We have put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into our home, and hired very little professional help for the work we've done. However, with three small children and 2 bedrooms for 5 people, it was way past time to get a project done that we knew would be too all-consuming and take too long without help. So, there are contractors currently working to renovate the rear two rooms of our house and make a few layout changes. Ah, old houses that have been added to...and added to...and things just sort of tacked together over time and not really up to standard. First, we were just gutting the rooms and reframing a closet, new windows, new plaster and blueboard. Then, the roof had to be redone. Today I looked out and the walls were completely gone. At this rate, we should have just bulldozed! The contractor was so exasperated, no doubt because they spent so much time taking siding off, gutting and leaving the structure intact...only to discover things were so out of plumb and the two rooms so out of sync with each other that putting on a common new roof was not going to work. Ugh. The ship has sailed, not much to do. It may be a major blessing that our first contractor backed out. We thought he had given us a good price (at least compared to other bids), but when we searched the 2nd time around for someone, we got a much lower bid. So, adding all the extra work is painful, but still within reason considering the price was significantly lower to start. What a blessing that is.
First, gutted. Then, de-roofed.
Today...de-roomed.
I found this posted on my refrigerator today by a certain sneaky 5 year old:
When I found it he went on to say, "I love ALL kinds of pie...EVERY kind, YUM...except for ones that are filled with stuff I don't like."
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