This is what the back porch looked like before we did any work on it.
Again, different look.Jacked up the corner about 2 inches put a treated 4x4 and then framed it out. Replaced rotten floor boards on threshold.

Framed everything out here, still work to do on the other side before we can screen it in.

Inside

Replaced the trim around the back door.

New entry way light up.

New dining room light.


Dining room floors refinished.

In process of staining living room floor after sanding.

Freshly stained with no poly yet.

New door handle installedSheetrock done and paint on the wall. Installed new ceiling fan.

Getting Back To Work

Kate and I took some time off from the renovation once we got the kitchen done for some much needed rest. We started to get back on track this week and here are some of the updates from the kitchen and living room. We realistically only have about 3 more weeks on the inside to be to an acceptable level of "done". I think we'll always been working on something but as far as major construction we'll be done for a while (until we get to refinishing the floors).

Kitchen

We installed the vent and made a shelf for it to hang on, we will be building some sort of cabinets around the stove soon.

Cabinets and back splash completely done! We've actually been using our kitchen for nearly two months and you never know how much you need a kitchen until you don't have one for 8, count them 8 months.


Living room, new sheet rock is going up!

The ceiling in the living room had bowed some throughout the years so we had to jack it up and put some braces in the attic parallel to the ceiling joists.
Had to cut some holes to get pull the ceiling up.
We love the old front door we have but we have to replace the knob and put a deadbolt on it, well old doors and locks were made alot different so we pulled it all out filled the space with a piece of wood and wood filler so we can install the new hardware.

New front door hardware.

Some of he side effects of living in a house during a total renovation. This is our guest bedroom, lol. Sorry for anyone that wants to stay with us, you might be on an air mattress for a while. We moved 11 months ago and still haven't unpacked half of our stuff, I think maybe we should get rid of anything we haven't unpacked because we obviously haven't missed it any, doubt Kate will go for it though.

Dining room

Kitchen Update!

I'm too lazy tonight to make a good post, here is the hood out of the box

backsplash


Not as much progress as I would like for a months time from the last blog but the countertop took a whole lot longer than expected to come in and be installed. Kate and I spent most of the day in Abilene yesterday at Lowe's and Target, we have picked out the hardware for the cabinets and have bought the material for the back splash.

Here is a pic of what the kitchen looked like the day we started:

Click here for "before pic" of kitchen

New kitchen sink hardware
Porcelain top table we are refinishing to use as kitchen workstation
Stove finally out of the box

New counter top installedNew vent hood for stove
Cabinets painted and fridge in place
Cabinets

Alright well we have had a whole lot going on lately so here are some updates...

New headboard that Kate imagined and we built together from an old salvaged 5-panel door. This is the finished product, below are some steps along the way. Not in order but this picture up-loader never puts the pics in the order I want them.




New upper cabinets in, no doors yet, still being made, should be in this week. Fridge in its new home, will have cabinet about it that matches other upper cabinets.


New shades in master bedroom, match the ones in kitchen.
Floor completely refinished, stained "providential" color and sealed three times with polyurethane.
This is the new edition to the Fergeson family, Rudy. Didn't really plan on having another cat but I was looking out the window and saw this little guy getting carried around buy one the roaming dog packs in our neighborhood and before I realized it I had run outside and grabbed him. Well I made the mistake of taking him inside and showing Kate, after that he never left.He's getting along really well with the other cats though so I guess it worked out for the best.
This is the counter top we picked out, was going to go with a solid surface like the corian brand but this natural stone granite was actually a little cheaper installed for similar looks so we went with the granite.