I'm getting emotional at all the hard work and energy that has gone into this house to make it a home! To renovate and improve it back to its former glory. Like, 'Oh yeah Mark made that, he built that wall and those windows and changed those lights and planted that tree'! It's emotional!
Our house is over 100 years old and has needed a lot of TLC and care. It's not a house we could just live in, it needed owners to love and cherish it. We knew we wanted to do a renovation before we started a family, but maybe we didn't realistically know what lay ahead. It was hard work, a lot to hard work. The weather up here did make it a slow renovation as for 6 months of the year it is far too hot to renovate and Mark had no garage to retreat to and build in during wet weather. There was stuff everywhere at times, we'd be doing one room at a time so furniture was shuffled from place to place.
At times we felt like giving up and just saying, 'Ok that's good enough'. I am so glad we didn't; because what we have accomplished is truly special and amazing.
Everything now has been put in its place, styled and organised. But that's it! It's ready to sell! It seems crazy to sell after we have just finished, but we need to try moving closer to our families, and we really need to escape this heat. We just aren't hot weather lovers!
This home has been our labour of love for 3 wonderful years and we're just about to be giving it away to someone else.
It won't be ours forever. I know it can't be, but I really am having a hard time saying goodbye!
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