Moving house - not so easy

What a pain in the arse (in a nutshell). Moving house is normally a pain (and I thought moving in was hard), but here, you must return your house 'as new'. No wear and tear as the normal expectations are when people live in a place - it must be as new. Therefore, not only do you move out and do a thorough clean, you have to tighten all the hinges on any cupboard doors you may have used, remove all existence you were there (remove lights from the roof and blinds/curtains from the windows) and you must also paint. And oh lord, if you aren't prepared for what painting a unit is like (like me), its a nightmare.

Lets start with a fun little picture of the first painting mishap we had…. We decided to sell our bed, and to our accidental misfortune, we had previously decided to sticky-tape the mosquito net to the back of our bed headboard. On removal, it pulled all the paint off… oooops! So then we had to repaint (for selling). Our first idea was to sand and then spray paint. Our mistake was we thought if we laid out some plastic sheet in the lounge room and just put the head board on that to paint, all would be ok… Well, we didn't realise that spray paint goes into the air, and then eventually settles later - anywhere outside the sheet, ANYWHERE in the room. Here was the result… (as you can see, the squares are from other moving objects we had on the floor in the room).

Thankfully our couch was white - so that wasn't noticed and thankfully with some seriously powerful elbow grease we managed to scrub it all off. 

Then we realised the spray paint didn't actually work, so we bought some real paint, used a roller, and painted it outside (that worked). Then the bed was sold so we slept on our blow up mattress from Aldi. Many visitors have slept on it and been comfortable, but just for me, just when I want to sleep on it, it decides to change form (and of course, on my side of the bed)… and here is the very uncomfortable lump it grew. I found the floor more comfortable.

Then came house painting. We bought the wrong colour white to the original (more than once... 3 times), so ended up having to paint almost 60% of walls - that we hadn't even left a scratch on - just to make it blend. Below is our 'different whites' and 2 of the 4 buckets of paint we tried to match with (not an inexpensive task).

Hubby's wonderful painting skills also came with an extreme amount of splatter, so I spent most of the time scrubbing it off the floors whilst he continued to paint all the walls.

(I had to put two pictures of the hubby up because of those wonderful arms to look at!)

(Note the small splatters on the floor everywhere...)

And finally, we were out, it was clean and surprisingly (well, for me), I was happy to be out of there. The house did us good, but the moving process really wore us out (not to mention the inspection process to check the 'as new' condition).