Renovation Update

Well we took the other week off to knock out a lot of work on our house. Overall it was a great experience, Chris and I survived and so did our marriage. We really enjoyed taking the week off and enjoyed the time together in making our house our own. Although there were many late nights we were well rested come Monday morning when we both returned to work.

Friday night was the start of it all, our friends the Ormesher's came over and helped demolish our kitchen cabinets and Jonathan even helped build a little bit of our island. Bedtime: 1:30am.

Saturday we woke up, our attic was exposed a little so it was freezing in our house. We had a quick breakfast and got to work. Today our friends the O'Dowds came by to help finish demolishing the cabinets and work a little on the wall placement. We continued to rip down all of the drywall basically throughout our entire living space since the builder in the 70's did such a hatchet job on it. Bedtime: Unknown... I've slept since then...

Sunday we took a break in the morning time and went over to have breakfast with our small group. Once we got home we moved a lot of the demolished stuff out to the curb. Thank the Lord for bulk pick-up, that's a post for another day. We continued to rip out the cabinets and worked on framing some of the new walls. Our friends the Heltons came over and helped put up some drywall and work on our annoying kitchen laminate. Bedtime: 1-2ish

Monday some of the guys came over to work on stuff with Chris like plumbing and lighting and stuff. Once everyone ended up leaving we started the never ending drywall extravaganza. I guess whoever built our house didn't place the studs at the typical spacing, so we basically had to cut every piece down. We both had carple tunnel since we couldn't move our hands the next day. I am just thankful we finally got the fire place covered up. Bedtime: 2:30ish

Tuesday we had more work being done on the house, we had to kind of just sit around and make sure everything was getting done the way we wanted it to. We continued to work on drywall into the wee hours of the night, like around 4:30.Jonathan came over to help, which was a big help. We were supposed to have the texture people in on Wednesday but Chris and I were so exhausted that we stopped at 4:30 and called it a night. Little did we know that we would not have hot water to wash up after a long days work. It was miserable, but I just wanted to hop into bed at that point in time.

Wednesday Chris woke up early to call the painter and cancel, he wasn't too happy with us. But we can only do so much, you know. Anyways so we basically worked on the drywall for the entire day and Lauren and Brice even came over before small group to help out. We didn't go to bed until around 3:00. There was absolutely no way we could have gotten the drywall done Tuesday night if it took us an entire day to get where we needed to be. We worked like a team and got through it all.

Thursday the texture crew showed up and did their thing. And our space finally took shape. We stayed out of their way, mostly back in our bedroom just reading and catching up on Chuck and the Office. After they left we worked on a few odds and ends. We rented a floor scraper to get up the 30 year linoleum. We were able to get it up in about 30 minutes... I would highly recommend it if you are in the predicament we were in. It was just impossible to get up with hand scrapers.

Friday the texture crew showed up for the morning and we continued to work on small things, mostly making trips to and from Home Depot. After the stuff in the kitchen dried we began to lay out the cabinets and get some of that started. Our friends the Forte's came over to help. They brought their boxer Tiki and she played/wore out Ty. Then our friends the O'Dowds came over and helped with the cabinets and scrape the floors. Bedtime: Midnight-thirty

Saturday we were held captive in our bedroom for most of the afternoon since our texture guys were retexturing basically half of our house. We finally took a little time off to go out to eat and relax.

Sunday we continued to install some cabinets and we were done for the week.

That being said here's some pictures of our semi-finished product. We definitely have more work to do, but we are taking it one step at a time. Our next goals are to install the flooring, and cabinet hardware and paint along with a HUGE list of little things.