Month: April 2009

With the very much appreciated help of my father-in-law, my husband and he finished all the demo of the first three rooms we are tackling. The “Red room” and bathroom are now down to studs. Wednesday they demo’d the “red room”, then thursday we did the bathroom, revealing some pretty bad conditions in the floor and the wall studs. So Friday we put down a new subfloor and started re-framing the bathroom walls. This project is not yet complete but it’s close.

With the weather being just so amazing last week we needed to do a little outdoor work so we started a garden to plant my birthday rose bushes in. I really hope I can keep them alive! This weekend all work was suspended (except for cleaning) due to other plans and with my sister’s wedding fast approaching (this coming weekend) work will probably not resume until next week.

Next on the house to do list is to finish the framing and support beams. Then the electrical. We also have to replace the bathroom window. Then we’ll just get ready for the insulation people to come and do the spray foam. Once that’s complete we get to do the really fun part – drywall???

I’ve added pages in the side bar to show progress on the home renovation projects we are doing. We bought our house in Feb, 2009 and started work almost immediately with lots of help from our families!

The goal is to slowly renovate the whole house, mostly because we need to insulate. We’ll be trying to keep most of the original details (windows and trim) but all the plaster has to come down so we can insulate. No major structural changes in the downstairs although upstairs we plan to add a hallway and a master bathroom someday.

The first project we tackled was what we call the “Blue Room” which will be made into a home gym. It’s a small room in the back of the downstairs. The demo is done, some new supports were added and the wiring. The next project is continuing the demo through to the “red room” which will become our tv room, the bathroom and the front hall. Once these rooms are all demo’d and new wiring put in we’ll insulate and start putting back together.

Our plan is to half of the downstairs, then do the other half of the downstairs, then do the entire upstairs at once? It’s going to be a few years of living in a state of renovation but hopefully it will all be worth it in the end!