Last night I came home from work to discover I have lawn. Lawn! No more mud, but a beautiful new front and back yard! Not to mention gardens waiting for plants. After nearly 9 months of living in, walking through and picking my way around mud. Finally! Despite the fact that we’re nearing the end…
Category: Renovations!
Summertime and the weather is…?
Holy smokes. It’s been well over a month since I last posted. Bad Sarah. Boo. Sorry. We got our deck put in late June and then I just got down to enjoying summer. We’ve been on the road virtually every weekend since mid-June! I’m very excited that after a very long wait, our landscaping has…
Settling into 2014
Well hello 2014. I’ve been a bit tardy on the blog lately as we had one hell of a December. We got moved in, although later than we’d hoped. We had been in for precisely one week when the ice storm hit and cut off our power for three and a half days. This was…
We are in!
It’s been a bit of a bumpy start but we are home, sweet home! I say bumpy because when we arrived, the upstairs bedrooms were freezing cold, and the basement was roaring hot; we discovered we didn’t have a working shower and had to live without for days, and well, the place was — and…
Rural life
So our move hasn’t gone quite according to plan. We did move one big load of our belongings to the new house on December 7, but the house wasn’t ready for us to live in it yet, so we piled our stuff in the rooms that were finished and turned right around and came back….
One week left
This is it! Our last week before we move into the new house. I wasn’t sure a week ago if things would be ready but now it’s looking very close indeed. It’s amazing how much can happen in a short time. As of Friday night I started a much needed vacation — originally I booked…
Island and cabinetry
Our kitchen island has been installed (no countertop yet), as well as the beginnings of the living room cabinetry. Everything is a little saw dusty but otherwise looking fabulous. I’m not yet sure when the new Ikea cabinet facings will go in but likely soon. The beginning stages of our move start this weekend —…
I messed up
So… I kinda screwed up. The kitchen cabinets were installed last week, and it soon became clear that something was wrong. See those cabinets? Do they look pink to you? Yeah. I thought so too. And so did Chris. And so we found ourselves at Ikea on Saturday morning looking at their display of cabinet…
Soon, drywall
Slowly but surely, our house renovation is moving along. Almost all our new windows have been installed. We weren’t planning on doing that upstairs one at the front of the house, until we saw how awful it looked next to the brand new ones, so that one has been ordered to. By the way I…
Chugging along
Our massive renovation project is chugging along. Plumbing and electrical have been mostly done. My central vacuum (YAY!) is going in, and this past holiday weekend Chris spent installing all the speaker and network wiring. Because we’re doing spray foam insulation, we have to anticipate as much future wiring needs as possible and get it…