Thursday, November 6, 2008

2 Months after closing & We live in our new house!

So most of the major projects are done now and we are living in the house. We closed on the house on September 5th and I took pictures on November 5th to compare with the first day we looked at the house. I'll do before and after pictures soon.
Downstairs bedroom: Painted, new molding, floors refinished and repaired.
Downstairs bedroom floor and new molding

Kitchen: New cabinets, new tile floor, painted, walls fixed, half of the wall removed between the dining room.
Coming soon: New plumbing and countertops
Living Room: Painted, floors refinished, New molding
Dining room: Painted, new half wall, floors refinished, new molding
Coming soon: New chandelier!
Hallway: New tile floor, painted
Living room with our furniture moved in.
Matt worked on this while I was away. Still need to do alot of unpacking!

Had to take down 2 of the kitchen cabinets to work on some plumbing to make the plumbing drain faster in the upstairs bathroom :( But we also got an early Christmas present: A new shop vac! Thanks Dad!
The bathroom ceiling after Matt cut open the ceiling and started putting it back up.

Downstairs bathroom: Painted (once, needs to be done over), New tile floor, new light fixture.
Coming soon: Toilet, vanity, new coat of paint and trim.
Kitchen ceiling where it was cut open and the cabinets were taken down. Still wet.
Scott wrote this, when he was helping install the cabinets. Thanks Scott.
Self-explanatory I think
Tile in the kitchen
Unpacking and our makeshift kitchen until we get real appliances.
More kitchen pictures.
Living room: TV is hooked up, but we can't find the remote control or the screws for the stand.
The spare bedroom upstairs, still not unpacked
Our bedroom finally has a bed in it!
Upstairs bathroom: Complete remodel, new walls, ceiling, paint, light fixture, vanity, bathtub, bath fixtures, and floor.

We still have a bunch of stuff to work on, but we can do it little by little as we are living at the house. Maybe we will have a functional kitchen by Thanksgiving :) The countertops in the kitchen are scheduled to be installed November the 13th. We are taking the weekend off, Matt is going to Chicago for Rugby playoffs and I am going to New York City with Lauren for Kim's birthday! Back to working on the house next week.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good work!

Jeanetta said...

The house looks so great! Congratulations on finally moving in, you now have a gorgeous house of your very own.

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh Kristin! I forgot about your email for the pics of your house and jsut saw them. That's amazing how much work you guys have done! You're all grown up now and I still live at home! ahhh!

Anyways, good job, and I cant wait to come visit for a house warming party whenever you guys have it fixed up enough. See you both for Alumni weekend soon!

ps - I don't get why you want to get a new chandelier in the dining... what's wrong with the one with pretty colors? :o)