Knock, Knock. Who’s There? We told you about our plans to take off the second floor in this post. Today we’d like to share with you more about our plans to change where the front door was originally intended to be. As you look from the road up to the house, you can see that the builder had placed the front door to face the road. There really is no logical way for guests to arrive at the front door…
As the snow piles up in Iowa, the ability to get work done on the house each weekend gets hard. That’s why we thought it would be a great time to talk about what our plans are once we start construction. As you know, we’re dealing with a house that is much bigger than our needs. So our goal is to make this big house…a little less big. We didn’t make this purchase blindly. Thankfully, before any offer was made…
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…
Not only do we have so much clean-up to do on the house, we also have some unusual lawn ornaments that were left on the property. Just before we got possession of the property, rumor has it that the previous owner drove one to two dozen campers off the property. So the resulting leftovers must have been what he was unable to get started. There was one Dodge camper left. This poor camper has definitely seen better days. Not only…
Oh boy! So we weren’t planning on moving. We certainly weren’t looking for another fixer upper. But luck had me browsing the internet one night and…lo and behold…I spotted a house on 10 acres that was owned by a bank. Hmmm, could this be it? An acreage (in the perfect location) was just what we wanted! After a bit of probing by our realtor, the bank finally agreed to show it to us. Uh oh! We were in love. The…