Howdy!
Condolences to Debbi. I like space. Lots of it. When we bought this home 12 yrs. ago, a friend & a neighbor both asked, "What will you do w/ all this space when your boys move out?" We laughed. Do? Why, enjoy it, of course. Enjoy it all to ourselves! ;-D We've made do w/ 800 sq. ft,
1200 sq ft (S.F.Bay Area homes), 1500 sq. ft, and now 2600 sq ft, which is not all that big in the grander scale of New Homes in this area (which aren't all that big compared to New Homes in Fast Growing parts of the country, those that are now suffering from Can't Afford This Big Home -itis).Tenting for termites: is this The Way it's done out there? Here they drill thru' the foundation slab, pump in "treatment" chemicals, drill thru' the walls and around the wet areas to get to the creepy little malicious basta.. er.. critters. Bug Man puts a "protective barrier" around the home to keep the termites from coming back for a while. No tents. (My carpenter dad was also a Bug Man for years; it's a wonder we don't all have 3 arms and 5 eyeballs; he loved Chlorane; f-i-l loved 2,4,5-T [aka agent orange] for killing mesquite trees & brush.)
Meanwhile, good luck w/ the moving; LABEL everything, EVERY thing, if you want to find what you want in the next 2 yrs.; we always end up w/ stuff we don't recognize, after a house move. Quilting maintains sanity. Sometimes.
Cheers! R/Sandy - moving things out of the Tuff Shed so I can move out the Christmas stuff & move in the autumn stuff & see what's new... ;-D