Projects so far...

In the two and a half months that we have owned our house we have been very slowly been making progress on the many projects that we have to finish by our dream date of May 3... the day I have to move in.

Removing Wallpaper

Removing wallpaper was our number one goal for the first weekend we had the house. Phil and I spent twelve hours one day taking it down from our living room, kitchen, two first floor bedrooms, and part of the kitchen. Some came off very easily, but some of it was stubborn... especially when there was TWO layers packed on. We decided to never do wallpaper in any of our homes... no matter how pretty it'd look.

Kitchen

My dad came over on the first weekend we had the house and knocked the kitchen cabinets off (yes, the ones behind us in the picture above). The stickers had to go too, sadly. I think the men in our lives have enjoyed the manual labor involved... especially the one involving sledge hammers. There was also a wall between the tiny kitchen and the tiny dining room. Phil (with a sledge hammer) knocked it out so now we have an eat in kitchen.

Our friends have been awesome throughout this entire thing. We are SO lucky to have such great people in our lives!! Phil and our friend Mike took down the kitchen plaster walls one Saturday and our friend Tim, a plumber waiting for his license, was so great and did all of our plumbing on nights and weekends with some help.