A day in the life: House Pics

For those interested in an update on the house - we've been in process for 5 weeks, living elsewhere for 4 weeks, are over (in theory) 25% done (timewise), and they will be finishing the framing next week.

There have been a couple of bumps in the road, some expected - we had to take the chimney out (or pay a bunch extra to lengthen it and bring it up to code);

Some unexpected - the company that makes our floors no longer exists, so we are going to have different (nicer) flooring in the new part of the house (extra cost picked up by Peter, our handy dandy contractor) and they framed the front window incorrectly, so rather than reframe it, we are going to put a new window in (yay! I hated that old one).

For the most part, however, things are going as planned and everything looks great so far.

Our windows have already arrived and will be going in soon. We ordered our front door a couple of days ago and that will be in at the beginning of August.

My biggest concern - the size of the backyard, still causes me anxiety on and off. It will definitely be smaller (duh). But it looks like it will still be plenty of room for us. And living in the duplex, which is in quite a nice neighborhood, still serves to remind me how much more I love the location of our house, and how this was the right choice for us.

I thought I would mind the extra 7 minutes to walk anywhere, but it turns out the bigger downside of our current location is the traffic on the street and the less friendly neighbors. I have really gotten used to knowing every single person on our block, and never hearing any street noise. I won't get into how one day I had no fewer than 4 people stop and come up to our front door to find out if I knew that my naked three year old was playing in the front yard. Apparently that is considered a CPS offense around here. Oh how I miss our tight knit neighbors.

Alright - on to the promised pictures!

Demolished kitchen, dining room, looking into Samuel's and Shira's room, and the extra bedroom behind that.

Goodbye hideous bathroom. I won't miss you. I can't believe I won't have to use you anymore.

I also won't miss our wall heater - the only source of heat in the house. Yep, that's what that smaller hole next to the doorway was. Broken thermostat still hanging off the wall, though.