Last weekend was Thanksgiving and we have a lot to be thankful for. I wanted to take time to remind myself that there are things about this project to be thankful for: the raccoon poop did not harbor a life-threatening parasite no one has been injured during this remodel (let’s just say that our last remodel project involved my father-in-law, a hole in the floor, and a week in a hospital bed) we got the first floor cleaned up much…
The weather has started to cool down and the days are getting shorter. I thought it would be a good time to talk a little about the basement and the grossness that awaits us down there. First off, the basement has zero windows. Yes, you read that right, ZERO. No egress windows, no small windows…3,000 square feet in the basement and no windows! It’s pretty creepy when you look down the steps and there is no light AT ALL. Luckily,…
Today we moved our efforts back inside to the first floor. Now that we’ve gotten most of the first floor cleared, it was time to make it look good. It was time to vacuum! There are so many little crevices. Every tiny nook and cranny has dust in it! But unlike when I clean at home, this will stay clean for longer than 10 minutes! (at least until we start the remodel process) Let the vacuuming begin! I started on…
After such a stressful time with the raccoon poop and all, we took some time away from the project. It had consumed so much of our spare time. We went on our summer vacation to Table Rock Lake on a houseboat. When we returned, we were refreshed and enough time had passed that we were ready to get back to work. We did choose to ease our way back in. Instead of tackling a project inside the house, we…
It’s this particular incident that made people say “Hey Liz, you’ve got to be telling everyone about this – or at least start a blog so others will know!” 🙂 It’s only after some time has passed that I can look back and joke about it. The work we’ve been doing in my previous posts took place this summer. Although we are a bit farther in the clean-up process than what I’m posting about, I wanted to start from the…
Today we tackled some of the grossest, most cluttered rooms in the house. The junk wasn’t in a huge room, where it could be spread out. It was all packed in three smaller rooms. The room pictured below had a lot of clothes and books, an odd chair, and a box of motor oil, just to name a few things. The area in the picture below is a hallway that comes from the kitchen. It gives access to the rooms…
Although we are weary and tired of taking load after load of stuff to the dump, we’ve got to get back in there to get the job done. Today’s task was to clean out the rest of the main room. Is there a main room in a house this big? Ok, well, the left half of the house. 🙂 It’s fun to be making our way into the house. Before, we’d walk in and be hit right there with junk….