Friday, October 17, 2008

Wanted: Walls

Older home seeks white walls to spend lots of quality time with. Must be available immediately and like small children.
(hee hee okay enough of that)

Anyway, as you can see, the kitchen and bath continues to be demolished and rebuilt.

These are our "happy workers" who have taken on the project of not only removing some wall to extend the kitchen for the refrigerator, but also are creating a back hallway area. It is a great idea, however, it is more work for them. But I am told they like pie...

And this picture above is the gutted bathroom. Well except for the ugly flooring that hasn't been ripped up yet.

And here is a picture of our "new" basement. We had to have some steel posts put along one wall so it doesn't lean any more than it is. Isn't that a lovely fashion statement?

And here are our cherubs delighting in the old cabinets that have been cast aside in the living room for the time being. A really fun game is opening all the doors and then "sneaking" through since there's no back side to them. If we can squeeze them down the basement steps, we are going to try to salvage some of these for storage and laundry stuff in the basement. We'll see if we still have energy by the time we get to that step.

And finally, I had to post this picture since I got one of Carterbud actually SMILING!!! and HIS EYES OPEN AT THE SAME TIME!! He is really a fan of brooms, dust pans, and vacuum cleaners right now. He LOVES to push those things around. And since there is lots of stuff to sweep with all the demolition going on, what better play area could there be?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Our crazy new house

Okay, I've been getting lots of questions about the house...so here goes! I have a bunch of pictures downloaded here so you can see what it looks like now. I'll be posting lots of pics of the changes taking place, mostly inside. Then of course, there will be "after" pictures. Not sure when we'll be moving in...depends on when our cabinets and countertops come in. Supposed to take 3-4 weeks. But that's okay because we have a lot of priming, painting, and floor sanding to do inside. And with football still going on, our time to work over there consists solely of the weekends.

As you can see from the picture, the outside is yellow and it has a one-car garage.

This picture is standing just inside the front door looking from the living room to the dining room.



This picture is looking from the dining room into the kitchen. The kitchen and bathroom are being all torn out and redone. The kitchen right now is down to the studs at the moment. I just keep forgetting to take my camera over. I have to go back later today so I'll try to take some pictures of what it looks like today. Our contractor was getting the cabinets and countertops ordered today. Yippee!