(side note: i know i don't get to ever complain or mention the "b" word in front of anyone i know because i do get 2 months off in the summer while the rest of the world slaves away and works and i get to relax. and also as a teacher i know all about the importance of capital letters at the beginning of sentences and especially for the word i and about things like periods at the end of sentences and not starting sentences with and, but this is my chance to not follow my own classroom rules and i'm okay with that)
anyways i created this blog because j was teasing me and said "you always read so many other people's blogs why don't you start one of your own?" and so i created the blog and it has sat here for a few months with me pondering what to write about and then it hit me. sharing with the world about our adventures, especially the ones involving the renovations on our house
i promise pictures will come soon showing the progress that has been made so far because we are so proud of all the work that we've done. but first a brief history of about our little house in the city (aka project 109):
1) back in the spring of 2006 we sold our brand new house in our brand new neighbourhood just because i think we wanted to get close to a more natural habitat
you know one with huge towering trees with branches that almost touch each other from across the street, where wildlife inhabitants like squirrels, rabbits and birds actually live in your front yard and there are walking trails through a wooded area not some path in a wide open farmer's field
and that naturally led us to point number 2 on our house history list
2) we then drove madly around the city in the summer of 2006 looking for a neighbourhood that would fulfill this criteria (and also because we now had no home) and looking back we foolishly bought a 60 year old house in the city
if you ask j or n why we did this - we will dreamily reply that its because of the trees that almost touch and the loft upstairs that tricked us into purchasing this house and then we'll snap out of our dreamy trance and remember that we're still living with our foolish decision ... three years later and still hoping that one day soon it will be finished
and you might ask why was it a foolish decision? well because we had very little money to renovate and the entire house needed to be fixed and the little money we had we didn't know what to use it for because neither of us have ever done anything remotely close to renovating
3) enter the trusty dads who are the renovating kings (and our personal heroes)
with their help we are well on our way to finishing the main floor this summer woo-hoo!!
- when we first moved in we tore the upstairs loft apart and sadly we haven't even touched it since but we're hoping this fall we can put the dormers in and the bathroom upstairs and actually live in and enjoy our master floor loft (one of the dreamy reasons why we bought this place)
- over 2006 j, n and all their fabulous helpers (aka family members we can bribe with food and beverage) have taken out several walls, doorways and entrances throughout the house and opened it up to create a beautiful open main floor
- in the summer 2007 we completely gutted the ugly old kitchen and put in a beautiful maple kitchen decked out with fancy slick stainless steel appliances, re-did the ugly old floors with a dark laminate and updated the small main floor bathroom with new fixtures, toilet and found an awesome custom sink that had to be under 16 inches (good luck trying to find that at a regular hardware store) and not to mention the sweetest custom made doors n has ever seen!
- over 2008 and 2009 (usually in extremely cold or unusually hot weather) j, his dad and our trusty helpers have replaced all the windows in the house by having to cut stucco off the house and create custom sized holes to fit these magnificent windows, they have also moved the front door from one side of the living room to the middle, removed the side door entrance and recently put in a beautiful set of french doors leading to our new upper deck which is soon to be covered
well we have much much much more to do until our little house is transformed into a place that reflects us and our dream and vision for this place but with a little bit more hard work, patience and planning we can start to see the end in sight
thanks for stopping by and joining us in our crazy adventure ... please visit again and check back for updates
cheers ~n
p.s. i was worried that i wouldn't have very much to say for my first post and was procrastinating at posting anything but as i re-read my long winded post i see that this won't be such a big problem in the future
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