Long time, no see

I bet you can't guess what I'm about to say.

Drum roll, please...

WE ARE STILL NOT FINISHED!

I have so many pictures ready to share, but not ONE room is completely finished. **sigh**

Thankfully, we are meeting with a contractor this weekend. We plan to let him finish the house. I wish we were able to finish the driveway and the exterior of the house, but it's not looking like that's going to happen. Can you say money pit?

At any rate, if we can get the inside finished, I'll be one happy girl. :)

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Three months later...

It's been a month since my last post, and I wish I could say we were finished. ACK! Alas, everything has been moving at a snail's pace. Now that school is back in session, it's moving even slower. It still feels like we are months away from being finished. However, I'm hoping for a couple weeks.

We picked up our hardwood floors on Sunday. LOVE IT! I'll post a picture soon. It's natural hand-scraped acacia. We definitely splurged, but it just caught both our eyes and we had to have it. We hadn't splurged on anything yet, and we didn't need a whole lot, so why not? We're putting it down this weekend. I. Can't. Wait.

Moving and Shaking

Finally, things are coming together! Our windows are going in today, as is our HVAC unit. Our main floor bathroom should also be finished later this week and carpet is going down on Friday.

We have yet to pick out our hardwood for the rest of the main floor. We plan to do that on Thursday. Hopefully, we'll begin moving our bedroom furniture in this weekend. Pictures to follow! :)

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Kitchen Cabinet Paint Colors: Part 1

As much as I'd love to have all new kitchen cabinets installed, it's not going to happen. At first, I thought I may buy cabinet doors only. Our cabinets are solid wood and are still in great shape, so why not just update them a little, right? Well, who knew cabinet doors were so pricey? (**sighing in defeat**)

We do have a flea market-esque store here in town called The Peddler's Mall that carries cabinets, doors, trim, etc. I'm keeping my eyes open for what I want because hopefully, at some point, I can find a complete set. It just might take a while.

Until then, we paint.

This Stuff Saved the Day

First, let me say this is NOT a sponsored post. However, I am highly recommending the following product to anyone remodeling an old house, or any house that has pets.

The past few years, my husband allowed our renters to have pets. I say "my husband" because I did not approve, but it's hard to turn down money in your pocket. Our last renters were university students in the vet program. They seriously had every animal under the sun in our house. Dogs, cats, rabbits, and even lab rats.

Timber!

Our house is surrounded by trees. A few months ago one of the larger trees was uprooted during a storm. Had it fallen forward instead of sideways, it would have crushed the house. Thankfully, that didn't happen. Here's a peek at our back yard now that the trees have been cut. I wish I had taken a landscape shot, but I completely forgot I could do that with my phone. I may come back later and update once the trees have been removed.

Beauty in chaos

We are finally out of our house. I cried the entire time we moved. I already miss that house. It was our first real home together and it held so many memories, both good and bad. Between the two of us, this house saw us through the loss of our first born, cancer, grad school, and eventually our beautiful and feisty daughter. It was truly our HOME. Now, a page has turned and it is time to make a new home.

In the beginning

Sometimes it's best to go back to the beginning and start over, don't you think? That's what we've decided to do anyway.

What am I talking about? Well, one night I had this wild idea to sell our house and move into our rental house. I honestly can't believe the thought ever crossed my mind. We lived in a beautiful, new home in a kid-friendly neighborhood with great neighbors. However, the reasons for doing it far surpassed the reasons to stay. That and too many Property Brothers marathons. I was itching for a project.