We put the "no vacation" in renovation...

 Hi there, Becky here again.

Another productive and exhausting weekend is behind us and I think we're both starting to appreciate Mondays as restful back-to-the-office days!

Emilio already posted a bit about the progress we made, but while he was working on all that stuff, Sully and I had our own agenda.


First off, hiking in the woods.  I've found a nice little dog park near the house and they have trails through the forest where people look the other way on the whole local leash law thing.  So, luckily, the weekend started with Sully getting nice and tired.  Oh, and MUDDY.  Did I mention muddy?  So, the second thing on the list for Saturday wound up being bath-time for Sullivan.

Then, to work!

Minor Meltdown and Staple Purgatory

 Becky here, with a confession.

Tears have been shed.  The first meltdown has occurred, and I was the one to break. A couple of nights ago I woke up to SSSsssSSSsssssssss and a deflated air mattress.

Carpet.. Carpet... Oh god the carpet! Oh yeah... and a bathroom.

I hate carpet.  I could just leave it at that but I really think you should understand why I hate carpet.  I hate carpet because I have horrible allergies.  Steam heat was a definite "want" when searching for homes.  Forced hot air is awesome... if you want to blow dirt around your house like a weirdo.  That said I was torn between being absolutely disgusted by the carpet we removed from the house and being elated by the fact that I was looking at wood floors.  

It wasn't as quick of a process as we expected though.  In the last blog I showed the process for removing the carpet from the stairs and the living room.  That took us most of a weekend.  The rest of what I'm documenting here took another week from start to finish, finish being getting the rolls of carpet and padding into the garage.  During this time we also made the bathroom usable as we started camping out at the house during the week/weekend.  

It's mine! Let's tear it apart!

I don't know what it is about going into 30 years of debt but it seems to drive people to do strange things.... Like tear apart the house they just bought.

  

First things first though... lets get rid of that stupid sign out front!