For more than a year Amy and I were motivated by deadlines dictated by contractors, mother nature, school, vacation time, and the sale of our old house. But once we were able to move into our rehab house the deadlines suddenly disappeared. This is NOT to say that we haven’t been working our butts off…
Category: A little bit of everything
Storage Wars!
We’re back! We never intended for the move-in to be the end of the blog, but I’m sure it must seem like that considering how long it has been since the last post. A year ago our intention was to try to be done with the rehab project during the summer so that we would…
Big Tour after the Big Move
We have had a couple posts about the moving process, but not many pictures of the house. As promised, this blog post will have more pictures of the current state of our house. Be warned: It is not pretty. It is still cluttered with boxes and we still don’t have things like fixtures, trim, paint,…
The Big Move
As you would expect, moving day and the days leading up to it were hectic, long, and stressful, but also full of anticipation and excitement. By the time the day had actually arrived the vast majority of boxes and small items had already been relocated to the rehab house. The movers were going to take…
Sprinting to the finish line
We have finally reached the most important milestone of our rehab project. We have moved into our new home! (pause for long applause) Thank you. This past month has been one of the most brutal of our rehab year. This is evident by the fact that we haven’t even had time to post one…
Plaster repaired, walls primed, floors are prepped… and one more treasure!
We are now at T minus 5 weeks before the big move-in deadline. The 10-12 hour days have continued, although we did sneek in a three-day trip to Michigan with the kiddos this week. I consider that the calm before the storm. Or maybe it would really be considered the eye of the hurricane. Either…
Prepping the floors, priming the walls, and cooling the air.
While Joe has been busy continuing window reglazing, door restoration, and plaster repair, I have been chipping away at the floors….literally. I talked a lot about the mastic tar and horse hoof glue removal process in this blog post when I was about half way through the job. Now that job is officially finished and…
Happy 1-year anniversary!
Week 53!!! (Joe and Amy) One year ago TODAY we took possession of our new house! How fitting that the 1-year anniversary corresponds with one of our biggest milestones – drywall! By coincidence, another small milestone will be passed today – some lucky reader will be the 10,000th view on our blog! We wanted to…
Prepping for drywall
Week 51 (Joe) Once the insulation crew began work we gave our drywall guy a call and scheduled him to start on Tuesday. We knew we had some small jobs to take care of before drywall, but we wanted to get the drywall finished soon so that we would be able to work in the…
Preparing for insulation
Week 51 – (Joe) Last week I met with our insulation guy to walk through the house before they begin work. We decided he could go ahead and start this week on the blow-in insulation for the existing plaster walls while we were waiting for the arrival of our loft window. Then we got the…
Framingpalooza!
Week 38 – Joe We are now in our 2nd week of Christmas vacation and our 3rd week of having our wonderful carpenter at our disposal. This is the last push to get everything wrapped up before we insulate and drywall. That means finishing all the little details of framing and blocking. Besides the loft,…
“I’m yours until you say to stop”
Week 35 – Joe A week ago I got a text from our carpenter. It was a text that rehabbers in need of structural expertise only dream of getting: “I’m starting Monday and cleared out all week or longer if needed. I’m yours until you say to stop.” There was much rejoicing in our house…
6 Hard Questions for the DIY Rehabber
Week 34 – Amy We are about half way through our house project! [Note from Joe: Well… maybe halfway to moving IN. We all know the “house project” will never actually be done] At the beginning of the project we knew enough to know that there was a lot we didn’t know. Along the way…
Under New Management 