Editor’s note: The Annie Selke & Apartment Therapy Rug Design Challenge is coming down to the line. Voting ends on July 20th and I need all the help you can give me. Please hop over to THIS IMAGE and double-tap it to vote. That’s all you have to do! Of my 3 designs it’s the one that’s gotten the most votes so it’s the one I’m primarily focusing on, but feel free to like all 3 images (OPTION 2 AND OPTION 3). You guys are the best!

Nine years ago, when we walked in the front door of this house I told Simon I’d either have to be forcibly removed from this home or taken out in a body bag. Doesn’t that sound delightful? And yet here we are nearly a decade later and Simon has almost convinced me.  Maybe it’s his life as a realtor – you see a lot of really amazing stuff (and to be fair, a whole lotta duds, too!). Anyway, he planted the seed in my mind and now it feels like we are having Legitimate Serious Talks about doing just that.

Here’s our pro/con list on moving.

PROS ABOUT OUR HOUSE NOW

• The neighborhood & culdesac
• mature trees
• lots of living space to spread out in
• great kitchen, living areas
• living well within our means/budget
• Downstairs master bedroom and bath

There’s so much good about where we are!  I tossed around the suggestion of adding on to our house to improve the master bedroom situation, but S doesn’t think that we’d recoup our money in the long term.  IF we moved (and that’s a big if!), we’d want to stay in the same neighborhood but possibly in the northern end of it. We’re so close to Jude’s school and our church, as well as Simon’s grandmother, and we can’t imagine not being near to all those things.

PROS ABOUT MOVING

• we love a project!
• potential for more space, better location
• more room to entertain??

CONS ABOUT MOVING

• moving sucks
• getting the house ready to list (OMG)
• cleaning out our crap