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If home is where the heart is, mine is somewhere new!!

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We moved! We sold our house, packed everything into boxes and moved across town into The House Worth Moving For. While we weren’t really planning to buy a new house this year, it ticked all of our “must have” boxes and just felt so right. We gained an extra bedroom, an office and lots of space to grow into for many years to come.

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It was very bittersweet to say goodbye to Cottage KERF, where we brought Mazen home from the hospital and entertained so many friends, and we will miss our screened-in porch so much, but we absolutely love the new place. I don’t plan on doing any grand house tours, but you can be assured this house is Home Neat Home : )

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And the best news? The new place has great natural light in the kitchen and dining room! Breakfast this morning was raspberry swirl French toast plus banana, blackberries and almond butter.

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We only had one mishap on moving day – a shelf that was missing a peg sent an antique champagne glass crashing down among all the dozens of others about to be put away. By some stroke of luck, it was the only glass that shattered!

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  1. Congrats on your move! We built our house 8 years ago while I was 5 months pregnant with our third. It was MISERABLE packing up and selling a house while pregnant and doing daycare, ugh. My only big story was 3 days after we moved in it was Thanksgiving and our basement flooded, because the tubing on our water softener was never tied down….

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  7. You lil sneak! When did you guys move?? LOL How does Mazen like the new digs? I recently moved as well. On March 1st. In the freezing sleet and snow. Yep! Fun times!

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    • I was worried about a blizzard as well! Mazen loves the new place. Once the toys were here he was happy!

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      • Is there a spot to make a little hideout for Mazen? I adored his book reading nook/fort at the old house! 🙂

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        • There is an under-the-stairs closet but right now it’s filled with his baby clothes! Maybe once those are gone I could do another fort when he’s a little older : )

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  9. Congrats on your new house!! I do hope you’ll change your mind on giving a tour; you have a good eye for design, and I’d love to see the decor in your new place! Congrats again! (Super jealous, btw!)

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  10. Wow, congratulations on moving! We purchased a home when we first got married and unfortunately have never been able to sell it when we relocated to NC. It has actually turned into a great rental property, but makes us hesitant to purchase another home! The only mishap we had when we moved was the movers broke the glass on our coffee table. It ended up not being that big of a deal because they replaced it.

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  20. Best wishes in your new home! I know you said no “grand house tours” but I hope you’ll reconsider because I absolutely LOVE your home/decor/organization posts!

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  22. Congrats on your home!! It’s so exciting to build and with the family it’ll be a special place for sure!

    This is a really random question – where did you get the grey and yellow bag hanging on the hook in the first pic?! I have been looking for something like it for work!

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  23. So exciting!! I can’t wait to get some more glimpses of it. Congrats! We just bought our first home this week… let the painting commence!

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  25. I do hope you will consider a house tour! Those are some of my favorite posts.

    Congrats on the move!! It’s so fun to be in a new space.

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  26. Congratulations Kath, how exciting for you guys! I would love to see snapshots of your new home, your “home neat home” posts are some of my favorite!

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  27. Congratulations Kath! We are re-decorating at the moment- can you please tell me what shade of grey the walls are painted? I love them!

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  28. congrats!! would LOVE a tour. i think your supreme organization is a primary appeal of your blog. there’s no better way to show it off than with a tour!

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  32. Congratulations! Moving is always stressful. When I moved into my apartment almost 6 years ago, my queen sized box spring wouldn’t go up the staircase (I lived on the second floor) so my then-boyfriend (now husband) and one of our friends had to tie rope around it and lift it up over my deck. When my husband and I moved into our house two years ago, the box spring got down via rope…and then wouldn’t go up our staircase in our house putting dents into the sheetrock. We ended up selling the box spring and purchasing a split queen box spring. I echo everyone else in saying that we want to see pictures of the house.

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    • Out the window! That’s hilarious. We once had to send a couch back that wouldn’t fut in our old basement

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  34. How fun! Enjoy your new home! I’ve lived in approximately a thousand places in the last few years (not a thousand, but almost a dozen), which is what happens when you’re doing the whole graduate student/multiple program type thing. I am looking forward to being in one place long enough to really decorate it and make it feel like home!

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  36. My hubby and I moved 6 times in the first 9 years of marriage: From Utah to China, to Texas, to California, to Japan, to Singapore and then we lived in Hong Kong where we stayed for many years. We raised our 4 kids in Asia, then moved back to Utah and it seems like every time we moved, my husband was out of town!! Our most recent move was to Taiwan but now we are in the States again. Moving is a pain but it is also such an exciting adventure!!! I loved every place we lived. Congratulations!!

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  38. How’d you keep it a secret? LOL.

    Also, my husband I have moved….6 times (I had to count LOL) in 8 years, one of those being at 6 months pregnant, a week after our wedding! We haven’t had any disasters, but I’m glad we’re buying the place we’re in now. I hate moving with a passion.

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  40. Congratulations on your move! What a surprise!

    House tour? As a lover of HGTV I love your house tours! Pretty please?!

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  42. Congratulations! We just recently moved out of Cville:(:(, in February, and it all went reasonably well. This was my first time working with professional movers, and I’m very glad that nothing substantial was broken! I’ll be looking forward to how you explore your new area-I hope your blog is going to keep me up to speed on the cool things in Cville!

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  43. I was moving out of my garden apartment and could not get my sofa through the door and up the stairs. My future father-n-law had to cut my sofa apart with a saw. Yes, I had to trash my very first sofa I bought with a saw because we could not leave it in the apartment and the landlord did not want it. How the heck did the furniture delivery people get it down there I will never know. lol!

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  46. Aaaah so exciting!!! Love what I have seen so far of the new house. You said you aren’t going to be doing a house tour post – are you changing the blog to being strictly about food? I totally loved your house and lifestyle posts in addition to the food posts. I’d miss the decorating and organizing tips if you did 🙁

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  47. Congrats on your new move Kath! Do you think this will now be your forever home? I only ask b/c we’ve been in our house 10 years. We planned on staying 5…LOL

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  48. Congrats! I echo what others have said about a house tour! I remember when you did the House Hunters type reveal on your last house. So fun. When did you move? Good luck, and enjoy creating new memories!

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  49. I would love a house tour of your new place! I know you just said you weren’t planning on it, but I love your style and am dying to know what the new place is like! Congrats! I will live vicariously through you as I live in a 500 square foot one bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village NYC.

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  51. When my hubby and I moved last summer, he drove a U-Haul for seven hours in the blazing August southern sun. The A/C cut out 30 minutes after he had been on the road! All the moving hiccups make for good stories later! 🙂

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  54. I thought something was up! The kitchen looked so different lately (definitely more light!)! Congrats! Were you house hunting at all or the perfect place just came available?

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  55. Congrats on the new house!!

    I too would love to see a tour. Maybe there’s a way to show off a few rooms while still retaining some privacy? pretty please! : )

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  57. Congratulations on your new house! It’s been so many years (30+) since I moved, I’m not sure I have a story to tell. I would love it if you post a tour of your new home!

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  59. Will you give us a glimpses of a few rooms at least? I absolutely love your home decor and organization posts – as an HGTV enthusiast and young home owner in search of my “forever home” – I look to them as inspiration. I am sure your new place is special given how incredible that porch of yours was.

    I am impressed at how quickly and seamlessly you completed such a big project. Wonder woman!

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  60. Aw, I notice you aren’t responding to the comments requesting more photos and some tours of the house!

    Those are my absolute favorite posts on this blog, you are so thoughtful and detailed with them. Please consider it! I understand those posts are a lot of work, but it would be very much appreciated by your followers!

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  63. I agree with everyone wanting photos, I love how you decorate and fun ideas, even just a small photo of room is exciting. Congrats! So exciting to be a place you can enjoy through the years.

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  64. Congrats on the new place! It looks so light & airy from the few pictures (especially love the kitchen!). Hope it will be your forever home 🙂

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  65. I know you said no grand house tour but I do hope you will show us around a bit. Especially since you feel this is now your forever home and you’ve always shown us your other homes. It’s fun to see what other people do with their homes and to get new ideas from the decor.

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    • I agree with others… I know you said no grand house tour but I would love it if you did! Love your style and neatness … Consider sharing please !!

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  67. Congrats on the new house! I hope you change your mind and will share some photos. I loved looking at your great decorating and organization ideas you had in your house. I was trying to convince my hubby we needed a porch like yours (it still hasn’t happened!)

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  68. Congratulations on your move!! I’ve been a reader since before you became an RD and I have found so much inspiration from you nutritionally, budgetarily, and decorationally (I don’t think that’s a word). I think people love your blog because you are so put together–and part of that has to do with how you run your home. Anyway, I will miss that a lot from your blog. I do realize you probably feel a need to retain some privacy for the sake of your family. It’s a tough call to make. But many congrats either way. It sounds like your move has brought nothing but joy to your lives. 🙂

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  69. Congrats! I hope you’ll share some pictures once you get settled. I love seeing where my favorite bloggers cook the meals they show us, write the posts we love to read, and play with the kids!

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  70. Ohhh Id love to see it if you ever get the inkling about showing your new home. Congratulations 🙂

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  71. I am surprised you moved after all the remodeling you did. I am packing to move as well. Texas to Michigan. Enjoy your new home Kath. M is soooo cute.

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  72. Oh WOW congratulations on the new home! And WHAAAT? No house tour? 🙁 You have given me so much inspiration with your beautiful home over the years. Love you guys! <3

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  73. Congrats on your new house! How fun and exciting! We moved from FL to PA years ago and discovered that we were missing many things including my jewelry box. It didn’t have any high priced items but many things that meant a lot to me. Plus, we think our attic wasn’t even packed. 🙁 Unfortunately we didn’t figure this out until months later. We moved from PA to TX two years ago and you can bet we kept ALL valuables with us this time and made sure we had everything upon delivery. Lesson learned. 😉

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  74. Oh congrats!!! I immediately thought “the porch!!” – I love that porch and have it saved in my “dream house” files! I hope your new place makes you just as happy. I’d also LOVE to see Home Neat Home make a comeback, but I understand if you’re not open to that anymore.

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