Home Sweet Home

We have now been in our new home for a little over a month. After putting off starting this blog for about that same amount of time I figured today was a good day to drink a third cup of coffee and attempt something new. Neither of us have ever kept a blog before. Both of us fail pretty miserably when it comes to keeping and sort of written record or photographic record of anything (we have had an awesome digital camera for over a year now and still can't seem to remember to take it with us), so we shall see how this experiment to keep in touch with friends and family goes. Our apologies if we slack off and don't update as often as we should, it doesn't mean we don't like you. This post will be longer then most, as we have a full month worth of house renovation pictures to share. If you want to see more step by step pictures of the ongoing work I (Eric) am going to do my best to put them up on my facebook page. Not my facebook friend? I'll be yours if you add me.

Our Home Sweet Home. This picture was taken for us back in the fall. Since our first showing of the house up until today we are not totally sure what our yard looks like. This is what I see out the window as I type this.

When we closed at the end of January we were going to have to wait a week for our things to arrive via our POD from Pennsylvania. After a little consideration we decided to jump into our renovation project, which will eventually touch almost every room in the house, and take down some wallpaper and a wall.

We have also taken down the damaged plaster ceiling in this room and hung drywall in it's place.

Drywall in and ready for mudding. The lathe wall at the back will be coming partially down to open up to the kitchen. The walls and ceiling in this room will have venetian plaster.

Our most recent cool find in the house was underneath the kitchen floor. There is hardwood floor that matches the rest of the floors in the house under the linoleum! Even better, the linoleum is on plywood that had only been stapled to the floor.

That is a brief update on the house projects. 

Checklist for the rest of the week:

• Finish removing kitchen linoleum
• Remove hardwood floor in living room where slate hearth for woodstove will go in
• Remove hardwood floor in kitchen where kitchen will not be in future (details to come)
• Patch hardwood floor in living/dining room where original wall was located
• Sand first coat of drywall mud
• Remove corn stove in kitchen?
• Take down existing upper cabinets?
• Move existing electrical work in preparation for taking down kitchen wall
• Buy Hannah a birthday gift
• Find a job (hopefully)

Next Step: Go and eat lunch.

Peace,

Eric