Monday, May 23, 2016

If you want something you've never had, then you've got to do something you've never done.

We are finally just about done prepping the floors! We got all the carpet and the other old floors up throughout the house except for the kitchen. Tiles from a long time ago are still there so it's going to take some more effort. Hopefully by the end of this week all the floors will be ready.

All the floors are in decent shape. The only problem is the stairs and the area in the dining room that used to have the grate in for the coal furnace. I'm hoping Pinterest will be able to help me with both of these issues.







We are hoping to move in by mid-summer but it all depends on what other issues may arise between now and then. So far, everything is looking okay and on track. The basement is going to get cleaned out and then my dad is going to fix a whole bunch of broken pipes, which for now is our biggest problem that we know of, other than needing a furnace, but that doesn't need to be done before we move in.  

I am SO excited to have space to spread out again!!



Wednesday, May 11, 2016

All wealth is the product of labor.

We are almost done tearing up the flooring the in bedrooms! Now, the tedious job of pulling up all these weird tack things that were holding down the fake wood floor. I'm still wondering why someone would put fake wood over real wood? 





Next up is sanding them down. I can't wait!!

It's been fun taking up the floors because underneath there is old newspapers. Every time we get a section up it's like unwrapping a Christmas present. There is some cool stuff in those papers. 



The above picture is Caroline Kennedy with her dad, JFK. 

Hopefully the floors will all be done being torn up this weekend and then we will move on to something else. I don't know yet what that something else is, but I have a bad feeling it's going to be cleaning up the basement.  Scary, right? Good news is that we already got out that big mattress in this post. 










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