ok, house updates

I've been hesitating posting anything more about my house because #1 I keep forgetting to take my camera out there, and #2 Although we've made some great progress, I just wanted more before I posted again. But I decided an update was in order, so here it is.

We finally have gotten the whole living room and kitchen drywalled. Jenna's room is completely insulated and has the new window and would have been drywalled, at least partially, but it was raining and we couldn't transport the drywall in the rain. My room is partially insulated, has one new window and still needs one more. So without further ado...I give you before and afters.

The kitchen before (a way long time before) The laminate flooring you see here was what we put down (when the previous owners were still living there) as a requirement for the loan. Stupid as we tore everything out anyway, but they required all this superficial stuff to be done and of course the owners weren't going to put one dime in so while we worked putting in this flooring in the kitchen and carpet in the bedrooms and baseboard heaters, they sat on their uh duffs watching tv and eating little Debbie's cakes.

This is pic is after we took out the first 3 of 6 layers of flooring. Obviously they had just kept putting on a new layer instead of replacing the old properly.

And this is what the kitchen looks like 10 mos later. We removed the one window in there to give me more space. The door we put in is window all the way down and its going to be an open kitchen so it has plenty of light.

The living room before. We had already redone all the electrical and flooring in this picture. But the walls and windows were not done yet.

After.

Well, that's about it for now. Except the Chicken Coop!

It is mostly done and I keep all 6 in there. Oh, but it isn't the chickens I keep in there yet.

It makes a really good kennel for now. I bought 9 bales of orchard grass hay and the dogs love to stay nice and snug and warm in there while we work on the house. I've decided since the building is so big, I'm going to divide it in half and the chickens can have 1/2 and I can store stuff on the other side. I'm really still hesitant about putting the chickens out there before I'm living there. Plus its getting cold now and they aren't used to the weather. Plus I'm getting about 6 eggs per day out of 6 chickens because I can control the lighting. I wouldn't get as many if they are outside.

Well, that is it for my update. Jenna and I did mow down the back lawn yesterday so the well pump guy can get in there to fix my well pump and give me running water again. We also put up some good fencing between my property and the golf course. I need to take down a couple dead/dying trees before I can finish that job though. No pics of the fence, I keep forgetting to bring my camera.