Remodel 4

It was a week of dry walling. From hanging, to mudding, to drying, to sanding. Next up, the painter (see samples below). I'm having a hard time finding the right colour for the bathroom - greens to the right. The babies room is all set - two colours in the middle and the bedroom and hallways are in the light beige colour scheme - colours to the left. Again, I could use my sisters help with this one. Oh well, back to the colour board.

Welcome to our remodel



Bathroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Remodel 3

Our insulation is now in. For all those Jamaicans out there, that means that the place will be nice and warm in the winter and it makes the place amazingly quiet. Plus, it should help save us some money on our electrical bill. With the insulation in olace the rooms actually look like rooms. Next week, the Sheetrock will go up and I can check out my paint samples.

30-Weeks

Can you imagine I only have 10 more weeks to go. The little person inside of me likes to move around mainly in the mornings and late evenings. It's been fun watching my belly move in all sorts of directions. We've been told by the majority of people in the states that it's a boy and when we were home, in Jamaica, we were told by the majority that it's a girl. Tim's guess is a puppy. Only the big guy and possibly my doctor knows what we're having.

No doubt I am getting bigger, I have put on about 19lbs which means I'm on track to put on about 30lbs by the end of this pregnancy. The required amount of weight is 25-30lbs so I'm feeling okay with where I'm at. At the beginning of the pregnancy I didn't want to be around sugar. All of a sudden, I'm craving it worse than ever before. This is something I'm going to be watching over these final two months.

To think that I'm approaching my 8th month, it has certainly started to slow itself down and with my sleep pattern and back aches, I was hoping this was going to be the fast part.

I promise to post a picture, so if you get here before I do, check back later.

Remodel 2b

The deck is complete. Yeah, one project down about 50 more to go. Martin has done a wonderful job with it. We weren't sure about the colour but it turned out really nicely. The deck can now hold more than one without feeling like it's going to collapse...party!

Check out the electrical work in Remodel 2a

Remodel 2a

The following are pictures of pure confusion. It's a big job, the entire downstairs is being rewired. We even had to move the panel on the outside of the house. The first picture shows some of the plumbing - red tube for hot water and blue tube for cold water.

Hot and cold water for the washing machine and sink

Don't ask me, I just hope somebody knows what's going on

Our new panel

Remodel 2

It's been a crazy week at the house. We've moved the furnace, which left us without heat for one night - the night it snowed. We've also retrofitted the house for earthquakes, it was the perfect day to be at work. I heard the noise was unbelievable. The new deck is on it's way, as I said the weather took a turn and so that came to a halt and the pipes for the return or waste are in and have been covered again by concrete. Oh I forgot, Tim added a job, he wanted to have his garage finished so that was also ripped out this week.

Next week the electrician comes in to move the panel, rewire the house and clean up the electrical mess everywhere. The tile guy, sheet rock guy and carpet guy should be coming in to give us quotes and the plumber will also be here to put in all of the water lines.

Tim and I have been spending our weekends going to home improvement stores looking at ideas and pretty much making some choices. The good news is that we found our bathroom sinks, I love them. There is so much to be done and I pray that we have these folks out of here by the end of April.

Our deck, a work in progress

The garage, waste line in and covered

The bathroom waste lines