Bed, Bath and Beyond

The master bedroom is almost all scraped and sanded, but drywall patching is still needed before it can be painted.  The old door to the tiny closet is off and a new closet entry doorway has been cut into the wall between the master and the middle bedroom.  Half of the middle bedroom will become a walk in closet for the master and the other half will be added to the kitchen for a pantry.

The bathroom had been remodeled (sort of - see picture) but Paul is redoing most of it.  So far he has moved the toilet and an ill placed vent, and replumbed the sink.  He had to do quite a bit of electrical work to add vanity lighting and new outlets.  Recessed can lights are installed in the soffit he built and a tiled bump out was built to hide plumbing for the sink.  Tile board is installed on the bump out and floor. Of course nothing is ever easy and once again Paul had to go into the crawl space to reinforce the floor in the closet from the previous 'renovation.'

                                                           Previous bathroom remodel

                                                                   Bump out framing

                                                              Bathroom progress

Two more sections of floor still need more jacking up but the whole floor is much closer to being level.  We received positive results from the flooring we sent in for asbestos testing so we have the go ahead to remove the old linoleum and tile in the kitchen to expose the wood floor.

                                                                 Garden workshop

Slowly, I have been cleaning up the yard, digging new beds and adding bushes, vegetables and flowers. I'm using the bricks from the old chimney to lay out new paths and a patio.  We've been picking lettuce and herbs from the garden and our first peppers are almost ready. We even have figs growing on a little tree we purchased this spring. We've had no rain for weeks so it's been a battle to keep all the new transplants watered but so far we haven't lost anything.  I have to keep a step ahead of all those vines that want to grow back and of course what little grass we have wants to grow everywhere but where we
want it.

We are making steady progress and hope to move in by the middle of July.  Still, a lot remains to be done.

                                                           Digging a raspberry patch

                                                       Chain link and cement chunk bed

                                            Step one towards a patio and new garden beds