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We debated about whether or not to tear out the kitchen. We’d probably be moved in if we hadn’t torn it out.
I can’t help but think we made the right choice, even though this is arguably the most work we’ve done in one room yet.
Behold, the wall transformation:
That’s brick-patterned wallpaper. Complete with soot from some past toaster fire or something.
I’m loving the red walls, complemented by a tasty brown.
This kitchen is going to be awesome.
Prize Mania! Thank you kids for picking up sticks!
Sean has been having knee trouble and our calendar has been filled with a plethera of family and church and school events. Combined, this means that work has stalled out a bit at the new house.
The good news is that the deadline to be out of our current house has been extended to December. We would still love to be living in the new house before school starts in the fall, but we do have some breathing room in case that becomes an impossibility.
The only things we’ve accomplished in the past couple of weeks are puttering sorts of projects. The drains have been assembled and I discovered that I should have installed the bathroom door before I put in the cement board on the floor… ergh. Modification and rework. The bane of my existence. And a reality of working on an old house when you don’t really know what you’re doing.
A fresh dumpster is in place for some more destruction, but we really need to get that darned bathroom working before we make an all-out call for help.
Phase one is the bathroom. Believe me, that’s enough. Once we finish that, we can move on to phase two projects: roof, windows, and stairs. Phase three involves the rest of the interior finishing. Electrical updating and sheetrocking bedrooms. Paint, carpet, trim. Sanding and finishing the floors.
I feel so far away from painting anything. I can’t even begin to think about color schemes and decorating.
Because of Sean’s knee and the amount of work involved in a full tear off of asphalt and wood shakes on a 12/12 pitch with all new underlayment required, we are getting bids on the roof. And we talked to our friendly local excavator about roughing in the new driveway, even though we won’t have a garage built for awhile.
Right now the driveway is shared with our neighbors. They seem like lovely people but since we’re planning to build a garage on the opposite side of the property anyway, it only makes sense to put in our own driveway.
We are tapping a resource on some windows for a deep discount… and another resource for helping us to rebuild the stairs…
Too many irons in the fire!
Meanwhile, the kids have been busy exploring the new yard. We put up some swings in an ancient ash tree in the front yard for them to fight over. Spring blooming has revealed two large clusters of lilacs and a mature apple tree. That makes me smile (makes Sean cringe).
New and old maples, pines, and birches spatter the perimeter. There’s a huge old nut tree of some kind in the front too. I wish I had more tree knowledge!
Well, enough of this rambling post. Lots of stuff in the works, nothing getting finished… this is the state of things.
Yes, there’s a hole where the toilet will be! And a hole for the heat duct. The cement board is installed and ready for the tile.
The washer and dryer will be stacked next to the chimney wall, with a linen cabinet to the left of the outlet (between the tub and the washer/dryer).
Not all of the electrical work was finished when the inspector showed up last week, so we can’t finish putting up the drywall quite yet.
Look! A light switch to the right… this is the back of the new bathroom wall. It works a light in the ceiling of the living room where there was no light fixture before.
I realize we’re not changing the face of the planet or anything, but man it feels nice to put something together and turn on a switch and have it work!
The next shot documents some exploratory destruction. We are going to rip out and replace the stairs and we needed to see if we could tear out this little spot for more head room… looks like it used to be a small storage cavity.
Newspapers lined the floor… since 1961. We saw headlines featuring JFK. And Martin Luther King, Jr. marching and getting arrested along with his fellow ‘negroes’.
How do you spell linoleum? Not sure. But Sean tore some out of the big kids’ bedroom. I wonder if we should be trying to spell asbestos…
The bathroom is hereby officially gutted like a fish.
Now the girls can pee outside with the guys.
The view from the shower.
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