It’s a crazy time. We’ve been practicing social distancing and washing our hands and organizing our shelf-stable foods while the coronavirus pandemic is sweeping through Georgia. I had to cancel a big event for work, and for our nonprofit, that’s a potentially huge impact on our ability to deliver services. But we’ve been working to…
Author: Kate
Putting Down Roots
First of all, how do people adult? I mean, we both have 40-hour-plus careers, but we don’t have kids and our social lives aren’t nearly as demanding as they used to be when we were whippersnappers with livers of steel. How does anyone work, care for a house, raise children, and accomplish … um, things?!…
How to choose bamboo flooring when you have endless options
“We’ll just do a simple click-lock floating bamboo,” we said. “We’ll pay a contractor, but it’s totally DIY-able,” we said. Friends, flooring is hard. This is a process post about choosing the right flooring and installation for our home. TLDR: Skip to the end when we tell you the super-important part about bamboo installation on…
Glittering Up, Not Glittering In
First of all, WE LIVE HERE! Content about actual projects in our actual home to come soon. Also, Indigo will write some posts soon. I have that on good authority because I have been demanding it and I make the coffee around here, so I hold some cards. So last week we had the new…
Closing Day!
Maybe you’ve closed on a house before. We sure hadn’t, and it was hard to know what to expect. I can assure you that you’ve almost certainly not been to a closing like this one! First of all, it was queer as the day is long, folks! There was only one name on the deed,…
Having a house under contract, a story in GIFs.
From Kate: At first you think, of all the people, we’re the ones who have this house. That’s right. You’re a big-time, home-buying WINNER! But then you start thinking about what the house doesn’t have. Or what you’ll have to pay. Or what will happen if you find out that everything is a rotten mess…
Waiting
From Kate: 5 minutes. Abbie is calling in 5 minutes and she may or may not be telling us our offer was accepted. 4 minutes. And *I’m* judging me for wanting a semi-busted townhome. I wanted this enough to offer high before it went on the market. But I *think* I won’t be heartbroken if…
Putting Down the Offer
From Kate: Today is the day. We’re putting down a formal offer on a townhome. We’ve had our eye on this community since before we really began looking at homes. It’s an HOA-simple little collection of attached homes, usually 1200-1500 square feet, each a bit different from the next. The homes were built in 1983…