Stairway to.... a scary basement

October 28, 2011

A lot of progress is being made on the house! After a bit of a scare with our wonky floor in the foyer/apartment that scared us into thinking we'd have to carpet it (nothing against carpet, but if it was in part of a foyer and 1 room in the house), but with some major finagling, they are level. Here they are:







Now, there is about a 99% chance of someone breaking their toe when crossing from the foyer into the apartment, but it looks really good.


Massive gap, but we will have some awesome floors!

The stairs to the basement have already been removed and are now being rebuilt in their new location, as seen here:


View from the stairs previous location


From the new location


New partial stairs


Stairs

For those bad video lovers, you can check out our mini-tour.



Our living room is continuing to look like Home Depot, but at least we're making progress.



In other news, we need a person to clean our gutters. Any suggestions (besides Alok)?



Lastly, anyone know anyone who wants to buy a gas stove? Unlike everything else in the house, it was about 1 year old and actually worked.


Don't mind the dust

That's all for now!

Jessica

It's getting hot in here

October 15, 2011

The insulation is finished. Well, at least for the outside walls. We will be insulating most of our inside walls to help with noise, plus we have zoned heating and air (or will when we get the 2nd unit installed).

Here is the lovely foam (BTW, we used Prairie State Insulation. I would highly recommend them!):


Attic


Attic


Attic


Attic


Attic


Attic


Yellow bedroom ceiling


Yellow bedroom


Yellow bedroom


Randrom


Yellow bedroom


Laundry room


Upstairs hall bath


My office


Yellow bedroom


Our bedroom closet


Master bedroom


Master bedroom


Master bedroom


2nd upstair


Master bath


2nd floor stairs




Master bath



Apartment bathroom


Apartment closet


Apartment


Apartment


Apartment


Dining Room


Apartment


Living room


Stairs and foyer


Foyer


Living room

We even have some foam coming out from the holes in our house:








Now that the insulation is complete, here is our to do list (prior to move in):

1) Move these lovely basement stairs and frame out this area as a hall closet



2) Refinish the 1st floor floors


3) Refinish the 2nd floor floors



4) Fix the attic floor


5) Frame the attic

6) Random framing/insulation on inside walls

7) Finish our master bath (contracted out and fixtures bought)

8) Surround sound/cable/internet wiring (contracted out)

9) Finish our little bath under the stairs

10) Clean (or have it cleaned....)

11) Put a floor in the apartment area



12) Install our lovely stained glass window

13) Do a bit of window repair

Lucky 13!! Oh, and re-do some areas of the kitchen (we'll pretend that it still number 13)

In other news, managing our flat room/leaves is turning out to be fun:



Anyone know anyone who cleans gutters..... seriously!

In other news, we went on the historic home tour on Saturday in Quincy. We actually met some people who we don't know who read the blog. Hello fans ;-)

That's all for now. We're meeting with the drywaller again Monday so should have an update on the timeline.

Jessica