It is time to move along

We have decided to sell our house in Austin; we want to be in a town house, or some other kind of condo. We have never been in the living room, and have used the dining room only once. After all the time, effort, and money, that has been put into this house: it feels like the parts we do use are just to small. Too much of the house goes unused. The kitchen and family room are where we live. I would like them to be larger and all open. I don’t think I want a living room at all, unless it is just a very large room, it must open into the kitchen. We do not have sit down dinners any longer, we are still having people to dinner at least twice a month, but it is all very laid back casual. Last week we had people to dinner twice and both were very simple serve yourself and eat where you may kind of affairs both great, but the dining room goes unused just collecting dust. We don’t have holidays at our house so none of this is needed any longer. And we definitely do NOT want a yard, the water is just too expensive and precious to use on a lawn. I want a balcony and a pot, just big enough for four chairs and a table nothing else. I must have been crazy in VA. To have all that outdoor space and the upkeep, WOW what was I thinking? We hardly ever went out there, and when we did we crowded around the patio doors and never went to the other seating and dining areas on that huge patio. I even had it made twice as large as it was to begin with. I must have been crazy. I certainly did not go that way in the North Austin house it actually has remained quite like it was upon my arrival. Except for adding floor to ceiling windows in the living room, 2 sliders in the family room, adding a third back door, creating a laundry room, moving the kitchen, redoing both bathrooms’ new windows, and of course the new front door and those Interior fixtures used as outside lighting on the front of the house. A few other things like changing all the closet doors, and replacing most all the flooring, and adding MIRRORS yes mirrors. But any way it’s time to stop and just move along…and maybe simplify. Anyway I’ve never met a house I didn’t want to decorate…