Remember that front porch project?
umm.. yeah.. that still isn't done..
I never even wrote about the bathroom! Which we have mostly done but the front of the tub is still unfinished.. window needs to be painted, along with the shelving unit and doors. Not to mention we already have repairs that need to be done.. faucet needs replacing already and breaker blew on the light fixtures above the sink.. Oh Joy!
Anyway.. i can spend all day listing all the stuff that we have and have not started yet.. but i'm not going to as that makes my head and my wallet hurt.
What i do want to talk about is the little bedroom off the office. I call it the dressing room.
This room will become a very large closet! I'm super excited about it as we have a 4 bedroom house 1 1/2 bath, eat in kitchen, formal dining room (we use as a library), living room and entry way and 2... wait... lets do that again.. ONE.. TWO.. closets!!
One in the office which is for Erics stuff..
The other in the room we are currently using as our bedroom which we use for our clothes and other storage. I have a rubbermaid tub with my shoes in it.. not fun finding shoes when you are in a hurry which is me 99.999% of the time.
So we are now working on the Spare Oom.. (tell me you got that reference?) (wait.. who am i talking to.. does anyone read this blog?? ..... ..)
Isn't she lovely
a little passive agressive are we?
An old relic from the days when Eric's family lived here. His uncle wrote that on the wall.
Can you see the light? that is the front porch you can see through that hole.
So tonight we began working on it. I took one wall down to the studs and Eric removed the molding around the windows. The wall i worked on tonight was particle board which was easy to remove. The other three walls are lathe and plaster.. it's gonna get messy!
After looking at the windows once the molding was removed I think i'm going to look into vinyl windows. Yeah they won't match the rest of the house.. but i figure one room at a time is better than leaving these since i can't afford to do them all at once!
If you look closely at the window you can see the old pulley mechanism.
Isn't the wallpaper devine! What you probably can't tell by these photos is that the ceiling is papered also. We haven't decided if we are taking the ceiling down yet. only time will tell.
The list for tomorrow is removal of the trash we now have all over the floor.. or i should say.. figuring out how we are going to remove all this down our steep narrow stairs.
Fortunately we rented a dumpster for Erics rental 2 houses down so we have a place to put this trash but getting it there might be an adventure on it's own.
Then we work on the lathe & plaster walls!
I'll try and keep you posted on the progress!
On a side note.. I still need to write a post about T & B's wedding cake that i made! I'm pretty darn proud of myself for that one so i'll try and get something done soon.
Also.. apparently it's time to upgrade my flickr account to pro.. granted it's not really expensive but i was hoping to wait it out a bit longer.. no such luck.
One more pic for the road:
Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl. She turned 12 today!
I think she's not interested...
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