Kitchen & Dining Room

Well as most of you know Shane and I bought an old foreclosed home 2.5 years ago and have been slowly working on it. After an expensive and deepest well in the county, new drain field and roof things have been slow moving on the inside. Less than one week after Christmas we began.

My job was to remove the wall paper and Shane to remove the floor. I NEVER thought I would get through it. It took weeks (now mind you we both work)the person who put this stuff on had it precise and it was a shame but man it had to go. The floor, well Shane pulled it up (vinyl brick design) and there were the original HW. Wow would of love to have kept those but there were so many issues w/ them. Shane put down new sheathing and put over 1,000 screws in them, I hope we never have to repair anything there. I finished the walls and we were ready to paint. The Yellow was WAY to yellow so we added 1.5 gallons of ant. white that we had but it was flat :( but softened the color. Days later the walls are done, Shane now started the floor. (2 weeks in now - all the items in kit/din are in my den)


Shane had to redo the last section because they didn't stick (not a happy man - another late night) 2 weeks later the floor is done AAAAHHHH, now the trim... 1 month I get my appliances back in (dishwasher still not hooked up). A month and half and I can't take it any longer. Shane takes Willow to Nans (this weekend) and I finished painting the trim and lugged everything back in, cleaned out all cabinets and reorganized. I got ride of 2 boxes and one large trash bag full of stuff that needed to go. I want less clutter on my counters. Now we still need to put the curtains up and pictures, change outlets and do something to finish up the windows but my house is in order now. Surprisingly Shane and I didn't get into big arguments and we survived. I LOVE IT. Seems like it was forever but it was well worth the hard work and wait.