Hey look our names are on the sign out front!

Check out the sign that Ogden City put in our yard...kinda fun to see!

Progress inside the house

The kitchen continues to take shape as the bathroom is framed out, plumbing is added and a doorway disappears!

View from the front parlor

Upstairs, the future laundry room and master bath gets new subfloors and a bit of framing as well.

While demo'ing the walls in the laundry room, we didn't find any insulation, but found this massive wasp nest.   The shoe in the pic is an adult size 9!

Kitchen Inspiration - 1920's Style

So the inspiration for our new kitchen is the 1920's style kitchen with white cabinets, black countertops and subway tile backsplash.  Here are a few images I found on the web that give you an idea of what we're going for....

Notes from Lydia

PJ may have been traumatized by painting our house.  The first thing he says when he wakes up in the morning is "no more painting, I hate painting, I can't do it anymore!"  He has paint all over him.  In his hair, on his elbows, legs, clothes.  He thinks he washes it all off in the shower but then he'll go out the door to work and I'll be like "do you realize you have paint all over the back of your arm?"  and then he says "stupid paint, I hate paint!"

The Eclectic Victorian has left her mark on my husband, and it's only month 1.  I have a feeling he won't want to touch a paint brush after this exterior painting is complete.  Which means......Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, I will be on my own painting the whole interior of the house.  That's okay....that falls into the "interior decor" category which is my favorite part.

So it's Sunday morning and we're off to the house.  Hopefully to wrap things up on the outside with the paint.  The weather will be cooling down soon, so I'm glad that we've almost got the outside done. We have three months left to finish this whole renovation project...our completion deadline is January 1st.   The plumbers have been in working all last week and they'll be back tomorrow to do a little trouble shooting. We've had so much help from friends and family that it'll take us 2 lifetimes to repay all the favors!  We need to get our kitchen cabinets ordered soon, but the cabinet shop won't do final measurements until we get more squared away in the kitchen, so I think that's probably going to be a priority this week.  Next on the list of jobs we're responsible for doing is tile in the kitchen and downstairs bathroom.  I think PJ will like the tile work better!

Happy Sunday everyone,
Lydia :)

Lots of Painting

It was a busy week, with lots of help and endless hours standing on the lift, but we are finally getting close to finishing the paint!

We also had lots of help cleaning up the backyard

I couldn't help but enjoy the view

Casualties

So sad, walking through the basement with our contractor and I hit my head on a low doorway, and a nail went through my sunglasses.   Luckily they were on top of my head, but still, that was my last pair of Smith's!!

The Inspiration.....

When we were first contemplating paint colors, we found this image online and really liked the house.  It's actually a house built in the 1980's made to look like an old victorian.  It's a B & B in California.