Adventures at The Bunny Manse

Starting to look like a house...not a construction zone.  In the past three days I've done at least 20 loads of laundry and thoroughly cleaned 5 rooms. Our kitchen may not have ever been this clean.  The painters covered everything and cleaned as they went and when they finished, but there's still a fine layer everywhere that we're washing off so Margot ingests less.  Harris spent the weekend replacing the porch flooring and rot at the Little House

This picture about sums it up.

my favorite new old saying. the painters will be almost totally done by.... tomorrow. ugh. Today, the two windows upstairs go back in! yay! and will need to be painted. Ugh. The bottom picture window is still not in. Sometime next week? UGH. Today the new washer/dryer come from Hope Depot for the rental house. This weekend Harris replaces the porch there. Good times. Next weekend we have a solid pull down the lean to and replace any fallen boards. That will be fun too! By August everything will have settled out. That's of course when the outside painting will be underway.

Day 2 of scraping, bondo, sanding.  Front door Downstairs hallway Staircase Stair landing

This weekend we decided to take the lattice off the front porch. We're getting ready for the painters and have looked over everything inside so many times it all runs together.  It was also about 85 all weekend so being outside was pleasant! We started by knocking out the lattice. Then Harris unscrewed the 1x6 screen that shielded the north side of the porch.  Pretty good until taking the boards back to the shed for playhouse construction a bungee cord whipped around the dolly and smacked him squarely in the jaw. He counted his teeth after that one. Today, fully rested and full of firework joy he set out to finish up. He pulled a nailing board up and part of the porch came up. Sunday thus became a daylong project of sistering the porch joist, rebuilding a railing, pulling down remaining boards,  and laying some new porch boards. I'm still impressed he managed to do this with only one HD trip and the loan o