Moving (through renovations)

Spin313 · October 2011

Hope this is the right place to ask this...

DH and I just bought a house (closing this week, yay!). The house needs work (a gut-job kitchen and main bath, plus new flooring through part of the home, new windows, etc). I am hoping we can be mostly done and able to move in before Christmas.

I am not sure how to go about packing and moving. This is my first "real" move...when I moved in with DH (then BF), I basically had clothes, a futon, and bedroom furniture, not a whole household! Under normal circumstances, I would start slowly moving my dishes and stemware and kitchen items I don't use every day, but the kitchen is being demolished and there won't be any place for me to put the stuff for a while.

I guess I just need some guidance about how to get started when half the house will be under construction. Plus, we have two kids, so that complicates things even further. TIA

lil_jen051708 · October 2011

I'm a little confused if you are waiting until most everything is done or if you are moving during renovations. We had 2 weeks between buying and moving to demo the kitchen to the studs, pull wallpaper, fix plaster and paint the loving room and dining room walls do we could lay flooring, and do flooring in the halls and all bedrooms. When we moved and still were under construction, we pretty much used one bedroom as storage and the dining room as a pantry with a small table. I labeled all the boxes (which really didn't help that much because whatever I needed was always in the bottom box). I put things we needed like bath supplies, towels, clothes and bedding in our bedroom and bath. We did not have a useable kitchen do the first 2 months we lived in the house so I bought paper plates, plastic utensils and plastic cups. I cooked on the grill and camp stove and we did a lot of frozen microwaveable dinners and lunch meat. Make sure you have one or two pots/pans available as well as dish soap, hand soap and towels. You'll be washing dishes in the bathroom for a while. Honestly we were never at the old house except to sleep from 2 am til 6:30 am so we didn't need anything there and most everything was packed. We do not have kids though. Good luck!

Spin313 · October 2011

Lil Jen, thank you for your response...WE are not moving in during reno, just starting to move STUFF. I think I might wait until the windows are replaced and then start moving things into the closets. It's just overwhelming thinking about all the things that we have to pack up! I'd like to avoid having a room (or two) become the dumping ground for boxes.

MrsPM · October 2011

If you have a place to store the items until the renovation is done, I'd keep it away. The items will not be in used if you take it to the new home if you move it during the renovation. That's my opinion.

GildedIcon · October 2011

For our last move, DH and I both had full houses that we were packing, moving and combining into our new "married home" that we had built. We were having the entire house painted, and several other projects done that we decided to wait till were completed until we moved.

In the end it is less work, $$, and confusion to just wait and move at one time in an organized fashion. Spend your time now packing and labeling. Pack in a way that allows you to unpack in the order in which you need the items.

Move things ONE TIME and put boxes where they belong once.

Enjoy your new home.

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