For the last couple of weeks we have been working on getting the house livable. Its still going to take a while longer. But we have managed to get a lot accomplished. One of the first things to be done was getting heat and tearing out the rest of the living room ceiling.
The living room ceiling was only partly there to begin with due to the tub that the previous owners had installed and I am guessing they just didn't get to finish, or didn't care. It wasn't a neat hole or something that could have easily have been patched, so out it went. There was a ton of wood and plaster all over the place and all the dust! The dust is absolutely horrible, you breath it in no matter what you. I tried wearing the dust mask, bandana, my shirt, nothing was working. We also tore out the ugly, faded, used to be a blue-green carpet that now is a bland gray, in both the living room and dining room.
Someone had mentioned about maybe tearing out the wall between the dining room and kitchen, to open the place up, and I got to thinking about it and suggested it to Ethan. His only concern was whether or not the wall was a weightbearing wall. I had to go to work on that particular Sat. and came home to it already mostly devoured. Alan informed me that the wall had been attacking him, therefore he felt the need to give it a Karate kick to teach it a lesson. As you can tell the wall was not a weight bearing wall. Once it was removed, the place looks a thousand times better and has a lot more natural light.
Because the wall had come out, Ethan and Dad said to pull out the ceiling in both D.R. and Kitchen. Reason being that it was a plaster ceiling and it was just going to keep falling down in temperature changes as it had already been doing. So out went those ceilings. Ethan and Jody have been busy setting up the propane tanks for our heating system and getting the water lines in. A lot of the plumbing lines had burst two year before because the place hadn't been winterized in time.
We are anxiously waiting to get the electric turned on so we can start staying later, but since the place has been vacant for more than a year, the electric company requires an inspection. We are still waiting to the gentleman to come out and do it. Once that takes place, the water will be on again. That means so many different things for me. Number one, a functioning toilet. The Eberle's live very close to us and have been generously offering the use of their bathroom for us.
We bought a used stove to replace the dilapatated oven that currently sit there, and will be getting a new fridge. Ethan and I have been working on a new design for the Kitchen and I am sooo excited. We do have pictures, but I can't post right now. We are making progress!
It was decided that the laundry room would be best upstairs in the small room next to the bathroom. I came up with this brilliant idea for linen closet. Ethan is going to install a dual sided opening cabinets in the wall between both rooms. I can fold towels and stuff and just put them in the cupboard above the washing machine and dryer, and they can just pull them out in the bathroom. We are also going to have a shelf made just for the dirty clothes to be put in, and I can open the cabinet on my side and just pull it all out to do laundry. I mention this to my Mother-in-law and she loved the idea.
As for the next messy job, the old chimney is being torn out. There are three chimneys on the house. One for the fire place, one for the old oil heater system which had some leaks in it and caused some water damage, and the third one for over the leaking one. The Damaged one is coming out to let us have some more room in the kitchen.
I know there is a lot of work, but I can't wait to see it done. It is all mine to play with.
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