We promised photos of the old house emptied and ready for its new owners, so here they are. (These were uploaded while parked at Panera using their Wi-Fi because we couldn’t get service set up at the new house until the next day.) We intended to share more updates yesterday, but coordinating a domino closing—where one sale must fund another the same day—rarely goes smoothly. The buyers of our house ran into an unexpected delay, and we did too, so we didn’t actually close until this morning. Thankfully, the previous owners of our new house kindly handed us the keys early since they knew we had nowhere else to go and a truck full of belongings. We’re so grateful to them. Oh, and we were hit with a surprise snowstorm that made moving items between houses quite an adventure (more on that later).
After hours of unpacking and getting Clara and Burger settled, we finally crashed—our mattress on the floor—around 1 a.m. Even exhausted, we couldn’t stop grinning. There’s nothing like the first night in a new home. Clara and Burger seemed to agree: so far they’ve adapted like pros. We’ll share more about moving day and photos of the new house once we sort those images (maybe this afternoon). For now, enjoy a look back at Casa Petersik—comparing early move-in shots with what the house looked like on our last day.
Here’s the living room when we first moved in:
And here’s how the living room looked the last time we closed the door:
Here’s the kitchen when we moved in:
And here’s the kitchen as we left it:
The den when we moved in:
The den as we left it:
The master bedroom when we moved in:
And the master bedroom now:
The office/guest room/playroom when we moved in:
And that room as we left it:
The formal dining room when we moved in:
We left it as a nursery after removing Clara’s favorite light fixture and curtains—the only items we couldn’t part with:
The sunroom when we moved in (apologies for the awkward angle—we didn’t realize we needed a great before photo):
And the sunroom as we left it:
It was bittersweet to close that door for the last time—surprisingly, I didn’t cry—but it felt incredible to open a new door to our next chapter. We’re excited to share this journey with you and will post more photos and details as soon as we can.
P.S. We still need to update our site header and rename the House Tour tab to “Old House” and add a “New House” tab with before photos. Hoping to find time to do that in the next few days.