Week 1 Progress

The first week of our project ended with a lot of visual impact.



That patio used to be where the family room with wall-length fireplace stood.



Since we are adding a crawl space, the entire room needed to be removed before being rebuilt in the exact same spot.

The kitchen demolition started too.



So we started looking at hardwood floors and weighing the pros and cons of kitchen cabinet colors and kitchen layout designs.



We are not the quickest decision makers, and it has felt a little stressful to be on a little bit of a timeline, since we need to order most of our materials within the next few weeks in order to get them shipped on time and not cause delays in the process... because I cannot handle delays very well, having officially been squatting at my in-laws for 7 months come January 1st!

Breaking Ground!

So a quick update from the last post...

Remember when I laid out all those grand plans? Well, then we got the final bids back from contractors. Wow. It is amazing how fast a project adds up. It was a bit of a gut wrenching decision, but we decided to scale back. Just a little bit.

In the end, we decided to go with MOST of the project, however with less wall movement/replumbing of entire house. More of a total facelift, as opposed to deep cosmetic surgery:).

Of course, this meant re-submitting plans to the city for permits, getting new contractor bids, and all of this right as the holiday season was getting under way, so things slowed down again. We finally signed with a contractor on Friday, December 16th. So imagine my surprise on the first morning of Winter Break, the next Monday, when I casually did a drive-by of the house and saw this:


Is that a port-a-potty in my driveway?

Upon closer inspection, I confirmed that Santa Claus had arrived early and brought the best Christmas gift ever: demolition in progress at our 6 months-vacant-house!



And now the decision making for all the finishes begins!