No more progress this weekend, Saturday we took the day off to relax all day and Sunday Ryan had to work and I started Alex’s Halloween costume at naptime so no house time. I do have pictures from our Friday progress finally though… I’m very happy with 4 days of progress and we got …
Well it was cooler than yesterday but still warm enough to paint today (so far we are lucky!). Please hold off rain! Ryan continued painting the porch soffit and posts the front is now almost done! Then we got a coat of paint on the siding on the section we started yesterday and a coat …
What a wonderful weekend weather-wise! And everything-wise, we had a great weekend in general. Saturday morning we got out to the outlet mall for a couple of hours, getting Alex new shoes and clothes for the fall (hello after-school-has-started sales) 🙂 During naptime Ryan and I worked on the house, I got the first coat …
I’ve been saying I was going to take a day off to paint all summer and finally the weather was nice, someone else was here so I felt safe working up on a ladder and it all worked out. So I took today off of work and got some painting done. Maribeth has continued her …
Well we went camping for labor day weekend so no house progress but on the way back to NH we picked up my sister-in-law and she’s out for the week to work on the house! Ryan took Tuesday off and the two of them finished up the paint removal on the porch soffit/posts that the …
Weekend plans went a little wonky this past weekend. We were supposed to go back to NY originally to celebrate Aimee’s birthday. Then Ryan decided he needed to stay home to make progress on the house so we can still get this kitchen done in time (there’s been more work upstairs than we had hoped …
What a long weekend, the little tiny bathroom upstairs was insane, Ryan said there were 3 layers of renovation and each time they renovated they didn’t take anything down so we had more plaster from a tiny bathroom than we did from our entire kitchen demo! Saturday morning Ryan got to work on the demo …
Well the painters are officially on the naughty list! They haven’t been over in more than a month, since Ryan’s paternity leave. They never finished stripping, we hired a carpenter to replace the wood they took down when they kept messing it up (and wasting tons of supplies). On top of that they never followed …
That’s right – we hired someone for another project. This time we decided we really want the porch to be stripped (lead paint) and re-painted before winter so we decided to hire someone to do that work. Interestingly enough I could probably do this stripping faster if we just hired a babysitter, but the work …
This weekend Ryan’s parents came out to the house to help out. Suzanne helped out with Alex a ton so I got a break and could get some stuff done around the house, it was a much needed break because Alex can be quite demanding. Mark worked on the posts he made for the …