Come and enjoy the adventure of Dave, Terrie, L-Vis and Margaret. We are renovating a 1932 house. We want to call this place HOME! Come with us on the advnture that is all new to us. Please feel free to leave comments. Would love to hear from you.
December 30, 2012
Day 7
Sunday, no work today in the house, I thought. After church we went out to eat with some friends and went to look at some counter tops. Just look, nothing more. Went to the house and identified the breakers that were located in the root cellar. That took a bit of time. 40 breakers and had to turn all on and off until we figured where they all were tied in at. The cotractor (RS) is coming tomorrow to start working on Mom's bathroom and bedroom. Suppose to be at the house at 9:00AM. So Dave will meet up with him in the morning. Mom and I will come later on in the day. Don't do 9:00AM to well. That was it for today. Dave drew up the blueprints for Mom's rooms. Heck, we may get into the house by Spring. We will just wait and see. Guess I'll post more tomorrow. Until later...
December 29, 2012
Day 6
Lunch Time |
Boys & their toys |
Master bedroom |
Kitchen Island |
Kitchen Island |
Day 5
Painted Bead Board |
December 27, 2012
Day 4
Dining Room |
Kitchen |
Day 3
Coastal Cedar panel |
Bead Board |
Wow!!! What a storm we had last night and this morning. Mom & I got up at 5AM to go After Christmas Shopping. Took L-Vis outside, gosh it was COLD. I told Mom and we decided to go back to bed. Didn't fight the issue. Dave went on to Walkertown and worked on the house. When we got out of bed, we went shopping. Good haul. Dave went to Lowe's Hardware and bought supplies, bead board and Coastal Cedar paneling. Dave started speckling the kitchen walls. I decided on the colors for the kitchen and dining room. Mom started pulling up staples from the master bedroom floor. When she got tired, she went shopping again. Dave & I talked about bead boarding the kitchen island. I think it will look good. Been looking at Coastal Living magazines. Could be good or could not be good. Two neighbors came over (JL & RT) and had nice visits with them. Gosh, it's great to be back in this neighborhood again. Came home looked at Pinterest for awhile for ideas for the kitchen. So exciting to look at the pictures and think it could be ours. Started making notes to start this blog. After looking on the computer at ideas, I scrapped the paint colors I had chose. The colors now will be white bead board throughout the house from chair railing down. Color on the top of walls. White door and window trimming also. Bead board in main bathroom. Coastal Cedar paneling in the den. Mom said she would like in her bedroom perhaps sand or green color and bathroom be blue. Dave wants to build drop down clothes rack in the laundry room. Looked online at LowesHardware.com for appliances. So many expensive things out there. We will see what comes about. Until later...
Day 2
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
Fixed breakfast for everyone
Cooked a turkey for dinner
Had all the meal items ready for later on
Decided to go finish stripping the wallpaper at the house. We took the wire shelving out of the pantry. The task of looking for color schemes has fell on my shoulders. What a chore. So I had colors and colors of paint chips to look through. We all love the beach, so that is what we want to reflect in the color theme for the house. OMG!! I will be posting pictures when I get a chance to do so. I so confussed. Let's sleep on it. Wish me luck.
Hope you all remembered to wish Jesus Happy Birthday. Let's go fix our Christmas meal. MMMMMM!
Until later ...
Fixed breakfast for everyone
Cooked a turkey for dinner
Had all the meal items ready for later on
Decided to go finish stripping the wallpaper at the house. We took the wire shelving out of the pantry. The task of looking for color schemes has fell on my shoulders. What a chore. So I had colors and colors of paint chips to look through. We all love the beach, so that is what we want to reflect in the color theme for the house. OMG!! I will be posting pictures when I get a chance to do so. I so confussed. Let's sleep on it. Wish me luck.
Hope you all remembered to wish Jesus Happy Birthday. Let's go fix our Christmas meal. MMMMMM!
Happy Birthday Jesus |
Day 1
Master bedroom carpet was pulled up & showed that a fireplace was closed off |
Christmas Eve!! Got to hurry up - Santa is coming tonight!!
Pulling carpet up from the Master Bedroom |
The House
1932 Bungalow Brick House
6 rooms
1 bathroom
well lighted - natural & electrical
a lot of windows throughout
wood fireplace was closed in the den - needs gas & fire logs
engineered wood flooring in kitchen & den
root cellar
french doors between dining room & living room
original glass door knobs
original picture molding around the top of walls
original front door
original built-in bookcase in living room
built-in corner hutch in dining room
original bead boards throughout
walk-in food pantry
eat-in galley style kitchen
kitchen island
solid surface counter tops
1 acre lot
See why it was hard to stay away from this place?
No other house could hold up to the personality this house has.
6 rooms
1 bathroom
well lighted - natural & electrical
a lot of windows throughout
wood fireplace was closed in the den - needs gas & fire logs
engineered wood flooring in kitchen & den
root cellar
french doors between dining room & living room
original glass door knobs
original picture molding around the top of walls
original front door
original built-in bookcase in living room
built-in corner hutch in dining room
original bead boards throughout
walk-in food pantry
eat-in galley style kitchen
kitchen island
solid surface counter tops
1 acre lot
See why it was hard to stay away from this place?
No other house could hold up to the personality this house has.
Introduction to our New Adventure
Let me start with saying thank you for reading this blog. My family (Dave - husband, Terrie - myself and L-Vis - 13 yr old German Short-haired Pointer, lived in Walkertown, NC for 9 1/2 years in this rented house. We loved the house but was not big enough for our addition. We invited my Mom, Margaret, to move in with us. We needed a larger house. One with another bathroom and another bedroom. We searched & searched. We found one that we all liked in Rural Hall, NC. We signed the papers and the house was ours. All 4 of us moved in together. After 4 months, we are not happy with the DEVELOPMENT we are in. The house is great but we were not told alot of things about the neighborhood and the do's & don't's of Developmental Living. We all have decided that we miss Walkertown & the house that we were renting. We talked with the lady that we were renting from & told her of our dilemma. We wanted to buy the house from her. She agreed! So that is were we are now. I have friends that have been asking us about the house, when we were going to be moving, etc. They have said that they could tell that we were not happy in Rural Hall. Let me tell you, friends are super. They are very supportive about our decisions. I want to thank them all. Love you guys.
We are starting our adventure 12-24-12.
We want to renovate the house before we move in. Here are some things on our Wish List.
We are starting our adventure 12-24-12.
The Family Margaret, Terrie, Dave & L-Vis |
We want to renovate the house before we move in. Here are some things on our Wish List.
- remove carpet from all the rooms - original hardwood flooring is under the carpet
- strip the wallpaper from the kitchen walls
- bead board through out the house - some original bead board is exposed where we want to match it up with the new
- new appliances
- build a bathroom for Mom
- renovate her bedroom
- paint all rooms
- make adjustments to the walk-in food pantry or move the location of the pantry
- strip the popcorn ceiling in kitchen & den
- totally renovated laundry room
- plank board the ceilings
- rework the den (man cave)
- exterior work of house is needed
- rework the master bathroom
- blackboard paint a wall in the kitchen
- add gas & gas logs in existing fireplace
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