Another Update

We officially made it though our first week of living in construction and another week of living in our house without a kitchen. Whew. We ate dinner at home 5 nights this week - congratulations to me for creative thinking on how to cook something (semi) healthy without a stove or oven (or sink for clean-up).

Anyway, it's raining again. Yuck. The lake has receded about a foot (from its high of 3.4 feet over flood stage) - we're getting there! As long as it doesn't go back up with the rain this week we might have a chance of getting the lake house open before Memorial Day. We've had a good weekend in spite of the weather - out to dinner with cousin, bowling with friends and supper club :)

They made lots of progress this week! I'll explain with pictures.

The wall is down! I love the feeling of more space in the kitchen. Love it love it.

Unfortunately, the demo work in the kitchen took an unexpected toll on the bathroom wall upstairs.

All new electrical wiring is completed in the kitchen which meant it had to go down to the studs and the attic had to be exposed...

New insulation has been put on the exterior wall to help at least this one room be more energy efficient :)

Including up against the roof.

Our plans are being kept in a highly secured location :)

The new living room window is in! It's flat and the old was a bay window. It'll be SO much easier to arrange furniture this way.

Remember the before picture? I guess it didn't really look all that bad but only the tiny panel on the far left side actually opened and it was over 50 years old (meaning - not efficient for keeping the heat INSIDE in winter).

What else?

We have to add a new electrical panel for the kitchen (and just because the house has such old electrical that the existing box really isn't sufficient and none of the outlets are grounded - meaning they only have 2 prongs instead of 3). SO - since we're into saving money around here - we (Matt) had to dig a trench outside from the old box over to where the next box will go in for the wiring to be buried underground.

Did I mention it has to be 2 feet deep?

Spring is really here - finally finally!

Remember this photo from about a month ago?

Here is the view out the kitchen window now that things are green and I added a bit of new mulch.

We have some colorful blooming things in the yard as well!

On a last happy note...my sweet sister sent me flowers just because she's nice like that! Aren't they beautiful?

Hope you had a great weekend!

xoxo