Now... it's still a little unlivable, and.... it's still a little dirty... but it's starting to be pretty! And THAT, my friends, is progress!
I needed visible, tangible, progress.
And since it has been like another million years since my last update, I thought I would bring you up to speed on our project!
Where to start!? eeeek I don't even know!
I'll just do a quick run down for you of where things stand for us...
It's hard because everything is basically partially done, not fully done. But... for the sake of an update, here we go:
We'll start on the closest-to-being finished portion:
The bathroom!
This really was a necessity being the only legitimate area in the house to go to the bathroom. (sure.. we've gotten creative with some other locations but... we won't talk about that) So... when that one bathroom is basically an empty room it provides for issues for those of us working in the house. Especially those of us who have a baby pressing on a bladder that seems to be the size of a pea (pun intended). We have really nice neighbors who let us knock on their door and use their bathroom... and God bless the church near by for open doors and open bathrooms! :)
But really... it was time to have a working bathroom. And after many delays, and many issues... we have one! It's basically a tiled room with a toilet... but it's glorious!
The room is not complete. Our vanity is still a week out, and our faucets aren't installed and our towel rack, curtain rod, curtain and lighting aren't ready but... it's a pretty tiled room with a toilet! That's a win in my book!
We had some scary painting moments with that there wall... I'll do a paint-post one of these days and let you know about that moment or two of panic!
Since the painting is done Greg could finally get to all those outlets and change them out to bring them to the 21st century! All new electric, all new outlets + some! Glad he knows what he's doing... because I don't!
We have also logged quite a few hours at Home Depot and Lowes picking up a million little things and also some big things like trim, doors, and so on. Always an adventure! :)
It's hard being the pregnant one who has to sit in the car while her strong, able husband loads a crap-ton-o doors and trim into a truck bed that they don't fit in.
Here's hoping those don't end up all over the high way on our drive home!
A couple of close calls but... they made it to the house!
These are great moments.
So with that trim and those doors we got just about all of our interior doors installed. Bye-bye to the old, ugly ones. Hello to these pretty things!
We also own the hardware for all of them... I spent a nice long day with my brother picking it all out.
It's just... in boxes. Looking pretty in it's box and soon looking pretty on the doors. Once we paint them. But even unpainted and without hardware, the doors sure beat what was there.
Still on the door list are all of our exterior doors. Those should be installed sometime in the next two weeks! I can't wait to actually have a key to my own front door!
The former owners only had 1 key for the house, which opens the back garage door... and that's it. Awesome.
Also, one small accomplishment: We have painted almost the entire house!
The Kitchen is the only room waiting on some love... it's basically a dumping ground for all tools and supplies right now so we have done little to nothing in there. We'll get to it... eventually :)
Painting was rough. Not as rough as removing wall paper on the physical end. But choosing paint colors for every wall in a whole house requires lots of decisions and trials and time. Again, I am not the most stellar decision maker and pretty much regretted every paint choice I made at one point or another during the painting process. (I'll go into detail in my paint post! Get excited) :)
Greg took 3 days off work, Lucy got to spend lots of quality time with her Aunt Jess, her Grammy and her Pappy while Greg and I spent some quality time together doing all that painting.
I have to say... it was so fun! I love my husband, especially when we are both at that exhausted, over-it, giddy stage where everything is funny... because if it isn't funny we'd both just collapse and cry. It was a fun three days and very productive!!
The rooms aren't finished, decorated or anything... so it's just pretty walls. But PRETTY walls sure beat ugly, wallpapered walls or ugly plaster-falling-off walls.
At one point I was standing at the wall in the living room painting it for like the third time (paint nightmare story pending) and I was remembering the hours I had spent at that same location scraping and soaking and steaming and scraping and.... in that moment I was so thankful to have a roller in my hand for some normalcy!
Here is a sneak peek of my absolute FAVORITE painting job we did: The fireplace! It's white. It's perfect. It's SOOOOO pretty. :)
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| That, folks, is my husband and my pastor! He let me live with his family when I was homeless, fed me, still let me live under his roof after I flooded the place and almost killed his dog... and still he came to do the hard stuff and paint our living room. Thankful for my pastor being the church! |
THANK THE LORD FOR PRETTY!
The house is starting to look like I had hoped. I am so thankful, beyond words really, to be able to have taken a home and put our style and touches on it. It's been a nightmare, don't get me wrong... and we are still in the midst of it. But I am starting to see the end. That illusive light at the end of the tunnel. As long as I don't focus too much on the list that is still outstanding (wood flooring, carpeting, kitchen, garage, basement, lighting...) then I can sit myself down on my white fireplace hearth (cause there ain't no place to sit down in this house... I guess except now the toilet) and I can look at my pretty "Revere Pewter" walls and think... this will be home soon. Our home. Our small, simple but pretty home.
CAN NOT WAIT TO COME HOME!
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