Light fixture crazy!

I can't stop! I found this beauty at The Rink in Bethany for $12! What a steal. Good thing Mitchell knows how to rewire them. Can't wait to put them all up.

Wow!

It was too cold for this girl to work outside today, so I finally got to do some real work inside! I stripped the paint on the post on the stairwell, and was pleasantly surprised with the results. I forgot to take a before photo, but fortunately (or not) I still have a few more to show what the before was.

This took about 3 hours and I got 3 of the sides done. It's gonna be a long ride, unless I find a better way to do it!

The front is sided!

It's amazing what you can do in one day. Look at the two photos, ones from yesterday and ones from today. Yea!

Siding is going up!

Ready for siding

- or as I like to call it, her clothing!

The windows are all in and trimmed out, now we can get her some clothes on so she is not so naked.

Almost done with windows!

Doesn't she look beautiful? We have almost completely put in all of the windows. Just a handful more! We are so excited.

From this view There will will be three, yes three(!), more windows after we are complete. The finished product will look so good!

What big windows you have!

All the better to see outside with!

We now have in 15 windows! Only 18 more (or so) to go! Wahoo! Most of those are on the first floor so it will be much easier and faster.

We met one of the brothers who lived in the house as a kid this weekend. It was great talking to him. I can't wait to learn more about it!

2nd floor windows almost done

We almost have all of the windows from the second floor installed!  We only lack 4!  We are so excited!  These are the most difficult to install because they have to be installed using a ladder, which is very difficult.

The bottom windows will be much easier to install, and will go much, much easily and quickly!  Once this is done, we can begin the installation of the siding!  Just in time for a little relief from the summer heat.  Hopefully.  We will post photos soon, it actually looks like a nice house now!

Pink gloves= lots of work done

Sent from my iPhoneWe didn't get any windows in, but that's because we decided to wrap the entire house first, instead of sections. We almost wrapped it all, but pooped out. It's 6:30 and still 105+ outside. Too hot for this girl!

Girls work too!

I have had the hardest time finding work gloves that fit, so finding cute ones was completely unheard of. Until tonight. Thanks to Home Depot, I now have cute girl gloves that fit me! Hooray! I can't wait to get to work tomorrow!

We are putting in windows, which will be nice, since it is the 37th day of 100+ weather so far this year here. Hopefully a cool front will come.

Still naked!

She's still naked! She has lost even more. No windows now, but new ones are coming.

So pretty

This was from the top of our front door.

She's naked!

I know it's been a while, but we've been very busy!  With the record setting heat and drought, we have still been working on the outside of the house (crazy, I know). 

We realized that in order to put in new windows, we had to remove all of the old siding.  It was just in too bad of shape, and wasn't going to work.  So, with the help of Mom & Roger, we removed all of the old siding in a matter of days. 

We have now almost completely removed all of the old windows and decked the house with the help of dad, and David (our very handy hired help).  We have found some great wood siding that is very close to the original that will look great up there!

I have found my treasure!

After looking for months, I have finally found my vanity for our master bathroom.  We basically had two rules: 1. must have 2 sinks, and 2. it must have a column of drawers in the middle.  We wanted something that was practical, but yet beautiful.

We wanted something that had the feel of an older piece of furniture.  Check it out!

We will put the sinks on each side.  It is hard to see in this photo, but there is highlights of silver on all of the woodwork.  It is absolutely breathtaking in the sunlight!  It also came with a mirror, which I can re-purpose and hang on the wall in another room.

Now all I have to do is find the perfect sinks for this beauty, and the faucets to go with it.  And, I need to decide how I want to protect the top.  Any suggestions?

New Skylight

Goodbye Carpet!

The walls are officially gutted! YEA!!!!  Except for one little closet that we were not going to do, but have decided to do, in order to put in a second laundry room, so we can have one on the second floor.  It was the only place we were leaving plaster, so it serves us right for being lazy and trying to cut a corner!

We were so excited about being done with the plaster removal, we celebrated by cleaning it all up and removing the carpet in the master bedroom and the landing.  The floors are so gorgeous!

We also worked on the layout of the bathroom.  We have been trying to figure out how we want to lay out the master bath.  With everything out of there, we were able to tape off everything where it would be to see if it would all fit.  It is a go!  The floor in the bathroom does not look as nice, but we are putting in tile anyways, so it just gives us extra planks to fill in bad flooring in other places if it is needed. 

An even more exciting tidbit of news is that we have a clawfoot tub to go in that nice little space in the photo above on the left side!  It is the perfect size, and I got a great deal on it.  I will have to purchase a set of claw feet, and re-finish it, but for only $75, what do you expect! 

 

Roger is coming down this weekend to help Mitchell remove the middle, unused fireplace.  We have no use for it, and it is just taking up space, so they are going to remove it before the roof is put on next week.  I know we need rain, but let's say a prayer that we don't get rain Monday or Tuesday so that we can get the roof on so we can remove the lovely swimming pool from our attic!

What would your house say?

While we were working on the house this weekend, many thoughts were going through my mind. 

Who were the people who lived there before us?  What kind of memories were made there? 

Little things like the cloth diaper we found in the ceiling bring these thoughts to mind.  How many children were raised in this house?  How did they do it without central heat and air?  And only one full bathroom?  WOW! 

While I was vacuuming off the wallpaper (yes, vacuuming) I wondered why they chose the patterns they chose.  I imagined a husband a wife at the local department store picking it out.  Do you think they argued about it, or the wife just picked it out herself? 

I guess we can say that with any house we live in.  I wonder many things about our Edmond house as well.  Silly things like why did they decide to put carpet in the bathrooms (which we had to remove) and why did they put in so much white tile- it's so hard to keep clean!

I just wish that the walls could talk and tell us the stories of previous tenants. At least we have lots of little treasures to help share the stories. 

I will post photos of our progress from this weekend later this week.  I just wanted to share my thoughts this evening.

You Light up my life

This last month has been very productive, which is why we have not written!

I have made several acquisitions for the house- mostly in the lighting department.

This is from Walt's Farmhouse.  Martha and Walt are giving it to us! It is going in the Dining room.

The tile we purchased at Renovation Station for only $.59 per Sq ft. This will go in all 3 bathrooms, the kitchen utility, and breakfast nook.

2 Light fixtures for the bathroom, for only $15 each at Renovation Station. I may paint them white.

Beautiful light fixture I purchased at the Bethany Antique mall.  It was originally priced for like $150 and I was able to get it for $80!  I am planning on placing it in the master bath.

I am very excited about where we are at on the house.  We are done gutting it, and are waiting on getting the roof put on.  Mitchell is working on the plans for the electrical and plumbing to get the license.

I have also purchased the clawfoot tub for the master bath, but do not have a photo.  I really liked it because it was smaller than most- measuring only 4 1/2 foot, rather than 5 or 6 feet.

Plan, Plan, Plan!

Because we have not been able to work on the house the last couple of weeks because of travel, I have taken advantage of the time to plan, and get some things for the house figured out.

We have picked out our kitchen cabinets and granite.  I am very excited about this.  The cabinets are a medium to dark wood, and the granite will be a lighter color. 

We have also bought our kitchen sink.  This was very challenging because we wanted an apron sink, but they are hard to find and very expensive.  Thankfully, we found one at Ikea that was very reasonably priced, and beautiful. 

Mitchell is working on getting quotes for the roof, so hopefully we can get it on there soon!  After that we can get new windows!  How exciting!

It seems that our new home away from home is now Home Depot.  We spend so much time there in the evenings.  I never thought I would like those kind of places, but it is now my favorite store!  We are officially grown ups now!

Slowly but Surely

We have not posted in a little while, because there is not a lot of progress to talk about.  We almost have the upstairs addition and roof of the breakfast nook and utility complete.  Mitchell is getting quotes rounded up for the roof, so hopefully we can get this house enclosed!  Once that is done, we can start with electrical and plumbing.  I am exceptionally excited about this, because that means that I won't have to run to the dirty quick stop every time I have to potty. 

I am working on the floor plans for the kitchen and bathrooms.  Any suggestions on things to think about when doing this is greatly appreciated!  Just post a comment below!