Category: Renovations

  Our to-do list just got longer, and our time-frame just got shorter!  Ryan and I are so excited to announce that we are expecting a baby in May! In order to have a nursery for our little bundle of joy, we are going to have to renovate a room for ourselves.  We are hoping…

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It seems like our fall checklist may have just turned into a winter checklist!  We have a few more outdoor projects we need to finish before we can move onto indoor projects.  After a lot of hard work, the guys have almost all of the siding finished.   They spent last weekend working on the…

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I hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend!  I sure enjoyed watching the boys work hard on the siding.  We had cold and rainy weather that was perfect for siding.  Ryan and my dad worked really hard and got a lot done. As a reminder, here is what we started with:   Then we pulled…

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Over the last couple of weeks we have been trying to prepare for siding.  We had a couple of windows left to replace before we could move forward.  We finally have all of our new windows in and most of the house wrap is on! We had a couple of bad windows upstairs.  The two…

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One of my favorite things to do is look back to where we were one year ago.  Today I was reviewing some old pictures and was shocked about where we were a year ago. Here’s where we were with the kitchen:   And the bathroom:     And the furnace closet/room (with no subfloor yet):…

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We have been jumping around a lot on our projects, so bear with us!  Today we are back to the pantry.  Yesterday Ryan pulled up the old flooring and my dad helped us put in new support.  Some of the floor joists had water damage and needed support added.  This also allowed us to level…

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We have been working hard today to get the siding off of the house.  Our local dump is having a Town Cleanup Day where you can drop anything off for free.  So, the siding has got to go!  We are only taking off the outermost layer so that we have a smooth place to put…

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  We recently finished the built-in shelving unit in our bathroom.  As I was preparing to write a post, I noticed that I haven’t done a bathroom update in months!  We are all settled in now and only need trim, which will be coming along soon.  I will write a separate update about the shelving…

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It’s hard to imagine the pantry as a place to store food after the nasty things we discovered today. We gutted the walls down to the studs, which was definitely the most disgusting job we have done so far.  The window must have had some leaking issues, as well as the roof, so we had…

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In our office we have a few extra bins of kitchen stuff that just doesn’t fit in the kitchen right now.  Luckily, we have a small room located off of the kitchen that will work great as a pantry.  It is in rough shape.   There is a door that leads into the backyard, but…

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