Renovation Report Weeks 8 & 9

Even though it was the holidays, there were still people working at our house off and on over the past couple of weeks. However, I decided to condense them into one post, as not as much happened as in previous weeks.

 

I was super excited that all the pieces for the powder room showed up! Whoooo hooo!!!

 

Plumbing happened in the powder room, although I noticed that the original plumbing for the sink got redone. Instead of curving, it now goes straight up. The one wall was framed and the sliding door was installed.

 

The concrete was poured in the basement. There are no more holes in the floor. I think this means that all the plumbing infrastructure in the basement is done!

 The powder room floor laminate was laid!!!! I LOVE it!!! And the inside drywall was installed. This means that all that needs to happen is to have the sink and toilet installed and we can use it! And then the main bathroom can be demolished :)

 

In other super exciting news, the windows in the living room and our bedroom, and the sliding doors, got installed!!! I can't wait to use them!!! 

The rest of the construction updates were less exciting. The spray foam under the addition has been closed off and the shower base was set in place in the basement. Plus some wood was added to the brick wall in the new living room, which I'm assuming is for drywall installation.

 

We spent a couple of days last week packing up our kitchen, and some more of Rachel's room, in preparation for the kitchen demolition, which we think is starting today!!! Mom, Dad, Rachel, Dave, and I all spent various amounts of time packing up, turning the dining room into a "kitchen" space, and getting ready to move Rachel into our room. You can see the randomness of some of the last boxes in the photo on the right :)

While we were packing up one day, the HVAC guy had some questions for me so I got to step into our new bedroom for the first time!!! You can see the framing for our closet and the view from our window!!! As you can see above, the window is a lot bigger than it looks here so I think I didn't get the full view.

  

Dave and I spent a few hours one day taking boxes and more furniture (from Rachel's room and his home office) to the storage unit. It turns out we underestimated how much stuff we would need to store and we had to rent a second (smaller) unit. It looks a little empty right now but we still need to move our boxes of Christmas decorations and Rachel's bed here. Also, I got a picture of Dave at his desk and then we put more stuff in front of it.

So that's where we are at as of today. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I'll try and blog about our kitchen setup. 

Here are some learnings from these past few weeks:

I shared some of the cookies Rachel and I baked with Janice and Tessa with the workers. I think they enjoyed them! (Thanks to Holly who gave me the idea.)

Even though we aren't moving, it feels like we are -- a lot of packing, sorting, decision making -- I had some serious decision fatigue last week as we packed up the kitchen.

I am still SUPER EXCITED about the powder room floor. I love it so much!!! It's so fun to see choices we made start to be put in place and I can't wait to see our new kitchen come together!