Living Room

This is what we started with...


Looking up the stairs & as seen from the rest of the house.

This is the "final" product...


Nearly the same views...


In this room we:

• 
  Took down existing ceiling (and accompaning hideous styrofoam beams) reframed roof to raise collar ties up two feet. (Dead of Winter 04-05)
• 
  Removed a coat closet to create more useable wall space. (Spring 2005)
• Added more insulation to exposed wall cavities. (Spring 2005)
• 
  Installed new blueboard and hired contractor to plaster. (Nov. 05 - Jan. 06)
• 
  Installed track lighting and ceiling fan. (I know, I know...track lighting...ewwww! Well take a look...I think it is perfect!) (Summer 2005)
• Added trim above windows, stripped paint, and made window sill deeper. (Spring 2006)
• Took up chopped up flooring, put down new underlayment, installed new prefinished oak. (Fall 2004 & Summer 2006)
• Removed "stub" wall above stairs to enable furniture movement, the plan is to reinstall a removable banister. (Summer 2005)
• Painted. (Spring 2006)

Guess What!!

The remodel is (pretty much) done.



Stay tuned for the before and afters.



Lets finally end this!

Disapperance

So...Its been quite some time since I last posted. Man, I've just been SLAMMED at work and, you know, getting the house done and the holidays and all. Well - not that I've GOTTEN the house done...not that I've even really worked on the house...um...um...LISTEN - I've got a life outside of remodeling okay...so get off my back!! And YES we ARE getting so close to finishing...well like I said, I'm not. But the sweet Hubbie is really making progress. In fact he is at good ol (i.e. the home of the devil) Home Depot stocking up on stuff so he can get a early start in the morning. We are SOOOO close!

We have a two year old!

This week was a big week for us. Quincy was born August 24, 2004 and we closed on our condo August 25, 2004. We got Quincy six weeks later when my boss brought him in "just for me to look at" and of course he came home with me.

We quickly because "those people" who treat their cat like it is their child (except we do leave him alone for a week when we travel places...but we worry about him the whole time). Quincy makes us feel like we are a family instead of simply a couple.

Happy

Birthday

Quincy!!

...oh he's gotten so big!

Homewrecker

Lets Start in the Bedroom

Thats always a good place to start something *wink

Going....









Going....









Gone!

Just a note that cleaning up this crud was a nightmare!!...

And this is after the roof rafters had been reframed. Which, at the request of our fellow condo owners, we hired a liscensed and insured contractor to do...much to the chagrin of our budget and Hubby's pride.

And down comes the ceiling!!

So here we are December 2005. Sweet Hubs and I are not good kids cause we choose to stay at (our) home for Christmas and demolish our house instead of going to our (parents) homes for Christmas. It should be known that we ARE relatively self-centered.

We had to wait a few days to get our building permit...which is a really cool badge of courage that 50% of the people in our town have posted in there windows. While waiting we started another project...repainting the common stairway that we share with the second floor neighbor...and which we still haven't actually 100% finished. But that is pretty boring and pathetic and I know that you've been waiting patiently for ACTUAL information and pictures of the much (way to much) talked about demolition.

Grr.... the pictures won't post...