The past several month has been real estate torture for me and Mr. OHN. 4 months after our accepted offer on the brownstone in Clinton Hill, we finally closed in the midst of the big NYC snowstorm and moved in the day after New Year's. Over the first few weeks, we struggled with the repairs left incomplete by the sellers. Mr. OHN installed the dishwasher, a new kitchen sink faucet, and repaired the kitchen sink plumbing, the master bath shower, and the balances in our rear parlour window, so it would actually close instead of hang open a full foot in frigid temps, and we had to repair our gas boiler. We also had a pipe burst in our garden floor bathroom, flooding the floor and the cellar below. We need to replace the hardwood floors on the garden floor now because they have warped. All of this over three weeks while unpacking, Mr. OHN starting a new job, both of us fighting the flu, and my struggling with first trimester nausea. It was rough.
But all that is behind us now! We're slowly working to make the house into a livable home, tackling a few things at a time, but it does seem overwhelming. I think a quick win can be getting shades for our master bath to replace the temporary ones I picke up at Home Depot.
I am thinking something like these available on
Etsy.
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