update...

Well, its been a week since the last post. The drywall finishing should be complete by this friday. We've picked out which walls to paint and have a good idea of the colors. Going this evening to pick final colors and probably buy all the primer and paint. Borrowed a nice sprayer from a co-worker, which should speed up the painting process.

We cleaned every single exposed by hand... uh, except the 1/2 bath exposed brick which slipped through the cracks... But anyway, the main wall is ready to be sprayed with the sealer we got from a couple that's on our Kickball Team !! yes that's right, me and beth are in a kickball league.. its a fun social event for younger city residents...

Repair of the floors will be complete by tomorrow evening. so our plan is to paint the entire house, seal the exposed brick, over friday evening, sat all day, and sun all day... we'll see how it goes... then we are taking off on monday and tues, to sand floors and refinish... basically we'll get done what we can in four days of hard work...

Cabinets are scheduled to arrive April 6th.. hopefully no delays...

We should really trim out the bedroom before moving back in, but we'll see how it goes...

Got an estimate for putting siding on the back cantilever.. 850$, not too bad I guess.. its from the person we plan to use as our GC for Linden Ave. That will be done as soon as we have all the outlets and swithes in, and plates on, because we have to call BGE to come out and drop our main line in, for the siding workers to do their job.. hopefully they'll be replacing our electrial main into the house as well..

here they are!!

well its been a while... but now the website is completely updated :) im sorry if its a little overwhelming... so many photos at one time... i didnt get a chance to take a photo of our storage space but its hillarious! we couldnt squeeze another possible thing in!!

everything is going great at staceys and the dogs are getting along great! what a relief... stacey and jeff have even offered to take momiji while we are in SD and san fransisco!! you guys are life savers!!

until next time :)

a photo from brians appreciation dinner... it was so dark in there i couldnt get any good photos... but here is my attempt. He's in the green shirt.. always trying to be different =)

we had to move the electrical outlet up higher for teh microwave... not something brian was especially happy doing but its done and now we can plug in our microwave :) that was a task i was looking forward to going to work!

the pantry and 1/2 bath...

the back wall with drywall, taped and mudded :) the entire kitchen except the ceiling is hung!!

the stairs :) tonight well be working on touching up the brick wall :)

the bedroom wall...

anthony hard at work tape-ing and mud-ing :) every penny well worth it!

looking into the kitchen... the outside wall to the 1/2 bath...

looking from the kitchen into the livingroom... i have to say it feels so weird having walls in our house... i never thought id say that!!

a fuzzy view of the pantry and the 1/2 bath...

the kitchen all insulated... just in time for teh big BGE price hike!

the view into the kitchen... all clean :)

the after shot.... everything moved into a storage space and us and the morrison family moved in with stacey and jeff... THANK YOU STACEY AND JEFF!!!

brian had at work... no more kitchen sink :)

to the left is the stack of drywall that knocked me on my a** thank god we had the 1/2 bath framed out to stop me or i dont know what i would have flown into!!

brian wanted to make sure everyone knew this was my wiring and not his... something about it being very creative... i like the waving motion... its kinda soothing :)

what does the underneath of your stove look like?? here is ours!!

looking from the kitchen to the front of the house...

our previous kitchen set-up... minus the stove.... weve been without a stove for about 3 weeks now and we are missing home cooked meals... im going to have to be at the gym 7 days a week to lose those eating out lbs...

next 5 weeks...

.. so we haven't posted in awhile... Entire house is now completely roughed in for electrical, second floor drywall is hung, all framing is complete...

Here's the plan for the next 4 or 5 weeks. Drywall crew starts on march 13th, for $1670 they will hang all the drywall on the first floor, and block, skim, sand, etc the whole house... Good deal i think.. We will be picking up, paying for, and getthing the remaining sheetrock to the house, but not bad...

We have rented a 10x10 space at EZstorage.. got lucky with timing.. they were running a deal for 1$ for first full month... singed up february 28th, so we paid for one day in Feb, and march was 1$ !!!!

We'll be moving most of your stuff into storage, plants are going to Wendy's, and We three are staying at Stacey and Jeff's place in Hampden on a single bed with no closet !! We REALLY appreciate there hospitality!!!

The plan is to have the exposed brick wall cleaned and coated, all the drywall finished and painted (sprayed), all the wood floors sanded and coated, or shaclacked as Beth likes to say =), and have the stairs and railing sanded and painted...

We ordered our kitchen cabinets yesterday !!! a moss glaze (green color)... after whilttled down some extras and trying to be frugle, we have about 16 kraftmaid cabinets from lowes delivered to our door for 4K.. pretty good deal. Counter tops and knobs/hardware will be about 500 more. We will install ourselves...

Looking forward to warm weather... some free time... and Linden getting started !!