This main page focuses on our family-life through photography and stories. In the links below you will find other aspects of our life including: “Journey to Joshua” which chronicles our adoption, “An Eagle's View” which is Charley's photo journal containing nature shots and sights from our travel, and "Scrappin' Like Crazy" which is Marianne's crafty website.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Rennovations



So here are a few of the things we have been doing in the past 4-6 weeks, since we moved into our house. YIKES!!! What a job! We had some wonderful friends, Don and Peggy who labored tirelessly to scrape the "popcorn" off the ceiling and then paint the ceiling and the paneling in the whole house. What a blessing that we could at least have it painted, carpet removed and somewhat cleaned before we moved into it!!


The house is about 1800 sq ft and sits on about 2 1/2 acres. Lots of trees and space.

Before we began the work.

This is the room we had our stuff stored in!!


Lots of stuff!!

The lovely pink carpet that we removed.

The lovely linoleum, which is still there, for now!

The kitchen peninsula that we tore out.

A crazy built in "desk" that we tore out.

The dining area.

Removal of the wall!


The wall and peninsula are gone!!


Here is where that "desk" was. We found this lovely little mouse nest under neath!
Joshua and Aunt Peggy making roads in the "popcorn" rubble.


Prepping to paint.


Scraping the ceiling.

Carpet removal with benefit of official supervisor!



The next big job is painting the kitchen cabinets which have this heinous layer of crud on them so just scraping them clean is quite a hefty task.


Not sure if the photo really does it justice, but this is the goopy stuff coming off the cabinet doors!


We will post "after" photos a bit later, after the mess is more cleaned up!!


4 comments:

Tricia said...

Can't wait to see the after photos. How exciting, but also a lot of work. :)

Amy E. said...

Mom said you guys had been busy..and you sure have!!
I know the place will look great when you finally have it all settled.

Anonymous said...

Oh my word. Did you guys buy this house or is it one of those "freebies while you're in the states"?

I don't know if I've ever seen so much paneling! Oh my. You guys are doing an amazing job. Can't wait to see the after photos.

Hey - we will be in the US Sept-Jan. My family is in AR so I imagine we'll be traveling around quite a bit. I hope we can get together.

Anonymous said...

Hey, the house looks great. I came across the site for your blog on my old computer and am glad to get caught up.
I hope we can get together this summer maybe. I would love to see you guys.
Dena