The Renovation

This post has been a long time coming! Nick finally organized all the renovation pictures and made a video.  So most of this happened when Fiona was a newborn.  They took the fence and deck out early (meaning we had to walk the dogs for ages!), but the wall was not taken down until she was a few weeks old and then everything was completed by September.  We are loving all the changes, but it was a crazy time for sure. 

 

We had to sacrifice a nice deck and a lot of yard.

 

 

Nick and my dad did a lot of the work.  They did all the painting and staining.  They also did a lot of the demo.  Nick got to drive our contractors bobcat.

  

Massive amounts of rain and slow permitting held us up.  Mud pit yard.

 

 

 We were so excited on cement day!

The framing was insane.  And before the bathroom skylight was taken out, we could see the new roof from our bathroom.  And below is with the windows and bricks.  They matched them very well.

 

Our kitchen before.

 

With the framing of the kitchen expansion and laundry room.

 

 Our kitchen now.  Expanded and new cork floors.  I love them!

 The laundry room.  Nick built the basket storage shelf for the washer dryer and the one beside the dryer.  We have a place for all 5 baskets!

 
The living room before was our den/playroom.  It had 3 huge windows looking out on the deck.

 The windows were taken out to add the playroom.

We put double doors between.  It is now our Living room, but not formal since it has our bigger tv and is where we watch tv and do work in the evening.  We took out the old nasty carpet and put in engineered wood. 

The new playroom with the built in.  It is a huge, amazing room.

 We are still slowly putting things on the wall and figuring out how best to store everything.  Of course, some aspects are changing as Fiona ages out of things.  We are very pleased, but also so glad to be done!