Well as most of you know we have been very busy. Tyler received woodworking machines/tools, so now is the proud owner of routers, a planner, table saws, clamps, etc. He was very excited to try them out, so played with random chunks of wood. He even made some pretty designs in an old wood broom handle.
We began our camping season the weekend of April 20th. This was our 1 year anniversary and my first tax season in an accountant’s office. Tyler went on the renewal, the yearly guys only camping/fishing trip, and it is the first "official" trip of the season. I think we managed one or two more times of camping before summer came along.
With gas prices so high over the summer we decided to work on the downstairs bathroom. This project was started when we first purchased the house, got put on hold so we could fix the downstairs bedroom and living area and has been on hold since. Then Anna found a great deal on Craigslist for granite tile. We went to look at the tiles found some we liked for the bathroom and they had such good prices Tyler said we should buy some for the counters in the kitchen.
All of the granite we purchased are 12x12 tiles. The granite that was purchased for the shower surround in the bathroom we got for $2 sqft. This usually sells for $10 sqft. The granite we bought for the counters in the kitchen was only $1 sqft, regularly $5-6 sqft. So a great deal. Since we purchased the granite we were all amped up to work on the bathroom so bought all the necessary remaining tiles for floors, accents, etc. This is when the bathroom again was put on hold...
This is what the house looked like when we bought it.
Remember earlier I mentioned Tyler got woodworking tools. Well he decided it would be neat to try and update a kitchen cabinet door. He took one down and went to work on it with his new toys. Tyler failed to think that it would drive me nuts to have one cabinet door off/different then the rest, and so our bathroom project turned into our kitchen project.
This is what started the project!
So what started as the bathroom downstairs, turned into just updating the style of the cabinet doors and painting them, to gutting the kitchen, to gutting 1/2 the upstairs.
The poor job the previous owners had done with the kitchen bothered Tyler to the point of pulling cabinets off of the walls. Since the upper and lower cabinets were out we decided to tear the old vinyl flooring up. When we pulled the layers of flooring up, the bottom reveled hardwood. We decided that refinishing the hardwood would be cheaper then buying tile, so decided to salvage the wood. This then led to tearing up the flooring in the living and dining rooms, because there was more hardwood.
To make the refinishing of the hardwood easier Tyler decided we should pull it up. So we did. This revealed that the sub floor underneath was rotting and squeaking. So we replaced the old sub floor with new stuff.
It was during this project that Tyler managed to put a hole in the floor with his foot/leg, and a nasty hole in his knee.
(There is a picture of the hole in the floor(upstairs)/ceiling(basement) further down the page)
We laid travertine tile in front of the front door.
We also got a new set of French doors to replace our old slider door.
We came to a stopping point before we finished laying the new sub floor, because we had to replace the water pipes in the kitchen with nice new copper.
We waited for money to work on the plumbing. When we finally had enough to purchase the copper pipes we began working on the kitchen plumbing. This is when the second major incident happened.
Tyler claims “Three black men came after me and beat me up, but I got a few punches in myself” What really happened though is his cutesy pipe wrench and cheater bar slipped off of the pipe and bashed him in the lip. This led to taking Tyler to the Doc-in-the-Box for stitches in his lip. Thank you, Janis and Steve for talking some sense into him on this matter.
Tyler’s lip is now healed and we finished the plumbing project without any more incidents. We laid the rest of the sub floor and now are putting up drywall in the kitchen.
For more then a little while now, we have been living in a construction zone. Bare stud walls, old sub floor, and no kitchen, dining, or living room. (Thank God we have a family room downstairs).
Along with working on the house we have managed to squeez more things in throughout the year. We went to a rock crawling exhibit outside of Nampa, helped our friend Ty work on his house, celebrated Halloween, and Christmas.
Since our upstairs is tore up we didn't get a real tree this year, so instead we put up Tyler's little 3ft tree in Josh's bedroom. (Notice the NASCAR theme)
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That is the perfect little tree
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