New chairs!

This isn't really a remodel project. What do you think of our new chairs! Even little Juanita likes the chair!

Fireplace

The fireplace brick work is done! Now all we need to do is have a wood mantel put on. I'm thinking probably something like an old, dark chunk of raw type wood. Nothing "finished". I'll know the right mantel when I see or when we see the right hunk of wood! I love the way this is starting to look already. I can't wait till it is dry and we can start using it. Notice how much bigger the opening is on it now.

Wallpaper

The wallpaper in the room that eventually will be the baby's room was pretty bad. As of yesterday... it is off the walls! Stripping wallpaper is a lot of work and it is time consuming and boring! Thank goodness for my little steamer (the thing pictured near the window). Steaming the paper is a lot less messy than using the Dif wallpaper spray. I only used that for tough spots.

The Beam!

The beam that is supporting our ceiling is over 800 pounds, 24 feet long, 16 inches deep and 8 inches wide. When it was sitting out on the back lawn I took Grace's photo as she jumped it, I thought that might give a size perspective. We still have a lot more work to do on it, like another coat of stain and a non-gloss sealer, but it's coming along pretty well.

The Wall, during contstruction

Here is the wall, during the constuction phase. It hasn't been textured yet but you can see how much more open the space is.

The Wall, before.

So we have a wall between the kitchen and the family room that has a pass through window. This wall is a load bearing wall. To knock it down requires us to create some other form of structure to hold up the ceiling. These are the before pictures. Click on the photo to enlarge the image.

Rock

So we hated the rock on the fireplace. We also hated the rock on the front of the house. So we removed it!

My brother Greg and Alex did the demolition! Greg did all the demo on the fireplace.

Welcome ... to our house!

In an effort to keep people up to date on our remodeling projects I've created this blog.

I'll try to keep the photos in order but since I'm starting this blog two months into the project things might get jumbled!

These photos were the first photos we viewed of the house. These were taken by the real estate agent who sold the house. I take no responsibility for the decoration or the quality of images!