weekend round-up

joe was awesome and focused on the first floor this weekend. almost finished painting the misc. doors and worked on the coat closet!

a shot of an upstairs window...

the future master

now that we've secured our loan and made the first payment we decided to start our master bedroom/ bathroom renovation. this will include ripping out the lathe and plaster on all the walls, a new window to replace the aluminum slider, reconfiguring an existing bath to include it with the bedroom as well as insulation and new wiring. this bedroom currently has no electrical (lights or plugs).

first step - remove trim and salvage for other projects.


second step - find a place to put the original window seat
(notice it missing from the above photo)
it couldn't have fit better on the porch between the column and wall. the porch actually used to have two beautiful built-in's but they were removed before we got the house when they were redoing the foundation and brickwork

garden

the front yard looks good when you look at individual plants... we still have the issue with too many plants and they're fighting for space, then adjacent we have bare soil. the neighbor (former homeowner) was nice and told me not to wait for anything to grow in the bare spots because she hadn't planted anything there. good thing, we need it to move around everything else!

artifacts

i think i like treasure hunting the most in our house... the unknowns of what is left and built into the house - joe found this in the attic under some floor boards.

a really old stick figure on construction paper by someone +/- 3 years old.

Update

We've been busy enjoying life and paying not much attention to the house - much needed! Between the recent downpours we've spent some time reorganizing the plants outside and joe has a few things started in the garden in the back.

this afternoon we went wild on an existing "desk" that took up half the room in the attic. after about 1000 screws (varying in length from 1/2" to 8"!!, buried under glue, nails, newspaper for caulk and paint we got it destructed, down the stairs (3 stories down) and in pieces in the garage... i would love to show the previous homeowners how to build things simply, more efficietly and much CHEAPER! oh yes, and there was electrical wiring tucked throughout this bad boy - so you could plug things in every you might think of! - did we mention it was built on top of the old carpet?

before photo

with the doors and drawers missing
(you could hide a twin size bed under there, and then some!)

opposite side

gone!
(need to patch the holes from the lag bolts)

apart in the hallway