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It was one of those, “assembly is obvious upon inspection of the job” thingies.

I just did them. Cracks and small holes in the walls are pretty easy. You just fill them with Spackle, texture it like the rest of the wall, and paint.

But the staircase bannister was mounted on the wall on one side, top, middle, and bottom. The middle bold came undone because the builder had mounted it in drywall, and I had to cut out the drywall, install a 2x4”, drill a pilot hole, repair the wall, and bolt on the bannister. Fun stuff!

I painted the entire house myself, but I hired someone to paint the trim. I could have done it, but it was fiddly and much more time consuming than just rolling paint on the walls. There were a lot of other things as well, and I can honestly say that the house was in much better shape when we left than when we bought it, and we did sell it for quite a bit more than we paid for it.

Also, I packed the entire house all by myself because Hubby had already moved to his new job in northern California. But that was the easy part. My late father was a furniture packer, and he taught me to safely pack anything. It’s mostly just common sense.

I was proud of my box of wind chimes. You could throw it across the room, and not a single peep out of it, or a single dented chime.

Then when we moved here, I did it all over again. But I had maintained our house there, so it wasn’t so bad that time.