Wish
As you’re reading this, all our possessions in the world are being moved from one house to the next. It’s probably ridiculously hot. Or raining. We’re probably camped outside our new house waiting for keys to switch hands, anxiously adding up how many $124/hour hours we’ll have to pay the movers as the ridiculously over-paid lawyers do the things they do in these stressful situations.
What will keep us going is a) plenty of Tim Hortons, b) knowing we won’t do this again for a long, long time, and c) the relief that time cannot stand still, and no matter how long the day takes, the move will eventually be over and the sun will rise tomorrow.
What also helps are our selfish, material dreams. Tucking away the family fun we know our new house and town will bring, there are some cool things we’re craving — no matter how outrageous they are. That’s what dreams are for, right?
So here is the New Chez Foster-McDougall wish list:
- the backyard deck and yard cry out for a porch swing
- a new collection of white wine. Those that know me would be shocked to know I have nary a bottle of my fave dry kicking around
- a fancy black and white house number sign, kinda like this. A solar-powered light-up one is especially cool
- a new barbeque. Eric lusts after the fancy stainless steel ones
- go to sleep, wake up, and magically have the wallpaper removed. Can you imagine?!
- an inground pool. Oh, how I would love this one day. When my parents moved us to our house in the country with its 1/2 acre lot, they promised me that in 10 years we could get a pool. This, of course, was just a ploy to stall me, as 10 years later I was leaving for university — after which my parents put an addition on the house and made our teensy bathroom HUGE. Jerks
- glass cabinet fronts in the kitchen
- a new duvet cover. Ours, bought on sale embarrassingly for around $80 five years ago, has lost its fluff
There’s more. They’re just mushed in my moving stressed brain.
What’s on your home wish list?
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Oooo…I’ll play. My wish list might be a bit longer my new house is missing some of the basics.
1) a fence
a corner shed like this http://www.cabanavillage.com/sheds/five-sided-garden-sheds/ only that one costs too much, so something similar
2) an interlocking brick back patio
3) a paved driveway
4) trees – one miniature weeping tree in front, a giant maple (a future climber) in the back
5) paint on the walls
6) a bistro set for our front porch
7) gardens – a berm in our front yard surrounding the weeping tree and a great big corner garden in the back
9) exterior paint (August 29th, yay!!)
and finally,
10) Niall is also lusting after a new barbeque. He wants a big steel gas one with side burners and all. If I get 9 picks, he can have one.
Those “overpriced” lawyers are just doing their job to make sure that house is legally yours when all is said and done. And if they screw it up at least you have their insurance policies to back you up. You paid your agent way more than your lawyer — and they have nothing for you if they screw up.
But for my wishlist:
a) a fence
b) a deck at the back
c) interlocking pathway at the front
d) green grass (please rain? please?)
e) a nice big (not huge) tree in the back for some midday shade
f) a beautiful patio set for the deck
All of this would require my grading be approved. Apparently that won’t happen until late this year now
I hope all is going well with your move. Tim’s is for a sure a moving staple.
As far as my wish list – today it would be sheets any colour besides black because by big crazy yellow dog leaves his fur all over them. Also, a vacuum fairy.
We also just moved into a new house 4 months ago and cannot wait to have a grass, paved driveway, deck, fence & some landscaping. We finally just got our road yesterday! My list for the inside keeps growing but I do really want a hallway table, end tables for the master & picture frames to hang on our bare walls.
My wishlist:
1) Air conditioning!!!!
Living room set (yes, it is true, my front room is empty)
2)Paint on the walls, no more builder’s beige!! And, pictures to hang.
3) A fence
4) A deck
5) Gardens in the backyard
6) BBQ, just like Eric wants
7) Dining Room set
9) Kitchen chairs (we have my Grandmother’s first table that she had when she got married in 1941, but we have ugly 70’s chairs with it)
10) Lamps for the living room and family room
11) Hot tub (this is really a far stretch)
12) New tv (also not going to happen)
That is really just a start.
Hope the move went well. Moving is no fun, but, it was a great idea to get movers. We have done it ourselves (twice) and we don’t want to do that again!
Carly, I wish you all the best today as you move into your new house. It’s great having movers, as long as they don’t ‘get lost’ on the way to the new house – as ours did(how hard is it to go S on Brock St, E on Bayly/Victoria, S on Shoal Point… LIKE DUH!) They were just looking for more money, they knew it was a quick little jaunt over. Anyway, enough about that, our move was pretty good until they tried to put the box springs up the stairs and decided they weren’t going to fix (for a queen sized bed) and they had to be put over the second floor balcony instead). I was lucky though, not to have to be involved with the actual moving day as Kathryne and I took off for the full day to my parents as all of the hectic stuff happened around here. We came back to a house that only had a walkway through all the boxes piled high to the ceiling to walk through, with an infant in a carrier!
As for a wishlist:
1. a backyard would be great – I hate sitting outside as a ‘community’ in the evenings and would rather some space to enjoy sometime outdoors with our daughter – in private? Our townhouse has a second floor balcony only and a front porch which is really on the side of our house… confused yet?
2. a door going from the garage to the house (it was supposed to be done but the bldg inspector hit his head on the rail for the garage door and said, “This needs to be filled in, asap.”…don’t even get me started on how p.o.’d I was/am. The ppl who did the foundation should be repramended (sp?).
3. a lawn that isn’t brown with green patches and fixed in only one area by the landscapers
4. a room that is large enough for all of Kathryne’s toys
5. a sign that says, “If you have any opinions about the decisions ‘we’ as a family, make, please step away from the door!” – in honour of my mother, of course. Sorry, no website can be posted as I haven’t seen any that carries these yet….YET!
6. a maid
I could really go on forever, and fear that I should stop while I’m ahead.
Have a great sleep in your new home…remember, just the essentials should be unpacked first – beds, bed linen and for goodness sakes… Toilet Paper!
Good luck with the move, Carly!! I hope it all goes smoothly and you can start checking off those items on your wish list soon.
My list is pretty long, but mostly I’d like 4 bedrooms + a finished basement with a craft room. An open kitchen/great room with nice stainless steel appliances and walk-in pantry (to store all my wine, of course!). Oh, and a backyard not covered in dog poop so my Bean can play in her own yard
My wish is pretty simply..
A house to call my own would be nice. I am hoping that in a few more years I will have this wish. Keep your fingers crossed for me
Hope you have a “stressless move.” Not that there is such thing. I hated moving (I was a child of a military man). Yet, I liked being in a new place to discover all the new nooks and crannies of the new town/city and be able to open up my boxes and go “wow I remember this!” It would bring back a lot of memories for such simple things.
Soon you will be able to add all your “flare” to your new home to know that it is truely yours and have wonderful new memories !
Hi Carly! Hope the move went smoothly for you. I so don’t envy you right now. Just remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Here’s my wish list….
1. To replace all the 1980s oak trim and doors in my house with white 21st century stuff.
2. A bathroom in my basement.
3. To replace all 1980s light fixtures, kitchen/bathroom cabinetry and to rip out the hideous checkerboard lineoleum floors to be replaced with cork flooring.
4. An interior door to the garage.
5. A walk out to the backyard.
6. To find inexpensive window coverings for my living room windows. Enough with the 80s mini blinds that are dust magnets!
7. And last, but what I really want to list as my number one wish: to replace all the gravel in our yard with grass.