Before I get too far into the kitchen update, I wanted to circle back to a follow up to a picture I said I’d post. This is the final version of the outside of the kitchen wall, the one that we had to fix because of rotten siding and studs. Once again, Paul did a fantastic job. You can see what the house will be. (don’t look at the window, I haven’t done my part yet. 🙂 With the sewer…
Hi everyone! We are continuing to work away on the kitchen and making solid progress but completely unrelated to its work, we ran into another problem which called our attention away. Like I had said earlier, we show up for work and the house tells us what our duties are for the day. This particular day, it got our attention in a most insisting and fragrant way. LOL. As you recall, we now had two bathrooms functioning…well sort of. It…
Well here we are. As you recall this began simply enough to fix a broken pipe one cold winter morning. Alas, that was not the house’s plan. As many of you I’m sure know, once you peel back, open up, expose, etc…one thing leads to another and now we found ourselves in the middle of a full on kitchen remodel, months ahead of schedule. The broken pipe lead to exposing molded cabinets, which led to molded drywall, which led to…
Hi everyone. It’s been a little while since I last posted. We’ve been out of town visiting family in two different states and so things have been coming along, but a bit slowly. Now we’re back on track and I do have a few interesting things to show! And oh yes, I’ll update the front profile pic to show spring time for the house very soon. 😉 As you might remember, the entry way was being stripped of all of…
Hi everyone. These past couple of weeks with the heavy snows and cold temperatures worked well with our schedules as we would have been inside anyway, working on our kitchen remodel and I was still in the entry way doing updates. We don’t have a lot of new things to post but we’ve definitely been busy. Paul has had the brunt of the hard work; demolishing the kitchen walls and their four layers on each one (plaster, lathe, wire mesh,…
Remember when I said that we basically show up for “work” at the house and it “tells” us where we’re working today? With all the beautiful snow came very cold temperatures in this area. A couple of nights down to 5 or 6 degrees. We weren’t worried because we have two main water lines coming into the house. One, the most massive and being fed by the new hot water heater in the cellar, had all of its piping replaced…
We LOVE wood and all its beautiful grains. Anytime we go somewhere that has beautiful exposed wood, we both stop in awe and can’t help but admire it. Therefore our initial thought on the house inside was take it back down to the bare wood and stain it, at least in the entry way, parlor and ballroom. But did the wood under all those years of paint have a grain and quality to stain? And before you say it, yes,…
Do you remember the entry way wallpaper removing project I started? Well I think I am making some good progress on it. With the years of not only what appear to be 3 layers of wallpaper but also at least 1 paint job over it all, it’s been a very slow moving process. The typical wallpaper remover products aren’t won’t go through it all, so it’s simply the warm water and then scraping. Unfortunately most of the wallpaper is coming…
These past couple of weeks here have brought quite a bit of rain. Not all day rain but every other day rain, for an hour or so, or three, etc… As such, yes we have the contractor contacted who will come out and work to repair the leak but in the meantime, the rains keep coming and now with the snow sitting and melting, the leak continues…drip, drip, drip…can be heard from that room. Therefore we keep looking at the…
I am sure for all of the local West Virginians, this is old hat and a real inconvenience, but for these recent CA transplants, we truly enjoyed waking up to the beautiful view outside of our windows yesterday! Wow, what a winter wonderland! Because it was snow, not ice, it was so nice. We spent the day working on tearing out a bathroom downstairs. That is, when Paul could keep me from being distracted by the beautiful views outside of…