Happy Birthday PJ!

It's  PJ's Birthday this week! Unfortunately, he is in Europe so we won't get to spend the actual day together. He will be back tomorrow and I couldn't be happier. He travels for work and some trips are easier than others. This was a hard one. With everything going on in the basement it was tricky to make decisions and deal with things while he was away. Also the time difference was hard so we didn't really get much chance to talk, like ships passing in the night.

 We will be celebrating but I don't want to give anything away so I will let you know the details after it all happens. For now, let's just send him good birthday wishes and safe travels! Love you PJ!

The Wall

There has been a flurry of activity in our basement and as well as the upstairs of our house. Last week the following happened.

UPSTAIRS:

Loft bedroom got a wall. We decided to close it in and make a proper 3rd bedroom, when we lived there we noticed a few issues and while we liked the 'lofty' feel we felt the added bonus of calling the house a 3 bedroom as well as eliminating the sound and early morning/ late night issues was worth it.

Also the new tenents moved in so now wee are landlords! Yikes!



Standing in the 3rd bedroom looking down into the living room



Standing in the living room looking up at the bedrrom, you can see the start of the wall




Standing in the living room looking up, the finished wall



Standing at the top of the stairs looking into the bedrrom

BASEMENT:
We also had some progress in the basement. (Insert a squeal here) What a difference drywall makes! The rooms used to be so dark. Also, seeing the framing and exposed insulation was real getting me down because everyone kept saying " as soon as drywall goes in , it will all happen so fast!"Well after 3 months I was really getting sick of hearing that. So I have been waiting paitiently for the drywall stage so I can get on with the only good part, picking finishes. I have been planning and dreaming of paint colours and floor samples for a year and I just want to see my ideas come to life already! (not to mention move on with my life and stop renovation)


Basement Living room



Basement Kitchen- thise are the cabinets all waiting to be assembled

Basement Bathroom



Basement Hallway- looking into the basement bedrrom




French doors that will replace the old garage door



So now that we have drywall I hope the momentum continues and I will be updating a little more frequently. If anyone is still reading I hoping to get a few more posts in but in the mess of moving and managing the reno and new tenents all while PJ is a away has really taken it out of me so, hopefully with PJ back this week and the much anticipated drywall in place I will be a little more present. Thanks for sticking with me, all 3 of you!

Reno Update #2

Well it has been an embarrasingly long time since I have updated the progress at our house. This is mainly for two reasons:The first is that I have been a bit busy, with everything going on during the holidays I just didn't take that many pictures and who wants to read a renovation update with no pictures! The second reason is that there really wasn't a lot going on to make an update. Stuff has happened but it was mostly work that needed to be redone or fixed from the ex-contractor doing it poorly.

But it is now time so here are some udated photos!

The framing in of the wall for the master bedroom

New driveway in the back of the house