Now, in the basement

We had a little flooding here about 2 weeks ago after all that rain. We've been in this house for about 17 years and this was the first time it ever happened. It was quite an unpleasant surprise on Mother's day night! It took Tom and I from about 10 pm - 3 am to get all the carpet torn out and the water mopped up. I could not believe what we found under all that old carpet:


Is that the most crazy making floor you have ever seen? It must be the original 1040's era floor that was installed when the house was built.

We're having carpeting installed later this week.

Coffee!

The main areas are almost done

Start the tour going up the new stairs from the main floor.


The hall at the top of the stairs. The door is up on the little storage closet on the left.


Continue the tour, past the new "his and hers" clothes closets.


Here's the inside view of a closet.



And back down the new stairs. (aren't they pretty?)



We just need to finish the bathroom and we are DONE!

Today is the two week anniversary of starting the attic

…and the bedroom is almost finished!

Most of the floor is down upstairs and the walls are all painted. I wish I could get a shot of the whole thing, but hopefully this will give you and idea of what the bedroom looks like. The view above is the front side of the room (where the dormers are. ) The picture below is the back side.
I am totally in love with the floor. I cannot believe how beautiful it looks!

The floors are going down

This is the bedroom floor. It looks really pretty!


These are our closets.

Our whole house is a mess!

This is the spot in the kitchen where the heat & AC ductwork was added. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do about the paint on this—I don't have any more of the border paper, so I may just paint the whole thing to match the top part of the wall. Or I may end up redoing the kitchen. Any suggestions?

We are living in chaos here! But it is happy chaos.

Music

Something to listen to while you look at the pictures