You ask?! And you want to know??
Our house was built around 1900 complete with lathe and plaster, knob and tube electic, and electricians and plumbers that cut huge notches in the joists for the pipes to go through.
We have been renovating this house for almost the whole time we have lived here (about 8 years now) and it is starting to take its toll on us all, especially my middle son who wants it to be over or for us to move.
We started with building a workshop for my dh in the backyard. Then we were just going to fix the back wall but in doing so we had to fix the upstairs bathroom since it leaked water from the clawfoot tub. And were were going to have to tear out the downstairs bathroom in order to fix the back wall.
Well as you might know one thing led to another and we ended up gutting the back half of the house upstairs including the upstair bathroom and our nursery at the time and we put all 3 boys into one room.
We replaced all the plumbing and rotten floor joist and hoisted a one piece tub/shower combo unit up from the downstairs while the floor was open to the upstairs with the help of 4 men and myself.
We also raised the slanted ceiling line slightly so we could get a full size shower in there. Put in all new windows throughout the house (new not replacement windows so we had to reframe the openings and all). Redid the 3rd bedroom and added a closet for our oldest son.
After that was done it was onto the side porch which held the basement access and was what the previous owner called loosely a "workshop". We tore out a closet in the dining room to access this new room and enclosed it as a laundry room but had setbacks in the rock foundation in the basement during this phase.
Then it was onto the dining room floor which was redone with new joists and plywood subfloor(which is still there now we have yet to get the actually hardwood floor in but it is here just not installed).
Plus the walls were gutted and drywall was put in the place of the plaster. We have yet to paint.
We then added an 10x19 addition to the back of the house making for a new 19x20 eat in kitchen and full bath downstairs. This again is drywalled and heated and enclosed but no paint or cabinets yet, but the bathroom is nearly done.
We then gutted our room so we could finish putting in all the new windows and redo our room. We added a closet which this house had none and carpet. This room is now completely finished paint and all. I love our new room.
While we were out of our room we moved down to the new addition and had our bedroom downstairs.
Then we gutted the 2nd bedroom and moved all 3 boys into the oldest's room on mattresses on the floor. Their room received new drywall, carpet, and a closet with plenty of outlets. We also added a upstairs hall closet for coats.
We then gutted the downstairs front room and it is also complete with the exception of flooring (we have Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors to go all through the downstairs but again not installed yet). We moved things into the front room (ie tv, couch, piano, and a chair and my workout stuff) so we could gut the room that we have been living in all this time. So my dh took Friday off from work and we gutted the middle/family room which is the last room we have to gut.
Plus we have to put in a new stair railing and have the steps wrapped in carpet since we don't have the money to build all new stairs. I have had no kitchen for about 18 months now. My stove is freestanding in the dining room, my fridge is in the laundry room, I use my utility sink as my kitchen sink and my drying rack sits on top of the dryer. My counter space is the top of the chest freezer or the top of the washer. We have a small cabinet that holds the microwave and has one drawer that holds the silverware.
My dh made a beautiful floor to ceiling cabinet that holds all my food, pot, pans and dishes in the laundry room.
Painting and kitchen cabinets along with floor and railing are the main things left to do other than dry wall the newly gutted family room. Anybody want to come and help?!?! PLEASE!!!
It is really starting to take it toll on us all, since we have been doing it sooooo long!!!
Are you sorry your ask now?!?
That's our onging neverending living in the renovation zone story!!
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