What just happened?

Well, we're in!

Since the last post (less than a month ago), we closed the deal, packed up our apartment which was stuffed with ten years worth of storage plus a bursting art studio, had the floors refinished at the new house, met with numerous contractors to get bids on the porch project, started refinishing the cabinets in the kitchen, demolished walls in the basement where the studio will be and MOVED IN.

Its been over a month of living with box towers, either at the old apartment or here at the new house. The cats seem to think that they have a permanent jungle to play in. Actually, it feels like a permanent state to us as well. "Slowly but surely" is the new mantra. Since the moving date deadline has been met the pressure is off a little bit, now its only a matter of getting it done before we lose all sanity. Each room needs a fresh coat of paint, better lighting and probably new windows. And every room is part of the larger domino effect (i.e. this has to be completed to have this completed to have this completed, ad infinitum.) At least the floors are done.

Here are some photos of the "before"...

what will be the dining room- first floor. the first room you would enter from the front door.

first floor- the library and guest room

first floor bath. not exactly our style but the lesser of the two evils for the moment

the teenage boy's room will become our office/clean studio room.
p.s. didn't keep the chair they left us, but we're debating the disco ball...

the kitchen. its on the first floor. it looks like its being torn out but we're refinishing the cabinets, replacing the backsplash tiles, getting a new countertop and hopefully a new floor...as opposed to the one really being torn out on the second floor.

the first floor room of the soon-to-be-no-more enclosed porch.

stairs to second floor. found perfect oak treads under the linoleum!

living room, second floor. the stairs are behind that door all the way to the left. then just to the right of that is the little bedroom.
little bedroom.


master bedroom.

former kitchen, second floor. the reason we couldn't close on 09/04.


second floor bathroom


i know- yikes. second floor of the enclosed porch science experiment.


half of the basement space that's had the drywall removed. eventually it will be a huge studio workshop area.

looking through a former wall and into the other half of the studio.
bags of moldy drywall and insulation.

Next time: pictures of the floors and progress on the kitchen and basement! Maybe even some arranged furniture...