Well, our first month of renovations is almost over and everything is moving along great! John is the king of bartering.. THANK GOD! .. so we've had quite a few contractors/handy men who owe him money for cars, etc... working 6 days a week on the house. Pictures of progress below! Enjoy!
Roof repair! You can also see the new stone John brought in for where we will be expanding the parking... 1 layer of many!
All the overgrown bushes gone! John got in there with the bobcat and ripped um' all out!
New sheet rock throughout the whole second floor! whoo hoo!
Ohhh new doors! Maybe not as much character as the originals but much prettier and much more energy efficient :-)
New back doors!
Old yucky kitchen ceiling gone!
Washer and dryer!! Ok, let this be a lesson to all who read. Last weekend I strolled into Sears, picked one lucky sales lady and told her I need 2 sets of the above Kenmore washers and dryers. I got a good deal, 10% off, free delivery and 0% 0 payments for 1 year and walked out feeling golden! Well, Thanksgiving day with not much else to do but peruse the black friday sales flyers with my lovely Porter ladies, I spotted the Sears flier and noticed a "$699 a pair" headline right below the exact washers and dryers I had just purchased. (I wasn't 100% sure it was the exact pair I bought but I thought it was worth a call to Sears when I got home with my sales receipt). Low and behold, it was the same model as my 2 sets... and after a brief 10 minute phone call to the lovely people at Sears, I was credited $850 to my account!!!! YES, $850.00!!! So my 4 years of being a sears employee and honoring countless price adjustments, I finally got my own :-) Sears isn't the only retailer that honors this... so always check your sales fliers!!!!
New paint, new doors and John hanging up some Christmas lights! (his idea!) Hellooooo curb appeal :-)
Stace came up for a weekend and I put her to work. All my slave labor paid off! We got some priming and skimming done - a small dent in the scheme of things but we felt really useful.
Oh and look - forcing slave labor on my good friend Jackie as well! She looks so happy I may have to invite her back down :-)
Oh! And Jean bean too! The girls sanded and primed all of the cabinets for unit 1. A job well done!
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Nice to see an update, the place looks gooooooood!
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