The Big Move - August Update

Wow, it has been almost two months since my last blog post! We have been working on renovating our new home for over THREE MONTHS while living with my husband's parents and finally yesterday, we moved in! As per requested by many friends and family, I've finally put together an update along with some pictures to show you the progress!

Here's a little refresher of what the house/kitchen used to look like.

 

Here's a list of the things we have accomplished since we bought our home:

1. Removed wall between living room and kitchen
2. Kitchen tear down
3. Carpet removal from living room and 3 bedrooms
4. Base boards removed from entire upper level
5. Wood floors laid in kitchen (wood floors were already everywhere else, underneath the carpet that we tore out)
6.  Lights wired to each bedroom
7. Canned lighting installed in kitchen
8. Smoke detectors and CO2 detectors installed
9. Trim primed twice, then painted twice on every window and door frame (white)
10. All ceilings on upper level scraped and changed to knock down
11. All bedrooms, living room, kichen and "sitting room" painted
12. All doors removed, painted white, then re-installed with new hardware/handles
13. New white base boards added thoughout
14. Backyard rock removed and transferred to crawl space in basement (AKA: our radon infested death trap)
15. Bush/shrub removal, general clean up in backyard

Here's a list of what we plan to continue to do within the coming months

1. Kitchen cabinets installed (in 1-3 weeks...hopefully!)
2. Replace linoleum entry ways (2) with tile 
3. Possibly add carpet to "sitting room/fireplace room"
4. Paint Dining room table and chairs
5. Tree branch removal (2 huge branches are looming over our house waiting for the perfect moment to crash down and kill us!)
6. "Master" bathroom reno
7. "Guest/Main" bathroom reno

And here are some pictures of the progress we've made!

 

Tearing the wall down (May 7, 2016)

Kitchen's coming out! (May 14, 2016)

Wall and kitchen completely out, wood floor is now exposed.

 

Removing base boards...

 

Wood floor laid in kitchen and first coat of paint on the walls (July 13, 2016)

 
And the painting commences! Andrew working on the guest room

 

 Our room

 

First coat of stain down on the floors (July 22, 2016)

 

Second coat of stain immediately after it was applied. (July 23, 2016)

 

All moved in, this is our gourmet kitchen! (August 13, 2016)

 Someone is feeling very comfy in our new home!

And that's where we're at! All moved in and continuing the projects. More to come soon :)