5 month review (technically 5 months and 6 day review)

December 27, 2010

I missed the 21st, which would have been the 5 month-iversary of having the house. I think I've tried to block it out of my mind. I then failed to properly charge my camera when I went to take pictures.

Most of the work for this month is due to Alok's effort. For those of you who don't know, I'm a child clinical psychologist and am starting to get clients/work with agencies/start a private practice here in Quincy. So, although I'm not teaching for the month, I'm pretty much neglecting the house.

For this month, I also tried to incorporate pics from all the previous months so you could see the progress, rather than just having the beginning and now. Apparently, I didn't start charting the progress in this fashion until month 4, so we're skipping a few. I had high hopes of trying to seek out pics for each month, but that didn't happen for all of the rooms. Here we go (BTW, I obviously took the outside pics right before the snow):

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(Some of these have our new roof... I apparently didn't get a complete before on some of them)

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Back of the house

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Garage

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Wow.... that is all plaster dust... oops
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Front parlor

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OK, it was too dusty to enter.... so imagine the same looking parlor with a ton of dust for the next few

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Front room

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The apartment area

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Almost then (we didn't have a picture from before of this area, but this is right when we started in the apartment; the closet on the left is the one that contains the staircase):

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Bathroom under the stairs

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Basement (skipped previously)---> And now skipped here because I was too lazy to go downstairs/a bit creeped out today ;-)

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Stairs/Upstairs hallway/Hallway closet

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Hallway upstairs between bedrooms

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3rd/4th bedroom upstairs (with bath)

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The attic (skipped in month 5 because it hasn't changed!)

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Phew! Congrats to those of you who made it all the way through!

Jessica