August 31, 2012
(You should imagine that the title is read like the date/title is on the Daily Show...otherwise, it has no effect).
Last night, I woke up around 2am due to the future tap dancer/drummer/gymnast/Bharata Natyam dancer/ or whatever is causing the constant crazy moving in my belly. Then, of course as any rational person would do, I started to panic about moving before this baby comes.
So, here starts the countdown to baby, who is due 12 weeks from today.
AHHHH!!
Now this doesn't account for actually moving in prior to baby who better not come early. This is our alleged move in date countdown:
So, I decided to head over to the house at about 7:30am and take note of what needs to happen before we move in. Since I get this question about 10 times a day, I figured I would post for you all to see.
Now, I'm ignoring the whole cleaning aspect in this list because that's obvious. Any ideas for construction cleaning?
Here we go (not in any order):
1) Get as much done on the outside siding as possible. Some of this can be done next spring, but we will get as much done prior to moving in. Today was a perfect example of me using a bathroom in the house while someone climbed up a ladder outside the window. Fun times.
2)
Hang up the spice rack (it goes in the space in the pic below)
3)
It goes here
4)
Add this trim.... actually this is for all rooms upstairs and in the apartment area downstairs. We got the delivery from Bayview Building Supply today!
5)
Finish the backsplash (notice that the sides aren't attached and put in the stove
6)
Now, we can always paint/clean this lovely sink later, but right now it's unusable
7)
Hang up the butler's pantry doors after stripping the paint off the hinges
8)
Add some doors on the bathrooms (most of the other rooms won't have doors for a bit)
9)
Clean up and/or tear out this area.... in the apartment
10)
Lay a floor in the apartment area. There is way too much dust to leave it as a sub-floor for now. We will just do a pre-finished oak here.
11)
Get a door for this bathroom
12)
Either fix or at least put up a door so the pets can't escape in this unfinished area under the stairs
13)
Pet proofing... which involves covering all of the open holes, like Alok did here. He cut tin and put it over the old radiator/electrical holes in the floor
A not covered hole
The lack of pocket doors are a perfect place for dust/pets to hide
Attic stair top needs to be capped so that a pet doesn't get injured jumping on it
14)
Poly all of the exposed brick (this is in 10 places.....side note, look how clean this is! No tools, no paint)
Another one to poly
Another view of the clean space
Same here
15)
Cover up the window wells. They will have the original trim refinished eventually, but for now, there are just exposed dusty weights
16)
Fix these lovely steps. Plan= paint them (brown top, white front) and lay a runner.
17)
Hang the stained glass window here. We need to get a piece of glass for it.
18)
Cover this lovely gaping hole in the side of the staircase
19)
We are not finishing the bathroom, but should hang a door in order to keep the dust out/pets out of this area (this is our master bath)
20)
Hang trim in our bedroom.... as well as the other rooms upstairs (at least the bedroom and nursery before we move in)
21)
Repair the hole in the master bedroom chimney
22)
Hang trim in the nursery... otherwise, it's looking good!
23)
Notice how this lovely closet still has plaster? Solution= use the cedar we tore out and line this closet.
24)
We aren't finishing the hallway bath either, but we are hanging a door.
This will stay like this for now... unless he wants to go ahead and lay the hardybacker board since it's pretty dusty
25)
Hang a door on our new furnace room
26)
Make/paint window sills for all windows in order to seal them.
27)
Possibly lay a floor in Alok's office. He thinks we should wait, but again, it's a dust issue. I think we should just do bamboo.
28)
Repair the drywall in Alok's office area. It's too dusty to do it later.
29)
Rip out these old electrical heaters in Alok's office
30)
Nothing much! Just hanging trim around the laundry room windwo
31)
Hang closet bars in these two small closets. The rest will have to wait.
32)
Repair the chimney hole in the yellow bedroom
33)
Fix this hole....even with a piece of wood so cats can't escape into the wall
34)
Fix the attic stairs..... we are actually just going to carpet this.
35)
Hang the trim around the attic windows. It's painted and ready to go.
36)
Hang Alok's window.... hopefully the garbage bag works for the rain this weekend!
37)
Cut a door for the attic bath
38)
Hang this lovely, horror-movie mirror
39)
Fix the plumbing on the sink
40)
40 things! That's not so bad, right?! Plus, we need to paint/prep all of the projects (e.g., painting all of the trim before it's hung).
So.... how are you spending your rainy Labor Day weekend. How about ensuring this mom gets to move in before she goes into Labor and helping out? Doesn't that sound like fun? :-)
That's all for now. Oh, don't forget our polls:
Jessica
