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We went ahead with the kitchen

We planned for months to work on the kitchen in March. Welp. We went ahead and did it. Nights, weekends, after I finished my paid work, while the girls were napping, while they watched their 4pm tv, while they played in the yard, stolen hours to create a whole.   For the past 6-7 years of living in the house, this is what our kitchen wall looked like. Not bad, not amazing.  And wait until you open the door to the other side.  March I say WE but Harris did all of this. He took what was a messy and dangerous and dark/cluttered cramped section of the house that used to be a porch and utility room and turned it into our breakfast nook/solarium/kitchen annex/glorybeautiful light filled space. We don't even have to turn the lights on most days. The first part of the project focused on deconstructing the pieces/rooms and salvaging almost all of the wood to be used in portions of the project or in other on-going projects. If I had let him demo it he woul...
I just posted a ton of pictures without any content. This is because I see this as a place to collect and frame my thoughts about the house process with some images to trigger the ideas. We're so close. After this last stage (paint, gutters) we have some tile repair in one bathroom, some tile work in another bathroom + installing new fixtures, and then we just have PHASE 4 which is master bedroom + sunroom. We're not doing PHASE 4 for awhile. We need to pay off some credit cards and the like. Oh? You didn't know that at some point everyone who is not independently wealthy puts part of their renovation on credit cards balancing who has to be paid in cash and who you can float? You didn't realize that 0% interest for 12-18 month cards will provide you an interest free loan to buy materials that you then pay off in installments or move the money to other 0% cards? Yeah. We've got probably $30k of our project sitting out there on 0% credit cards right now + an equ...

scraping and sanding pretty woodwork

That bathroom ceiling...

I kind of like the look of the raw pine. Harris put it up thinking I would fill holes and we would paint it. Maybe we should just poly it instead? Thoughts?