progress

the big news? we moved (august 18)! we sold our house (august 30)!

the bad (good?) news? we've been SUPER BUSY. No sleep busy. well, not quite that busy, but we are both exhausted.

after all the planning we did in the last post, its all starting to fall into place. before the big move, we had a lot to get done. we finished all of the major demo on the house (porch/new kitchen, living room, dining room, 2nd bathroom, master bedroom closets, and various other spots throughout the house). ian framed in for the new windows in the kitchen, office, living room + master bedroom, along with framing in for all the pocket doors. he also installed the new sliding glass doors in the kitchen and master bedroom, repaired all of the walls, drywalled the new kitchen, framed + drywalled our office closet, and built the new "dividing wall" in the master bedroom... making the space for the new master bath.

we outsourced the drywall finishing, due to timing and our desire for flat, smooth walls :) we also outsourced the retaining wall in the back of the house. the existing railroad ties were rotting + filled with carpenter bees, so we had those taken away and replaced with boulders. our landscaper even built our last minute request for steps that went nowhere :)

we rented a floor sander and removed the brown paint from the entire house, and after much trial and error, ended up with beautifully grey-ed pine floors. (since then sydney has scratched them horribly... but... we knew it would eventually happen).

the interior of the house is painted white, with 2 accent walls: a grey one in london's room, and a black one on the fireplace wall in the living room.

MOVING DAY!! 2 trips, 1 car accident, and many boston creme donuts later, we had a house full of boxes.

(after the official "move" we spent the next week and a half cleaning up the old house, packing up the remaining items, and closing on the house.) YAY!

fast forward 1 1/2 months...

we've made alot of progress on the kitchen: i built the cabinets and ian installed them. he also ran the gas line into the kitchen and hooked up the stove, so we've been able to do more than just grill :) we installed the butcher block countertop and put in all the drawers and door fronts. our new kitchen is the old porch, so it has a concrete slab floor. ian had to jackhammer out a hole for the new plumbing, and crawl under the house and dig thru the dirt to run the pipes. crossing my fingers that we'll have a sink installed in the next few weeks :)

we tiled + grouted the laundry room and ian finished running the necessary electrical work, vented the dryer and hooked up the new washer + dryer. i had never been so excited to do laundry!

our special order doors and windows arrived a few weeks ago, just in time for the chilly weather. our goal was to get the "new" windows installed, since we only have a thin layer of wood protecting us from the elements. ian has installed all of those (with the exception of the 2 sidelights to the sliding door that we still need to order). the house is already transformed with natural light filling the space. ian plans to tackle one "replacement" window an evening. we still need to decide on the final size and type of window for the kitchen "backsplash". we had originally planned for it to be a large picture window, but now i'm thinking a slider would be great for cross-ventilation.

alongside all of these improvements, we've started to work on the main bathroom. i gutted the bathroom before we moved in; however, when we pulled up the flooring, we realized the subfloor was in such bad shape, and ian had to replace it. since then, he's framed in the side of the wall where the plumbing will be, and installed the tub. while he was under the house running the kitchen plumbing, he moved all the plumbing for this bathroom too.

at this point i feel like i should be posting some "after" or "progress" photos... but... to be honest, i just don't have the time! i've been dealing with a bad cold for the past few weeks and that in itself is slowing down our progress. along with our almost 3 year old who now refused to nap on weekends ;)

give me a few weeks... hopefully then i'll have some photo reveals :)