The Remodel

It's the moment you've all been waiting for - a post about the remodel! I've put this off for a while because it was too soon. Remodels are terrible, and this was no exception. But we survived, we're still married and Megan will have a brand new house to come home to! We started mid July and were able to move back in on Labor Day. But unfortunately because of random things, didn't get my oven for another month! That was painful. But all is well now. A few things I want to remember (I think): eating outside on the deck, washing dishes in tub, coming home from work to Sam crying cuz he couldn't take the noise anymore, our wood floor guy staying until midnight one night, coming home from church and opening the door to see the dust so thick that I couldn't see through the house, having a giant hole in our wall in the basement with just a tarp to cover. I tried to take before and after pics in the same spot, so here you go!

As you can tell Sam was VERY excited to help with the demo. The workers were nice to let him help.

Everything came to screeching halt when this random half wall was determined to be load bearing even though 3 people had told us otherwise. Luckily it was fixed fairly quickly

Our kitchen and dump all. Yes we're eating next to our toilet!

Cabinet Day!

Paint!

Where we ate dinner and the giant whole in the wall behind us. There used to be a window there but we used it to run our water pipes out to the new mudroom.

We were grateful when we finally got to move upstairs and inside to eat

Countertops! It took 5 guys to carry our 10 ft. slab in.

We never want to do house projects again. My nights have been doing something on the house. Painting the pantry sent my wrist over the edge. It still hurts.

The weekend we finally got to move back in!

Toby's pride and joy. He had to talk me AND my sisters in to putting a TV there, but it's been awesome and every sub that's come in has expressed their approval.

The day the oven finally came Sam used it for smores! Max named the oven Marge and we love her.