As far as house projects go this year, 2018 has been a significant year. Probably my most productive yet. In relative significance to the prior projects, the next project is the most disruptive. While changing the HVAC unit and resurfacing the pool are huge, expensive projects, reflooring half the house is just massive.
Six spaces in four rooms are going to be converted from carpet to laminate. The carpet has been in place probably as long as the house has been around, so… 25 years or so? It’s time to update that. The contractor came out and gave me a quote, which I just accepted and we set an estimated install date two weeks out.
From the sounds of the work plan, it sounds like they are going to do one room per day. That includes moving the furniture in and out of the room. The only thing I have to handle is getting things up off the floor and removing breakables and personal items. The master closet is going to be all on me because the wardrobe cabinets were actually assembled in the room, you can’t move them in or out of the room assembled. One other thing I committed to was packing up my CDs from the tower racks. I don’t see any way of moving those towers with the CDs in place. To accommodate that move, I bought some magazine boxes on the recommendation of a poster on a forum I frequent. They were a great fit.
A lot of people despise packing. I am one of those people who actually doesn’t mind it. Well, unless the deadline is too close and I’m scrambling, but otherwise, I like packing up. The process is a physical affirmation that change is coming, and that change should bring excitement and hope for the future. In the near term, this means I’m getting a new floor; in the mid term, it means I’m going to be in a totally new environment.
Packing up is like making a deposit on your future. If you don’t follow through with your plan, you lose all the effort you put out packing up. Right now, all my music gear is packed and stored. Now my CDs are packed and stored. The more I pack, the less I have keeping me in my place. And of course, packing provides some time of reflection, to make sure you really need to hold on to that thing anymore.
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