Our Game Plan!

Our current kitchen and living space downstairs needs a complete overhaul! Our plan is to tackle the entire first floor all at once, adding a new kitchen, half bathroom and expanded living space. Since Chris and I are tackling the project ourselves... it may be a long road, but we are going to keep looking for the light at the end of the tunnel! This blog will allow us to share our experiences and keep our family and friends up to date with the progress.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Hardwood Floors

We were able to patch in the hardwood floors to match the rest of the first floor. We found a great deal on the flooring and a perfect match!




Friday, August 20, 2010

Kitchen Design - Take I

We finally have a layout for our kitchen. Were still working out some of the details and trying to figure out our cabinet choices - but this will give you a good idea of how it will look.

This is such a big step and it's so nice to see it on paper!


Bathroom(s) - Yes we have two!

We had the plumber in last week and he put in new plumbing for the entire house. We moved the stack and put in all new PVC pipe. To do this we had to open some walls upstairs (which I was not too happy about!). Since the walls were open upstairs we decided to put new tile down in our upstairs bath too. This will save us from creating additional construction mess in the future. The new half bath is all plumbed in downstairs - we officially have two bathrooms now!


Upstairs Bath - New Tile Floor


Downstairs Bath - It's like camping :)



Downstairs Bath




Upstairs Bath - Tile Prep




New Plumbing Stack

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Kentucky Blue!

After weeks of raking rocks, brush and construction debris we started to get the yard ready for grass seed. Chris had 45 yards of loam dumped and we painstakingly raked, rolled and seeded.... raked, rolled and seeded. After only a few days of watering and watching we have baby grass :)

Thanks Patrick, Mike and Jack for your help!










Sunday, August 1, 2010

Bathroom Framing

We are adding a half bath on the first floor.
The space is framed out and it is starting to come together.





Open Concept

The back wall is finally down...
We have been waiting since day one for this and it looks amazing!