Alok and I have been watching a whole lot of Harry Potter. Although we don't have the use of magic (or haven't figured out where to get a wand yet), we have a move in goal. December 31. Yes, 2011. OK, stop laughing. We only have a little bit to go. We can do it in 3 months and 2 weeks right?
This is all we have to accomplish (in no particular order):
1) Fix these stairs. They are apparently detaching themselves......
2) Fix the floors. Just sand those on the right that are good and put down a new floor in the areas like the one on the left (oh, and dust! yuck!)
3) Fix these windows. We only have 61 of them :-)
OK, so that really doesn't need to happen right now
4) Take care of this brush on the side.... we must have some good soil here. Geez! In all seriousness, we have to level this out and get a new pad for the heating/air conditioning unit for the top 2 floors. Plus, then we can get the termites taken care of
5) See that lovely boarded up window? That is in our bedroom. We need to get a window. Ideally, we'd also get more of the outside painted, but who am I kidding!?
6) Get a new heating/air conditioning unit for the top 2 floors. We need to put up some drywall in the closet we built first. There is no way we'll be able to get it in there after that.
7) Frame out the attic
8) Fix these lovely attic floors. They just popped up and are full of holes.
9)Fix the laundry room floor and put in the washer/dryer (that we have owned for a year)
10) Put in a floor in my office and get these things out of here (like the bathtub and washer/dryer)
11) Finish the master bath
12) Fix the butler pantry floor, which Alok has been ripping up (back to random underlining that I can't fix)
13) Move the stairs so they open on the other side and build out the hallway closet
14) Finish leveling out the ceilings and walls and drywall the ceilings and walls. No biggie, right?
15) Insulate these lovely walls. We are getting the spray foam for the outside walls, but we will be insulating the rooms/ceilings for sound too.
16) Tuckpoint and/or do something to the fireplaces (3 or 4 of them). They probably won't be working yet, but just get them so they don't leak, etc
16 steps. No problem!!!
In other news, Alok and I were going through This Old House magazines, ripping out ideas or things we liked. Here is what he discovered:
Instead of putting up wood on every beam, he could have been putting wood across the ceilings. Oops. Here is Alok contemplating his discovery (after banging himself in the head):
104 days (if I'm adding correctly....and I may not be at the time of night). We can do it, right? Maybe we can start a betting pool :-)
Jessica
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