house saga: during pics part two

so here are the latest and greatest pics from the house. it is being fumigated right now, so i have a little time off tonight from work, but we still have to pick materials out and get people scheduled to come in. still, the break is much needed let me tell you.

these images are from 5 days ago. i will more up at the end of the week, once the tent comes off. they were taken at night, so be generous when judging my photographic eye.

this is our kitchen all dry-walled with the slider in place on the left and paint going on

the fireplace has since been demoed and the walls painted

closet in its new place

slider in the dining room installed and the first coat of paint on

dining room from the living room. that is a mossy green kind of color. the picture doesn't do the color justice.

more images to come, with cabinets and paint finished. man this has been a whirlwind. stay tuned. we are about 10 days from move in and there is still a TON to do.

house saga: during pics part one

as promised, here are some pictures i took yesterday. there is still a ton happening in the next few days: electrical today, insulation tomorrow, stucco today and tomorrow, dry wall on friday. i'll have some more pictures on monday.

for now, here's the progress:

here is the gutted kitchen with the window moved and set and the old hole framed over

the window in its new home and the hole where the slider will go

new fireplace in the living room with my father-in-law hard at work

entry closet moved and the dining room in the background. you can also see the framing for the slider on the right

more pictures on monday. it will look totally different. still under budget and ahead of schedule. yay!

house saga: before pics

so i finally had some time to get my camera battery charged enough to pull our before shots off of it. tonight i'll take some "in progress" shots, which will look pretty cool because the house is basically all framing and exposed plumbing, electrical and duct work. it's pretty fun. anyway, here are the shots:

here is our dilapidated house front the day we closed escrow



all of the next shots are what will become our great room, the kitchen, dining room and living room together:

this was the view from the front door. that wall is now gone

again, that wall on the right is gone and the coat closet was moved to the corner of that brown wall. the corner right in the center of the picture is also gone, that room is now the dining room and is open to both the living room and the kitchen

this is the kitchen side of the wall we removed. this entire kitchen was gutted

the window on the right and the sink in front of it are now where the oven was. the oven was moved to where the window was in this shot. again, the cabinets are all gone and there will be an island in there

this view of our neighbor's camper is one of the reasons the window was moved. the more practical reason was so that we could move the sliding door to the dining room and be able to see the kids playing in the back yard from the kitchen. but the camper is just ugly.

that sliding door there was moved about three feet to the left and that wall with the cabinet on it is no longer. that is now our dining room.

finally, this was the fifth bedroom that is now our dining room as seen from the doorway, the doorway that is also no longer.

and there she goes. our first installment of the house rebuilding saga. so far, praise the Lord Jesus, we are ahead of schedule and under budget. if you are familiar with construction at all, that is no small miracle. i pray the miracle continues through the end of the project.

with my camera now fully charged, i will take some more pics tonight of the progress. check back tomorrow for those shots.