Our Renovation Project Finally Begins

Over many years we have made plans for adding onto and remodeling  our home…

A little here and a little there was all there ever was time for…

with Mike’s job always so far away and taking all his time…

In the last month…

We finally started with some of our long over due plans…

Let’s start with the kitchen…

In the beginning the kitchen was a very small area sharing space with the eating area in one room…

Very few cabinets and NO counter space to speak of…

The outside wall, in the eating area was graced with two long windows…

which while affording you a “larger” look at the yard ate up all that wall space…

So, we tore out those windows and replaced them with a short one to match the new one over the sink… giving us one whole wall for counter and cabinets…

Then we

tore out the old cabinets…

added more electrical outlets…

picked a new paint color for the walls…

Before and after color change

Miss Bo sits atop new cabinets

And

got some help putting down new flooring…

We’ll come back to the kitchen with a sink installation and countertops later…

Mean while let’s look at the old garage room…

some twenty years ago we had it closed in to remodel into a den…

(“Best laid plans of mice and men”)

Instead over the years it became first the storage room then the JUNK room…

That thing was half full…

No, not from end to end…

that way it was full..

I mean from bottom to top!

Now, here is a true confession…

I have never, ever coveted anything of my neighbors…

oh, maybe a flower bush here and there …

But, there was a time when my in~law’s had a big blue dumpster brought out to their house and began throwing things out!!!

OH… How I wanted a

big blue bucket

of my own!!!

Guess what !!!

We got one!

Me and Big Blue!

Over many days that garage room was emptied…

Yes, we found things we thought were long gone…

including someone’s

Uncle Albert…

(No, not really!)

(Sure, we even had an

old phone booth…)

Then Mike tore out the ceiling and all that old insulation

(Note face mask pulled up on forehead)

the room had been totally gutted, cleaned out and swept…

So, what did we do next?

 

I’ll tell you this,

while every muscle in my body has been tired and aching I have been having the time of my life!

Nothing is more fun that to set some goals,

and work side by side with your best friend to reach them !!!

 

Join me next time and we will continue this old house renovation!

See ya soon!