Stewart bought his house shortly after moving out here so it made sense that when we got married, I would just move into it. He was very much a bachelor with a sparsely furnished kitchen. He had a dining room table and no chairs. His house was a three bedroom with two of the bedrooms furnished and a weight bench in the third.
Then we got married.
I had been renting a room in a house near Austin and the rest of my stuff was in storage in Waco. First things first, empty out the storage unit because it's pretty much just throwing away money. I also found out that Stewart had a storage shed out here. Why? I have no idea, he had a house. So then we found ourselves with:
3 sets of sofas
1 armchair
1 futon
3 washer/dryer sets
1 dining room table
10 chairs
1 china buffet
3 beds
3 dressers
1 entertainment center
2 sets of shelves
Lots of other random pieces of furniture
Short story - we combined two households and had double the amount of furniture that we needed (3 washer/dryer sets and sofas? I don't even know how).
Another short story - our house is SMALL. The two of us fit just fine and the occasional guest is nice. I would not want my whole family visiting for an extended period.
So upon joining forces, our house looked like a disaster zone. And shortly afterward, we put it on the market to sell. I had to do some magic and FAST. Two yard sales later, we were down to a more manageable amount of furniture but still a little .... hmmm, should we say cozy? I worked hard putting things here and there and am proud to say that the house did undergo a significant transformation and became our home. We still had more than we had room for (who doesn't love a china buffet in their laundry room? Or shoes in the bathroom cabinets?). We managed to get down to 4 chairs at our table by returning the other 6 to a previous owner who was all to happy to have them back.
As much as I dreaded unpacking our stuff knowing that we were going to have to pack it up again, I hated walking into what was basically a storage shed that we were living in. I wanted a home. I wanted to have a place that we could have people over and feel comfortable in. So we settled in. And loved it.
Recently, we got more furniture. Our old dining room table found a new home on our patio. And our new dining room table has four more chairs to it. Our entertainment center is flanked by two new bookshelves that surprisingly match it! And we now have SEVEN dressers in our house. Don't even ask me how this is possible. We settled in the new pieces while still having it homey.
Now for chaos.
We are starting the moving process. One of the things that comes with our moving to India, is moving into a fully furnished house there. We can bring whatever we want to and leave whatever we want to. Movers will come to our house and pack it up for us. So in order for us to help facilitate this process our house is about to become a disaster zone (thank goodness, it's already been sold!). We are going to combine our two guest rooms (read: 2 queen beds, 4 dressers, 2 nightstands, and small shelves) into one room and have the other room empty. We're then going to go through the house and move whatever we are planning on taking with us into the empty room for easy packing for the movers.
I think we'll just keep those two doors shut so I don't have to see the chaos!
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