October 31, 2019 aka "The year Jase got sheet faced" Happy Halloween! We have had a wonderful day! I was so happy that Ty wanted to Trick-or-Treat this year. We got home and were getting ready to go and I got a text from his best friend asking if Ty could go with "the boys". WAHHHHH So, my heart cried a little bit,...
October 26, 27, & 29, 2019 My parents are awesome. The live about 2 hours away drove here and back THREE days to help us. On Saturday, we tackled the shower- the hot water wasn't working. But after awhile we finally got it figured out and we have HOT water in the main bathroom! No more showers in our "scary" second bathroom. After...
October 21 & 22, 2019 We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel in terms of demolition. We working on getting the sink, dishwasher, base cabinets and the pantry out so we can remove the underlayment completely. Our initial plan was to try (Daniel more than me) to save the base cabinets and refinish them. They were a...
Renovation Date: October 18, 2019 So, Daniel works crazy days/hours and we actually had an evening off together, which is rare. This whole project began on a random day off together, our days off together usually mean either: we sit lazily all day or we get a wild hair and tackle some home project. There is really no in-between. All or nothing. I...
Renovation date October 17, 2019 I decided to continue working on the floors while Daniel was at work. The water line to our fridge will NOT STOP RUNNING. Guess how many times I have knocked over the red bowl with water in it? Too many. The answer is too many. Trying to keep a nice and tidy while I work. Not working so...
Renovation date October 16 , 2019 Daniel decided to keep going while I was working and was not pleased with his discovery. The last layer of underlayment was particle board and had turned to dust in the area he could see below the dishwasher. This was the picture I received at work- the diagonal boards are the subflooring. Daniel made the decision at...
Once Daniel and I got the top few layers of the floor up, we realized we were in for a much bigger job than we originally thought. Here is our lovely pile of laminate floors. They were not terrible, just not staying together and had several gaps that we were tired of tripping over. This was actually the third layer down- so cute. ...
SO I figured before we got too far with the kitchen posts that I should mention that we have "accidentally" gotten ourselves into another major home renovation before. We have this cute tendency apparently. When we bought our 1952 ranch home it had carpeting. We knew there were hard flooring beneath and that refinishing them would be our first priority before moving in....
