It time to ressurect this thing...
It's been almost a year now since I've posted here. There were just too many stress factors going on in our lives which totally precluded being able to do any work on the house at all. The only things that got done were necessities (like fixing a toilet, replacing lightbulbs, etc.) We've lost an entire year's worth of work at this point, but we're getting ready to dive in headlong. We're going to be getting the house appraised in about 2 months and we need to have it ship shape (or at least looking like it). No, we're not selling the house, just doing a re-fi now that we're in a much better position to get the loan that we wanted from the beginning instead of the last-minute-holy-crap-we-need-a-loan-now-or-we're-homeless-in-Oregon loan.On the hit parade for this summer:
- Massive spring cleaning and reorganizing of all storage.
- Upstairs - level the bathroom floor, remount toilet, fix floor in guest room.
- Livingroom - pull down the rest of the paneling, finish up the stove area, drywall patching, paint.
- Laundry room - pull down shingles on the walls, patch nail holes, paint.
- Bathroom - spruce up with some cabinets/shelves or something, fix toilet better.
- Storage Closet - remove exterior walls, remove floor, remove stone planter from bottom step, voila! backdoor again!
- Kitchen - finish puttying/painting cabinet doors and drawer and rehang, rip up old floor, put down new linoleum, touch up painting, new appliances
Outside (already underway)
- Level the pond area, finishing filling in pond, seed.
- Seed old firepit
- Fill in random yard holes with dirt we have.
- Plant the new maples & clover
- Clean windows on outside
- Fix fence (moving gate possible)
- Fix deck
- Repaint deck
- Spot paint the house
There will be more soon... this time I promise!
posted by Unknown @ Saturday, May 24, 2008
