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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Who need to use a loo?


July 30, 2012
 
We now have 2 that work!  GASP!  The plumbing is still in progress, but is really exciting.  Now, we don't have doors yet, but hey, baby steps.  


Here they are!

Bathroom under the stairs (aka, home of the toilet known as Yazoo):




Apartment bath (aka the area formerly known as the apartment...it was an apartment but isn't now. I understand that there is some confusion):






Someone also found the kitchen table! It's almost like a usable house:


The plumbers are working on finishing the bathroom under the stairs, and finishing the kitchen, laundry room (at least the washer/dryer), and also the attic bathroom. They should be done tomorrow. Exciting!!!!!

Jessica

Thursday, July 26, 2012

A MEGA-BLOG FOR OUR 2nd HOUSE-A-VERSARY

July 25, 2012

Apparently, I am 2 days off.  July 23, 2010 was actually the date that we closed on the house.  It is also the date that I posted this:

"I can't wait to see what other surprises we find."  (This was a sarcastic reference to a surprise mold filled closet).  Oh, poor innocent Jessica.  Little did I know.... little did I know....

Sigh.

Before you get lost in this Mega-Blog, you can be a part of having us get ready to move in the house so that we can actually live in this house. We are having a PATEL HOUSE WORK DAY on August 4 at 9am (but you can come anytime). There will be things for all skills levels (just no kids... too many health hazards) and interests and you can come anytime. Drinks and food will be provided :-)

Anyway, enough of that.  Here is a review of our progress on the house. Starting with when we walked through/closed on the house, followed by our house at one year and now this year.  Here it is:  

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

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Front parlor
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Front room
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Dining room
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The apartment area
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July 2011-ish (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 contained the staircase to go up):




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Bathroom under the stairs
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Random hall to basement/apartment/foyer (skipped before):

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Basement (parts)

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The original stairs are now a closet. Here our the new stairs, which are on the other side:



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(Still looks almost the same, although I didn't get a pic of our lovely support beams)


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The closet became part of the master bath
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Nursery
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Hallway upstairs between bedrooms
July 2010 (I know it's blurry, but it's what we have)


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Upstairs hall bathroom

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The attic
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And for those who prefer my voiceover and poorly taped video, here are video tours. 

Enjoy!

Jessica

Attic tour:



2nd floor tour:




1st floor tour: