We knew going into this that the moving expenses wouldn’t end with the moving company and the setup of utilities. There’s also replacing outdated cooking gear, like the should-have-replaced-it-years-ago griddle, and adding shelving which would never have fit into the apartment, hence living partly out of boxes for most of the 8 years of that residency.

This week I ordered in new shelves for the erstwhile pantry space. (Basically, the “pantry space” is the walkway from the garage door & back door, past the kitchen, into the house proper.) This will allow us to, you guessed it, unbox more stuff.

Today we assembled the shelves. Okay, Vyx helped with the first one. I did the second unit solo.

I’m not wild about this construction style, but it beats the wireframe style, even though they both essentially come down to “beat this shelving mount into place with a rubber mallet until it stays put,” which is… certainly a thing, isn’t it. At any rate, soon these shelves will be covered in foodstuffs, cookware, and the board game library. (It’s well away from the cooking area, don’t worry.)

More and more, we’re making this our home. And I’m still loving it.