Saturday, January 15, 2011

House Update

So the big house remodel is finally done...well mostly.  As done as it going to get for now anyway.  There is still some little stuff to do here and there, and some outside stuff that will have to wait till spring.  Anyways, been living in it since october and definately loving it!!  So much more room!!!  And the kids love having their own rooms (now if only I could get them to keep them clean!)

So here's the plan.  I will try to show you the before, during, and after of each space, one room at a time.  Be patient though, exams are coming up so I don't have alot of time right now.  Plus, the house is a pigsty right now (I've been working on exams all week).  So, if I get this place cleaned up tomorrow, I will start the reveal.

In the meantime, here is a look at the outside of the house when I first bought it.  I have lots of plans for it, but ran out of time in the fall.  Hopefully it will all be done this year!!


House from the road.  Kinda looks a little like an old haunted house, doesn't it??  The two big windows in the front will be the master bedroom.  Kinda weird, I know, but it all makes sense to me.  The two front windows upstairs are Rya's room.


House from the driveway side.  Big window is the living room, smaller window is the kitchen.  Upstairs is Devon's window.  Jaedyn's is on the other side of the house.

Same side of house showing deck and upper shed.  Love that tree, but it was FULL of bees this summer!! 
Upper and lower shed.  (Door is around back of lower shed)


Another one of the back, showing patio doors.  Can't wait to get rid of that upper shed. The deck continues underneath.  The two windows are the landing upstairs.  Need to do something about that ramp before someone falls through.


View from the deck.  The deck itself is in pretty good shape.  Just need to replace a few boards and repaint.


Another view from the deck.  The lots around us are all empty.  Working on buying them all!!

So still alot of work to do out there, but the inside is much farther along.  Stay tuned to see the transformation......


Sunday, January 2, 2011

Back to Reality

Good lord....where has the time gone.  Especially these past two weeks. :(  Back to reality tomorrow....uuugghhh.  I had soooo many plans for these two weeks.  Stuff that I wanted to get done around here, projects that I wanted to work on, stuff to get done for work... the list was endless.  And of course, I got very little of it done...lol...what else is new.
The holidays were kinda different this year.  The kids were gone to North Bay from the 17th until the 26th and didn't get back here till the 28th.  I hate the year's they are at their dad's.  Christmas just isn't the same without them.  I can only answer the "don't you miss them" question so many times before I want to scream!!!  So I decided to skip it all together this year.  Left town early christmas morning for Duluth.  Figured I might as well finish the kids christmas shopping on boxing day...lol...Found some good deals and spent waaaay to much money ;)  Oh well, it was fun.  Had christmas with the kids on the 28th, Eric's family gift exchange the same night and Eric's birthday dinner on the 29th.  After a day off, we had a family New Year's party.  The kids had a blast and it was nice to have a fairly low key celebration with some great friends.
And now it's back to reality.  Looks like I am working for a few more weeks at least.  Can't wait for this LTO to be over so that I can get my life back.  While I definately like the steady paycheque, I hate the way that it seems to consume my entire life. It doesn't help that I have never taught the same class twice!!
Definately need to make some more me time in the coming weeks.  Will keep you posted on how it goes;))

Sunday, November 14, 2010

SNOW!!

So I am sitting here at 1:30am watching the snow fall ... and wondering why am I still up???

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Chaos Reigns

So my life is feeling prety chaotic lately, but I have to wonder, is it really that nuts, or am I just a big baby???  School is back in full swing, so that always makes things a bit crazier, but so far this year we only have karate to worry about, which is less than usual (Jaedyn switched from hockey to karate, nobody is curling, and Rya got kicked off the school volleyball team...yep, you read that right!!)  So really, what do I have to bitch about??  I guess my big stresses right now are the fact that the house is not done and my job. The job sucks!!!  I swore that this year I would stick to supply....1...because I wanted to get this house finished and settle in...and 2...because I am doing bookkeeping work on the side which occupies my evenings and weekends.  But, of course, somehow I have managed to get suked into an LTO.  And to make it even worse, it is 3 English classes.....so far from my major it isn't even funny!!  Definately my least favourite class to teach.  I am all about facts and figures....not interpretations!!!  Uuuuggghhh...I hate it soooooo much!!!  So the question remains....suck it up and deal...or keep bitching about it???

Friday, October 22, 2010

My Kitchen Renovation

I know it's kinda late to be posting about this, especially since I no longer live in this house, but I put alot into this kitchen and I really love how it turned out.  So lets start at the begining...

When I bought my little house in 2006 it looked like this


Don't you just love the wallpaper??  And it looks so good with that patterned backsplash.  I won't even talk about the lovely shade of orange...yet.


 Hey look...more of that fabulous wallpaper!!  And what about that flooring.  I can't even tell you what it is, but it looked and felt dirty no matter what.  I would also like to point out the strange orange glow coming from the side wall.  Pretty isn't it?


There is the orange wall.  Seroiusly, what kind of colour is that?

Anyway, before I even moved in, and on an extremely tight budget, I turned it into this...


Love the new floors... thanks dad!!

Apparently, I didn't take any other pictures of the kitchen (Eitheer that or I lost the pics in one of my many computer crashes...lol)
But here it is after living in it for a few years.  Definately not enough cupboard or counter space.


So after 3 years I'd finally had enough and decided on a bigger renovation.  Of course, it has to get worse before it gets better...


Don't you just love the plywood countertop?

But eventualy it got better, and I absolutely love the final result....







Then this year I moved...and started all over again.  I'll share that with you when it's all done.

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Birthday Wishes!!



From my little baby....



... to simply crazy!!! 



Happy 6th Birthday to my baby girl!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fail :(

Uuuugghhh ... has been 2 1/2 months since last post ... definately a fail!!  This house remodel has completely consumed my life....