Remodeling Fun!

We are now into our 2nd month of our home remodel. What started with a slab leak in the kitchen kind of snowballed in an entire house remodel. When we bought this house 19 months ago, it had been on the market for over 2 years and vacant for 18 months. The outside of the house was completely overgrown with vines and ivy. The trees had not been trimmed in many years, and it was dangerous to walk through our yard - you would get poked with dead branches. It literally took 3 months of hard labor to cut down 8 trees and to trim and carry away all of the vines and branches. To make matters worse, we had a very large and ugly corner window on the front of the house, and the front door had a strange sunburst design on it. The neighbors had decided that the house was never going to sell :0)

We have bought, fixed up, and sold many houses, but this one was a little overwhelming. We just haven't had time to do anything with it since we adopted Mason in May. I'll admit that this remodel has been hard - there isn't a quiet, private place to go during the days that the crews are here. My house is covered in dust, 3 rooms of furniture are pushed together in the den, and we still can't use our master bathroom. But.....the end is in sight. The house will be wonderful when it is finished, and the men we have working on it are doing a fabulous job!

The master bath has probably undergone the biggest change. Randy ripped out the terrible fiberglass shower and took off the weird step that ran all the way around the tub. The wonderful craftsman who has done most of the structural work on the house, took 4 antique pillars and used them to rebuild our mirrors and the tub surround. The new shower is in, and the tile men will be back mid-April to tile around the tub and do the floors. Randy and I will paint the walls and trim, and then we will be finished and ready to move to the next room!

We only have one more ceiling to scrape, and the painter has started working on the living room ceiling and walls. My new front door went in today, the new front window will be in next week, and we are getting closer to a finished house everyday.

I am still wanting to find a smaller house in the country, but as this one looks better and better, it may be hard to leave!