It's hard to talk about our country house as "the new house" when we've only been in our current house for one year. The home we are in now is technically a "new" house. New is a relative term to my husband and I. The longest we've ever been in a home is 28 months. My oldest daughter is 7 and our country home will ber her 6th house. Yes, we've already started her therepy fund.
I guess my husband and I have found a passion for this house redo thing. It came about as an accident and It's slowly becoming more purposeful with each project.
In order to give you some perspective on what and accomplishment this is for us, I'll give you a little history on our fixer upper know how. I am the one who brought the tools into our relationship and those tools were a butter knife and a hammer. I don't know how I ended up with a hammer since my mom taught me how to pound nails in with her high heel shoes. (I am NOT joking). My mother is an extremely resourceful woman. Our first real project was building a shelf to put a computer printer on in our 1 bdrm condo. It took my hubby 3 hours (again I am NOT joking) to screw 2 brackets on a piece of plywood and then place said bracket and plywood into the wall. When the project was finished we called it done, but we did not call it good!. We have found ourselves getting into bigger and bigger projects ever since. My husband, being very diligent, has poured himself into learning the tricks of the trade. It also hasn't hurt that he has a brother who is an incredible contractor and has talked Dan through many projects.
When we looked at our country home (maybe I'll start referring to it as an estate, it does have a run down out building in the back yard) we thought oh, we'll put down some flooring and paint the walls. It will look great! The kitchen had only been put in 5 years ago and was solid even if it wasn't our style. My husband has a thing about opening up walls and creating an open space. He's done it in our last two houses and he was determined to do it in this one even if it wasn't really in the budget. After all won't we really be saving money after we put in all of those energy efficient appliances.
So tonight instead of just freshening up the paint in the kitchen he is finishing installing the new lighting with friend who is graciously helping us out. I'm posting some before and during pics. I look forward to showing you the after ones .
I guess my husband and I have found a passion for this house redo thing. It came about as an accident and It's slowly becoming more purposeful with each project.
In order to give you some perspective on what and accomplishment this is for us, I'll give you a little history on our fixer upper know how. I am the one who brought the tools into our relationship and those tools were a butter knife and a hammer. I don't know how I ended up with a hammer since my mom taught me how to pound nails in with her high heel shoes. (I am NOT joking). My mother is an extremely resourceful woman. Our first real project was building a shelf to put a computer printer on in our 1 bdrm condo. It took my hubby 3 hours (again I am NOT joking) to screw 2 brackets on a piece of plywood and then place said bracket and plywood into the wall. When the project was finished we called it done, but we did not call it good!. We have found ourselves getting into bigger and bigger projects ever since. My husband, being very diligent, has poured himself into learning the tricks of the trade. It also hasn't hurt that he has a brother who is an incredible contractor and has talked Dan through many projects.
When we looked at our country home (maybe I'll start referring to it as an estate, it does have a run down out building in the back yard) we thought oh, we'll put down some flooring and paint the walls. It will look great! The kitchen had only been put in 5 years ago and was solid even if it wasn't our style. My husband has a thing about opening up walls and creating an open space. He's done it in our last two houses and he was determined to do it in this one even if it wasn't really in the budget. After all won't we really be saving money after we put in all of those energy efficient appliances.
So tonight instead of just freshening up the paint in the kitchen he is finishing installing the new lighting with friend who is graciously helping us out. I'm posting some before and during pics. I look forward to showing you the after ones .
1 comment:
Hooray! Hooray! Dee is blogging!! I'm so glad you started now...
...because what you need is another PROJECT!! :)
mindy
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