SO it has been a while and YES I am ...oh...let me see.....160 days OVER schedule....BUT we moved in over the last 3 days. We have finally reclaimed our 2nd floor. Now mid you, our move is not your typical - "let me get the things from storage and move in" type of move. No, we have to dig through millions of boxes to see what we can and can not unpack at this point because we are vacating the 1st floor for PHASE 2....So over the last 3 days we have moved our existence from floor 1 to floor 2, added a few boxes of missing clothes, shoes, books and toys while eliminating things we wont need any more on floor 1.
Ruben will start this week with the 1st floor demo. We have decided to remove a major wall between teh DR and Kitchen area, add a kitchen peninsula, create a pantry space where there used to be a tub, redo the powder room, repaint, retrim and redo the hardwoods. Should take us about 8 weeks but who's counting - certainly not me this time around.
Check out our process over the last 72 hours:
This is the first floor after 48 hours of moving.
The hardest part was deciding what we'd need upstairs and what not as "living space" is way more limited upstairs.
The site of our future family room - mini- kitchen - dining room over the next 8 weeks!
Prepare, Prepare, Prepare for the worst. We are trying to salvage our paint job that we paid for twice.
We got a lot unpacked and made the space livable by our newly set lower standards :). Actually it will be fine for 8-10 weeks. We are so tired that it truly doesnt matter.
Check out our latest "looks"...
Vs Room....her bed and piano corner.
The :big picture: she is bust as a little bee getting things organized and ready!! First sleep over with a friend in her new room is Friday!
This is our new mini Kitchen - family room - dining room...We still have to get our final inspection tomorrow - if the inspector asks why my kitchen table is upstairs now I will tell him we have to wait a few weeks to get our floors finished and needed to get in so this was how we are handling it. Could be trouble for us!
Master Vanity - I added a second upper cabinet since the last pictures. waiting on mirrors to come in this week and then it will be ready.. a dream come true.
The once HUGE master closet looks shrunken down by the amount of sh_t we have!!!
The master hallway above and the new maser glass shower doors - how upscale do we feel now???
This is Tilo's pride and joy - our VERY own steel and glass landing railings. They look AMAZING in the space making i feel so wide and open. Crazy that they are in our house!!!
The future master bedroom - furniture is being restained so we are bare minimum right now~~it'll all be worth it come Thanks giving!!
Vs bathroom...
I will post tomorrow when I feel better - too tired tonight but wanted to up date you on our progress as slow as it may be..I will outline our delays tomorrow while offering pointers for your own renovation - things ot catch early on before they catapult and wind up costing you 100% ore...
