Things are coming back together!

Last week was not very exciting in term of pictures but very productive. All our electricity was put in/fixed, and our drywall was all repaired and the front rooms were retextured. 

 This week as been more far more 'exciting in ways of changes. It started out with our fireplace being installed. We decided to go for a gas linear fireplace (a little bit of a splurge to tell you the truth) because it seemed to fit the space better. We decided to not stone the entire fireplace but planked it.

 And there has been a crazy amount of painting. I've really appreciated anyone who's come out and helped. You have helped far more than you know (Well you and the paint sprayer ;) Sorry I don't have photos of everyone :)

 

 Outside we've knocked all those weeds in the back yard down as well as walked the yard for all the debris that was back there (rebar, old balls, stone, scrap fencing, etc.) In the front yard Jeremy's nephew came and took out our front bushes (juniper) That last photo does not capture the size of pile that was created by those huge overgrown bushes.

Ah, last but not least. Our incredibly full garbage can which I did not think originally we were going to fill.  

And that has basically been our last 2 weeks. This week is flooring, molding, finishing up painting, cleaning, and moving in. It's going to be crazy.

It's amazing what a few walls and red carpet can do.

We are officially out of Demo phase and now into crap we have to put this all back together phase. Okay I have to do a before and after comparison because I'm tripping out with our progress. So far we have gotten all the walls out, cabinets and sofit removed in kitchen, all the popcorn ceiling scrapped (even the painted ones in the living room), all old carpet removed and new carpet in the back rooms, french door created in office, electricity is 85% complete and our new hvac system is scheduled out. We are making choices on the fireplace (deciding what we are doing still) but everything else is ordered and waiting completion. Okay now for the pictures!

Before                                                      After

 The office/playroom off to the left. 

 The rubble which is finally cleaned up (it took me forever to get it all up and I even hired out my nephew to help)

 

Before

 

 After

 

Opposite view 

Before:

After: (I of course took this photo before I cleaned the kitchen - which ended up being my last task yesterday)

And just because I am in love with my new carpet.

Still need to paint the bedrooms (sigh) but its amazing what you can do in a day.

That's it folks!

Our to do's for phase 1

I have the biggest list ever for our to do's on this house. And I will probably even post a 'complete' list of my ideas one of these days but here is phase one - what we are doing right now.

We are fixing somethings that were found in the inspections report: Flooring, painting, depopcorning ceilings, some minor electrical work, a new water pump (I know, sexy right?) fix a gutter, and other minor issues.

Now to the funner things!

We are blowing out some walls. The entry way (below) has 4 standard doors and a hall way off of it. We are taking the entire right wall except for a small portion. The door to the left is being widen for a double door (Future barn door?) and the wall directly in front is being taken out (at least the view you can see.

The living room looks completely different. The stone was completely removed from the fireplace, the wall leading to the dining room is now gone, and the wall to the hall has been taken back pretty much to the yellow chair.

 

In the kitchen the cabinet and the overhead soffit connected to it has been taken out to allow for more light. Down the line (but in the near future) I will be resurfacing the counter tops and painting the cabinets.

I'll do a better update of photos later but for now you'll have to be happy with my camera phone shots as I have left my camera at the job.

Ah, the rubble in my life...

That second photo I cleaned up a lot before I took that photo. As a matter of fact it was a victory picture.