So much accomplished!

1. Windows
2. Entry tile
3. Flooring (Carpet and Wood)


I still need to take a few more pictures. Looking good!

Here it is!

Took a long time, about 2 months to design and 10 weeks to build. We love it!

Almost a Kitchen!

Not too much to say except, "its almost finished"!!!

Painting and chandelier.

       Here are some pictures of us painting. Well, I should say us, since I didn't paint. I watched children while Tom and my parents painted.  In this group of pictures there is also a picture of the light on the stairway. You can see we replaced it and I love the new one!

Tom just loves painting, in flip flops.

We had the popcorn removed first. You can see the old windows below too. The new ones are white and framed with molding. 

Hard to see, but its the old light. I think Spencer may have taken this picture.

Yeah! New light.

The Kitchen, Part I

Here is... or should I say was, the kitchen. Yeah! It's gone. No smell anymore either.  Wait... did I tell you about the smelly moldy cabinets?  There were three different leaks under the sink. The bottom cabinets are all open to each other so the musty/moldy smell was in all of them.  Tom used our industry favorite, 10% bleach solution to disinfect each piece as it was removed from the house. He also enclosed the room with plastic (thank you Dexter and Holmes on Homes).  We just picked out our slab of granite.  It only took maybe 2 months of looking at slab yards.  We used to go in and look for ones we liked, then after a few times we just started asking the price first. 

  To be continued.....

 

This is the kitchen and family room before we moved in. I am looking for the pictures where its empty of the tenant's belongings.

The plastic really kept the smell in, hopefully the mold too.

 The source of the water was the leaky kitchen sink, faucet and pipes.

The moldy cabinets were removed first with much care.

This is our beautiful new pony wall for behind the sink. 

 

 Our new counter  top, Rainforest Green. To me it reminds me of Michelangelo's Sistine chapel. The veins look like the hands reaching to each other.

Baby Steps

         It's hard to do something big when there are so many things to do.  I tell people, "you don't understand, everything has to be replaced"! So here are a few examples of some of the small steps we have made. The first one is a light fixture off the dinning room.  I think this picture puts the whole project in perspective. You can also see that we got a new sliding glass door in the picture on the right. We haven't painted the trim yet so its just white primer. And honestly I haven't picked the color for the trim.  To many other decisions to make regarding the kitchen. The other picture is of our new gate. We had the house tented for termites and the gate was practically hallow. Tom stained it with our favorite, Redwood 402, from home depot.