Through this house remodel, Chris and I have had a few things on our “wish list”. We haven’t shared any of them…until now. I’ve got to say, the timing on this particular wish list item could not have been any better. So what is this so-called “wish list” item you ask? An Infrared Sauna! Say What?!? Yes, a Sunlighten Infrared Sauna! An infrared sauna was totally my idea. I deal with an autoimmune thyroid disease and have been reading about…
Pulling. Wire. Pulling. Wire. Next up on the list of oh-so-dreaded tasks was pulling wire. Remember the previous tasks: Cleaning out all the junk on the first floor Vacuuming the first floor Basement clean-up Basement vacuuming As we’ve worked on those 4 projects, we’ve also been trying to tame the machine shed and the mess that is outside. It seems like these tasks take us right up to exhaustion just as we finish the task. But forge ahead we must!…
Here at A Walk in the Weeds, we’ve been in hibernation mode lately. The fall brought great progress on our house remodel, but as the season turned to winter and the holidays arrived, time spent working on the house was nonexistent. I mean, bake cookies in my warm house or pull wire in sub-zero temps. Uumm, the cookies won. Now that a January thaw has brought some life back into us, it’s time to come out of hibernation. Just a…
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…
We’re back at work in the machine shed. We know that this project is not a sprint…it’s more like a marathon. One weekend we work in the machine shed, the next weekend might be inside work or even outside work. It helps to break up the overwhelmingness (I know, that’s not a word!) of working on one section of this project for too long. Coming back to work on the machine shed felt better this time around. We were definitely…
I can walk up to the 2nd floor of the house and see all the raccoon poop that has baked for multiple summers. That is gross! But, of course, we managed to find something that is so much worse. In the quonset sits three chest freezers and an old refrigerator. Like the rest of the house, the previous owners left us the remnants of their future dinner entrees’. Fortunately, two of the freezers were still plugged in. Those two were…
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…