Here’s video I shot of the great room at the new house. It starts with a shot of the kinetic artwork that Lara bought me for Christmas and pans around the great room, featuring stunning shots of Sydney the Cockatoo along the way. Not terribly exciting, but a good look at the new place.
We close on the new house tomorrow and I’ll be glad when that’s over. Of course, the real work starts from there. The move. Thanks to Lara, that probably won’t be as painful as it could be. She’s been ruthlessly efficient, building spreadsheets detailing what will go where in the new abode and ruthlessly discarding the crap we’ve accumulated during our 10 years in the house in Hardin Valley.
Today, we did the walk through, which gave us a final opportunity to measure things and plan what will go where. In this picture, Lara is standing on our dock with Hidden Cove in the background. It was pretty exciting to stand there and look around, and it took everything I had not to jump in the water to celebrate. There will be time for that tomorrow …
I added a few photos from today’s walkthrough to the Flickr set I created for the house. Hope to add more as we get moved in.
After a long search, Lara and I finally found a lakeside place here in Knoxville. We’ve made an offer that was accepted, and we’re scheduled to close Aug. 27. We’re excited, and it’s a really cool place. It’s on a deep water cove on Fort Loudon Lake west of Knoxville, and the house seller is the architect who designed it. Best of all, it has a dock and plenty of privacy even though it sits on only 1 acre.
This year’s Christmas party is going to be a hoot …
This photo is a crappy MLS aerial picture of the dock. The house is up a fairly steep, wooded hill. More photos here on my Flickr page.
