast Room but where to eat? The table is still full of stuff!

We will look for a storage piece here:

If the movers would have shuffled my books like a deck of cards, they couldn't have mixed them up more!

The shelves now have the general history and military history books roughly sorted:

More books still all over the floor...