EMHED Phase one: Floors, Update!

All we can say is WOW. The loving/dining is totally finished and is beyond our expectations. There are some dark areas where there was water damage but the floor guy, Per, did an awesome job of minimizing them and also fixed the boards under the arch so that they lay flat with the rest of the floor. This was a lot of extra work for him but he's not going to charge us extra. We're really glad we hired him and hope we can recommend him to someone else at some point, so we can pass a favor on to him.

The hallway and kitchen are sanded but not oiled yet. Per will do that this week when he does the bedrooms. I hadn't realized it when all the plaster was still there, but these are full length planks! Each board runs the entire length of the room. When we pulled up the linoleum/carpet in the bedrooms we noticed it's the same in there too. Incredible! The planks run the long way in the hallway and the same in the big bedroom. It makes the space feel much bigger to have them arranged that way.

We moved more boxes into the basement and made several trips to Morten's parents' house to get the furniture Morten inherited from his grandmother. It's been cluttering up the extra bedrooms in Henrik's house and he was very glad to have us finally take them away.

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We also moved the kitchen appliances from the bedrooms to the living/dining along with all the other furniture left behind by the other owners. Then we pulled up the linoleum over carpet over linoleum in the bedrooms to get them ready for Per to come Monday morning.

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Morten will continue to take boxes to the house each day on his way to work and we have professional movers coming on Thursday to move the Piano and any other furniture we have time to load onto the truck. We will hire the movers for the minimum 1.5 hours and that's it. Anything that doesn't make it in that one quick trip will have to go in the Fiesta or a friend's tailor or something.