two months worth of stuff

Well here we are May 9th and after a few emotional battles the house is shaping up.

See for yourself.

Home, for my Two Month old, waiting to be plugged in 50" Plasma TV.

Master Bath Vanity with Granite Counters

New Sliding Glass Door @ Master Bedroom

Backyard freshly mowed(thanks mom)

Finished home for the TV, just waiting on TILE..

Garbage pit

Cabinets awaiting to be installed.

20" Kitchen floor Tiles

Base Cabinets Installed.

Future Fridgetator home

3/12 update

Some updates for now:

Masterbathroom has new two sink vanity in, the shower is tiled, the granite tile will be done this weekend, then we have to replace the back door (it leaks big time) then the room can get carpeted. Then I can actually have a bedroom.

The family room still needs texturing and paint. The kitchen still needs floor tile, cabinets, appliances, marble tile counters, pretty much everything.

its been 3 months without a kitchen and bedroom, and nowhere to put any of my stuff. This has been tougher than I thought.

Pictures are coming.

1/31 Update

Ok, we are still texturing some parts of the house, but mostly done. Today we were electricians installing recessed lighting. Tomorrow we go back to sheetrock and mud. Plumbing work is now 90% done. All we have to do is put in the P-Traps, and cover plates once the cabinets are in. Tile is now being decided on. Im down to 3 choices, from a lot. We have to run new joists between the green metal joists under the floor to prevent any bouncing. This would cause grout cracks after just a few months. We dont want that to happen....

Heres some pics.

Bare Kitchen

Time Lapse in Bedroom Fixing the back door.

Still Going

Ok we are still in drywall phasing. Today I dropped $9,000 on cabinets and vanity stuff. I am broke as a joke. We decided not to build the cabinets due to my scheduling conflict. I am taking a major exam on April 4th, and will need time to study, so I had to outsource the cabinets, so that we can do the work that was originally scheduled for March, in February, while the cabinets are being built simultaneously up safely in Oregon.

I have picked out about 50 colors of paint to choose from. (thanks tris) Now I have to shortlist them to about 10. Which will give me a couple of colors per room.

Here are some pictures that will get us up to date. 

 Good Girl Millie.

Removing the 15" tile box around the fire place.

Replacing framing, subfloor, siding.

eek

Ok, I cant keep up with the day by day breakdown, there is too much going on in my life.

Since the last blog, we have finished up underneath the house, sealed up the subfloor, started putting up gypsum board (sheetrock) taped and mudded the master bedroom, installed new plumbing for the kitchen and master bathroom, framed in my new closet, replaced some siding, and primed the siding before it rained. I have drawn up the design of the new kitchen and bathroom vanity, and we can now start thinking about building the cabinets.

ONWARD!

Day 8,9,10

The last few days have been spent jacking up the back bedroom, and replacing termite infested studs, joists, and subfloor. Its been a long consecutive work week. (one day off for christmas) and I am very happy with what we have accomplished. As early as next weekend, we can start putting up gypsum, and texturing the walls. Next saturday I am having the shower heads raised for a 6' 4incher, so I dont have to bend over to get my hair wet. Then we can start rebuilding my cabinets and counters. More pictures later.

My new favorite toy!

Day 5,6,7

The last three days have been spent underneath the house. My body aches the good ache from army crawling around on my stomach and back. We have successfully jacked the kitchen up and placed the new mudsill spacers, furred up the joists, drilled and set new foundation bolts through the new and existing mudsills, and have now moved to the master bedroom. We have cut a hole in that floor now, and have removed all the dry rotted / termite infested wood from the back corner. We should be done with jacking up the house by tomorrow morning, maybe even this afternoon! Then we move onto Trims and Interiors (TI) Whoo Hoo. Millie got to lay outside today cause it was beautiful out there. The sun was a pleasant change in weather.

More Jacking Pictures (this is what we look at all day)

Shim under the Joist

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New Mudsill Under Old Mudsill (Thats how much we lifted the house in this location)

Termite GUNK!