There hasn't been much to update anyone about with the house. There are a couple of guys who seem to be there most days, just chipping away at everything. In a weird way, it makes me feel a little better about all of the work we did there before the fire. Like, if it takes a pair of professionals a month and a half to do everything, and they're working all day every day--then we really did an amazing amount of work for a few non-professionals, just working nights and weekends! (That turned into a really long confusing sentence...please just imagine me reading it out loud to you, and hopefully, it makes sense :P )
The good news is, we're getting down to the last few big ticket jobs at the house. The roof has been done (twice), they've put up ceilings, mudded, taped, insulated, and painted. They hung up new lights throughout the upstairs, and replaced all the upstairs windows. Woo! The only things left to do are for them to put the bathroom back together (new vanity, medicine cabinet, flooring, lights, tub surround, and sub-floor), refinish the hardwood floors, and clean everything! I've begun to doubt whether or not they'll actually clean anything....but I'm trying to stay positive.
Since they've been getting pretty close to completing the rest of the house, Kurt and I have been knocking out some work in the kitchen. Since there was no damage to the kitchen, the contractors wouldn't do any work in there. And, since we don't have to live there right now, we decided that this was the right time to tear the kitchen apart!
Getting the kitchen painted was a huge relief in and of its self. This was the last of the previous owner's paint. Man were we glad to see it go! Here's one last look at what it used to be...
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| This redish brownish was just not for us... |
The paint was such an improvement, that it really made us want to do something about the cabinets. They were in good shape, but they looked pretty dated. Again, the existing look just wasn't for us. We went back and forth about whether we should paint the cabinets, or stain them, or start another fire in the kitchen (just kidding--are you still reading? :) In the end we decided to stain them!
I had hoped we wouldn't have to strip them, but as always, Kurt was right, and they had to be stripped. Luckily that only took a few days!
Once all the doors were stripped, we tested stains...we set up each door in the long room, and used Solo cups so that they wouldn't be flat on the ground. Three coats of stain, and two coats of poly took over a week! But, in the end, they look soooo much better! I spent so much time staring at the doors once we got them back up, that I never even took a picture of the finished products! I'll try to do that tonight! Plus, I want to check the mailbox to see if the new door pulls arrived!
So, it's not a ton of updates, but it's something! Hopefully the guys wrap up at the house soon, and we can get moved back in. Kurt has already started a honey-do list for himself, and I think he's as excited as I am to move back in. Now we just have to hope that we can move before a bunch of snow flies!
I'm trying to get back into the swing of blogging, and regular updates--but I hope that the updates become less and less exciting with time! Sorry for the radio silence, but it's better than Christmas music, right? :)
K
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