It Didn't Start With the Wisteria
The dedicated reader will recall the first post to this blog involved an overgrown wisteria and a professional grade chipper. This might lead the reader to believe that the wisteria was the first project around here. That would be inaccurate.
Additional detail will be provided in further posts, but here are the highlights of the home renovation completed pre-baby. For reference, move in date was August 8, 2005. Baby due date was October 20, 2005. Baby arrival was October 16, 2005. Here's the timeline:
August 8: This sucks!
Officially a really sucky day involving: work, damaging an uninsured moving van, a car accident in our personal vehicle, an emergency trip to labor and delivery and our first night in our new home.
August 9: What's that smell?
Recognition that the incredibly disgusting stench emanating from the guest bathroom would require that the bathroom remodel move up on the priority list (stench ultimately traced to a moldy cup of Starbucks left in the vanity and soaked into the vanity plywood). Ripped out entire vanity.
August 15-17: We really know how to party
Painting "party" involving all the family we could rope in and priming and painting the entire interior of the house (including trim)
August 17-30 (approx): Bye bye carpet
Ripping up all the carpet to reveal hardwood floors in bad condition and a hallway made of patched plywood. Installing new hardwood in hall and refinishing all hardwoods.
September-October: Pregnant ladies pee a alot
But fortunately this house has 2 bathrooms. Remind me to tell you about redoing our ONLY bathroom in the former house. Gutted the guest bathroom down to the studs and then put it all back. The vanity was installed October 14. We still don't have a medicine cabinet
Despite the fumes, our baby is incredibly normal! Those waterbased finishes are good stuff.
Additional detail will be provided in further posts, but here are the highlights of the home renovation completed pre-baby. For reference, move in date was August 8, 2005. Baby due date was October 20, 2005. Baby arrival was October 16, 2005. Here's the timeline:
August 8: This sucks!
Officially a really sucky day involving: work, damaging an uninsured moving van, a car accident in our personal vehicle, an emergency trip to labor and delivery and our first night in our new home.
August 9: What's that smell?
Recognition that the incredibly disgusting stench emanating from the guest bathroom would require that the bathroom remodel move up on the priority list (stench ultimately traced to a moldy cup of Starbucks left in the vanity and soaked into the vanity plywood). Ripped out entire vanity.
August 15-17: We really know how to party
Painting "party" involving all the family we could rope in and priming and painting the entire interior of the house (including trim)
August 17-30 (approx): Bye bye carpet
Ripping up all the carpet to reveal hardwood floors in bad condition and a hallway made of patched plywood. Installing new hardwood in hall and refinishing all hardwoods.
September-October: Pregnant ladies pee a alot
But fortunately this house has 2 bathrooms. Remind me to tell you about redoing our ONLY bathroom in the former house. Gutted the guest bathroom down to the studs and then put it all back. The vanity was installed October 14. We still don't have a medicine cabinet
Despite the fumes, our baby is incredibly normal! Those waterbased finishes are good stuff.
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