Demolition!

Hello there! I have had an incredibly trying day! I hope yours is going better than mine!!

Anyway, on to the home demolition. Let me say, we started the demo and got the house in "move in condition" in 8 weeks.

here we go!

Remember this??


Already looks better huh? Those cabinets were original to the house and hard as heck to get out!!!!
We ended up having to rip out all the drywall along one wall in the kitchen to move the plumbing for the new sink. The bathroom is on the other side of that wall.
Now we were going try try and salvage this cabinetry, and I was going to paint it. Then I decided that since the house has no dedicated dining room that this part should be the dining room. So all the cabinets had to come out. It really was a shame, good quality, ugly, but good quality. And again hard to get out!!!

No more cabinets and no more flooring!!
This is the opposite side of the kitchen. It had a tiny pantry. We decided that we would take the water heater from the bathroom and move it here. Dry wall over it and make it accessible from the garage. This may have been a bad decision to get rid of the pantry, but the water heater took up like half of the ONLY bathroom.

Snug in its new home.
eek. I cringe at the site.
already much better huh??

Next come the good stuff!!! Paint and these beauties
ohhh la la!! Can't wait to show you!

My Biggest Project!

Back in August, 2009. Sam and I decided to buy a house from my mom. We knew that before we could live there we would basically need to GUT IT. Here is why.


Reason number one, it was just plain ugly. lol. This is the den.

Hallway from the living room looking down to the bedrooms. YIKES!!
And the kitchen from all angles....frightening. I know at this point you all must think that I am completely NUTS!!

The bathroom.....no words. Now at this point I should say my mom DID NOT live in this house in this condition. Just to clarify. Ha ha!
Smallest of three bedrooms.
What we call the "master". This house was built in the 50's. I think that it would be considered a "cookie cutter" All of the bedrooms are really small including this one. That is one downside. Also there is only one bathroom. :(I cant find before pictures of the living room. But the plus side to this house (beside the fact that it was dirt cheap) is the living space. The kitchen is completely open to the den, which was an add on in the late 70's early 80's. When they did the add on they added this little gem, or should i say BIG gem. The fireplace takes up almost the entire east wall of the den. I love it.
Phase two "gutting" will be the next post. I know the suspense will kill you!!

Recently

Well its been a while since I have been on here. I told myself that I would keep up with this, much like I told myself that I would write in my diary. Yea right. I bet every diary that I ever started had no more than 5 entries. But actually I started one after Sam left and I think that one made it to about 20. Lets hope I have better luck with this. So what has been going on with me you ask?

Last time I wrote, we were recovering from a HUGE winter storm. Well we are yet again recovering from another. It was pretty crazy around here....All the lanes were open at Wal-Mart on Wednesday because they were forecasting the storm to be here by Thursday morning. Bread, milk, eggs, flashlights, all gone. The storm wasn't as bad as they thought that it would be, but better that way than worse than they thought it would be.



Thursday, it was freezing rain all day, and then Friday around 11 a.m. it started snowing. I am guessing that we probably got at least 5 inches, maybe 6. So we are snowed in again. Although, I don't think that the roads are as bad this time. Hopefully I will get my car thawed out tomorrow. For now, Miranda and I are hanging out at the house.

Great news, the ugly old pool table is gone!!!!I feel like I have a whole new house!!!!! Now I finally had room for a big chair and ottoman! So Miranda and I ventured out in search of the perfect chair. I wanted an accent chair, something with a print. BUT I also really wanted to only spend 300.00....that was pretty much impossible. Miranda and I looked and looked. FINALLY I found something that caught my eye in the discontinued room.So I ended up with this little gem! With tax and all it was 298.00!!! So needless to say, I have been planted in it for weeks!! Unfortunately it looks like I have some competition....Other happenings...

Put up some Valentines Day stuff


Unfortunately my Christmas stuff is still in the living room....Got these really cute lanterns at Garden RidgeAnd if you don't have a Scentsy Pot, you have got to get one of these!!!!

And, if you don't have one of theseGet one.

My birthday countdown officially begins on Tuesday!! Two weeks until the big 2-4! i can't believe it. Hopefully I get an awesome present!! ;)