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2/22/08 - Albuquerque, NM Home Sweet Home - or - the Brookses change residences yet again! |
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Well, we've been a little out of touch lately, so we thought it was high time for an update. As many of you know, we've been very busy in recent months getting our new home staging business, The Alluring Home (www.thealluringhome.com), up and running. It's been a huge undertaking, but we are well on our way! We also have the exciting (for us, anyway) announcement that, as of January 31, 2008, we are the proud new homeowners of 1902 Quail Run Road NE! It proved to be quite a stressful transaction and we are very happy to have that over with! We will still be residing here in the Duke City, and will be moving to our new home on the opposite side of town in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains sometime before the end of March. The new house is a 2-bedroom/2-bath, 1450-square-foot-vaguely southwest-style home in an established neighborhood in a well-regarded part of town. It was built in the early to mid-80s and was probably quite modern at that time. We love the overall structure of the house, especially the vaulted ceilings (tongue-and-groove), clerestory windows, mountain views and open floor plan but, while it is in relatively good condition, the house has some rather 'vintage' aspects to it that we are currently in the planning stages of getting rid of. Scott has already completed his first project (and single-handedly, at that!) of installing recessed lighting in the (very dimly lit) 2nd bedroom, which will be our office. He craftily used his favorite all-purpose tool, a wire coat hanger (see other uses), to get the job done. Kudos to Scott (aka MacGuyver)! Our first major project involves reconfiguring the space that is currently the master suite (incl. walk-in closet) and hallway, which includes a laundry closet and linen closet. Although we plan to do much of the finish work ourselves to keep costs down, we are working with an architect this time, which should make things a bit easier than they have been in the past.
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