Projects

House projects... I should get excited when I hear those words come to fruition, however, I know what that means in reality.  We've had many 'practice projects' in our home and we have many projects that still need to be completed.  See... Marc is great about starting projects, but completing them before starting a new one- not so much. 

I'm STILL waiting for basement and living room trim.  It's been five years, friends.  And the trim around the new front door that was installed last year, yep... I'm still waiting for that.  And let's talk about the multiple kitchen floors we've put in- yep, practice projects.

So, what's in store for us now.  Earlier this week, I was told that we're moving to the basement and we're going to begin the remodel of upstairs.  What's in store? ripping the carpet out (needs it BADLY), ripping the railing out and building a half wall (with built in cubbies, in my mind, we'll see if we get that), fixing the ceiling that had a bit of damage when the new roof was put on and painting.  At that time, we'll be able to move the girls upstairs, and we'll take Franny's room (how much you wanna bet our bedroom keeps a circus theme for awhile?) and Nece's room is going to turn into a TV room/office.  LOTS of exciting changes to make our home more functional for us. 

When we originally bought, this was our five year plan house.  We're going into year eight next month and there is NO way we're going to be moving anytime soon.  Why, well the market tanked and if that wasn't bad enough, a neighbor 2 doors down did a quick sale/foreclosure and we lost $20,000 value in the last year.  We'd have to pay somebody a ridiculous amount of money to sell our house.  So, thank God, we have fantastic neighbors that watch out for eachother and those we have lots of fun with.  And thank goodness, we're in a great school district.  So... now is the time to make this house more functional for us, knowing we're not moving anytime soon.

As the upstairs project unfolds... I plan to chronicle it... the good, the bad and the ugly as we go through it.  At this point, we've done nothing more than talk about it... we'll see what happens.

But what have we done this week?  Well, the yard has been prepped and everybody is out of the yard for a good six weeks.  We've tilled the yard, laid starter fertilizer and seed.  We'll see what the progress of that is this year.  AND, we have prepped the new garden area.  Here are a couple pics of the current state, as the season progresses, we'll update with the progress.