Home Reno update

 

Ok it's been a while since I last posted
over a month!!!

took me a while to recollect what the last blog was about

 

So let's see...

landscaping...Believe it or not...still working with the landscaper to tailor our project :)

the porch - is still where we left it
the deck - just a few railings away from being done...then just cleaning & staining
contacting painters...to get some of the interior hard to reach places done
renovation surplus...mess in the garage has been posted for sale online! just waiting now
Kitchen update....is on it's way to completion, staining is complete...poly coat left yaaaa!

Lately we have just been so busy with traveling for work
and watching Baby Z grow we haven't had a lot of time to get stuff done.
Hoping to get the kitchen and deck done soon and hopefully everything else as well :)

Here are all the kitchen cabinet doors drying in the garage :D
can't wait to have a complete kitchen again.

 

 



Organizing and Rearranging

Remember in Jan when we mounted these shelves in our garage

forgot to post pics of it in use with all our xmas deco

and left over wedding deco (still waiting to get some time to put it all up for sale)

anyways for now its all neatly stacked away in the garage

 

We did some rearranging in the living room

decided to add some symmetry to the shelving

 and so we added a second shelving unit on the right :)

We plan to extend the shelving under the TV 

add some shelving and some other stuff to the wall over the TV 

and hopefully we we get it to a point where we are satisfied with it :)

This and that

We have started working on the much needed storage in the garage...

 Now we just have to put up 10 more of these :)

enough of place to put all those Halloween and christmas decorations

 On Wednesday last week we got a few inches of snow

 Grant loves our snow blower...

 Look at him go...

 

 15 minutes later....TADA

  

 Check out the icicles...

 

 However with today's high temps they all melted away :(

Exciting little bits...

 Couch for four...

yes the kitty is getting bigger every day

they just love stretching out and taking long naps...on us of course

 We got out the Christmas tree...high time we know!

 made a spot for it in front of the window

 

 It's up and lit and decorated but still needs some touching up

We finally cut up and threw out those trellises from the yard

 And cleaned up the mess in the garage...

 Only to make room for the vanity we took out of the master bath

and pieces of the tub...will cut it up little by little and send it out with the garbage each week

 

 We re-did the lights and added some more...

also had to change out a light on that string of icicles

and that little dead gap is lit up again

 

 Check out the lights on our street

 Its weird but wonderful that the weather is still awesome

we did have some real icicles

but they all melted away...

 The inside decoration is still work in progress...

but yes we finally have some stuff up

oh well we will get it done before Christmas

The basement....our exciting near completion project :)

we went shopping and bought some accessories

 Oh and of course a new toy/tool for every job...

 We now have some panels and some drapes up

exciting to see it all come together :)

 

 More pics to come soooon....

Master bath update:

Plumbers were found and we have our quotes

Vanity has been ordered online.....yaaay!

Tub and toilet have been selected

we are getting there... :)

I wonder what/how much we will have done the next time I post

hmmmm.....

9 days to Christmas!!!

Our cars have a home

We finally got the shed done as you seen here
so we were able to clear out all the yard related stuff from the garage into the shed
freed up a lot of space
then we got rid of the pile of leftover rocks and mud that had been sitting
in the driveway for a few months now...

 

 

And now it is all clean! Just how we like it :)

Grant tidied up the garage...

Oh and then remember that big weed in our front garden seen here
well it now sits in a bucket waiting to be planted elsewhere
perhaps by the shed in the backyard :)

Then I planted what felt like a million tulips all along the front
hopefully we will (we better) see some flowers next spring :/

TADA...

It's sooo good to be home :)

Ok so remember how messy the Garage was...

TADA...

 The only thing out now is our luggage and some stuff that needs to be donated etc...

 All the lawn stuff that needs to go into the shed is in one corner of the garage

 

Found the perfect place for those many bags of soil..

in our unused garbage can

not sure how we ended up with so many bags of soil

oh well its not like it is going to go bad...more for next year!

  Enough space to park a car!

 Yeah that toilet will go too as soon as we get to it :)

saved all the board boxes to use when we do some spray painting.

Made Grant clean the push mower it was covered with dirt!

I should have taken a before picture...here it is midway

We came across our missing weights finally

they were in the box with our toaster oven

oooh packers - they find the weirdest spots to pack things

Then we unpacked all our glasses

and came across a casualty

the only one we have ever had moving!

We also finished up Bedroom #2

 And decided to go ahead and put all the doors back on

we will get them all off when we are ready to paint them

Look what I found for next year :)

Got these planters for $15

Grant is happy cause he doesn't have to build them anymore...

Yaaaay to veggie planting next spring!

 Today I got some nice Kale

we have a farmers market right by work

 Took out the stems and cut them up bite size

And now have a big pot of it :)

Going to try making some kale chips!

 We finally got everything we need to patch up our kitchen ceiling

now just have to start working on it...

Guess who's here!!!

Our shed in a box :) Grant had the delivery guys put it under our deck

I don't think it is 567lbs like they say it is...at least it doesn't look that heavy

I was expecting it to be a lot bigger ...hmmm

So maybe this weekend we will start on our foundation :D

Until next time .....bubyeeeeee