Beauty

The weather has been wonderful and sunny, showing off oak trees that don't know everyone is listening to songs about snow and rushing headlong into Christmas. It is nice to see nature taking her time. 

Thankful..

for these guys.

 

 

And all their craziness.

Demolition

Once you tear up that first piece of carpet you've committed to at least replacing the flooring. Once the walls and ceiling come down, you're all in. So here goes.

We've had some help from Caleb, but Eric has done the bulk of the work.

The brewery is going in the old wet bar area. There is already plumbing there so that is a bonus.

Flooring and the bar are gone.

Ceiling is down so that more supports can be added to take care of the upstairs floors creaking when you walk on them and to counter 40 years of settling.

Paneling is off the wall because paneling is just gross. And to make way for the new windows. Although this is a demolition picture, you can see the hardibacker down on the floor ready for the new travertine (sunroom) and ceramic tile (brewery).

The Before Pictures

One of the main reasons I picked up this blog again was to document the remodeling project we are working on. Since we don't keep traditional photo albums any more, this blog is somewhere I can keep track of our lives and the changes as they happen. I should have it printed someday.

Right now we are turning the unused, back third of our living room into a sunroom and brewery. This process actually started at the end of July.

Space formerly used as elliptical storage.

 

 

This shows the entire 10x20 space, although it's a little hard to see the dark corner where the bar is.

The wet bar we never used for that purpose. It has been an office, storage space, and "catch all". We were going to try to keep the light, but it has since had a run-in with Caleb's mountain bike and I'm not sure if it is salvageable.

Although it seems this is a never-ending project, looking back at these before pictures it is amazing how much work we've gotten done so far.

Dinner For One

Let me preface this post by saying I have been sick, sick, sick for the past eight days. Today I finally felt well enough to cook dinner.

I knew Eric wouldn't be home because he flew out on business this morning. (Although I forgot he was leaving until I saw him with a suitcase before work. I did say I have been sick.) Madeleine is usually home on Thursdays and I can't keep track of Caleb's work schedule.

I left work as soon as possible to start dinner. It wasn't much of a surprise to find Caleb did have to work. I decided to continue on with dinner. Shortly after I got the potatoes in the oven, there was a text from Madeleine saying she was going out to eat with Chris.

I carried on and had a pretty decent dinner for one while enjoying the season 8 finale of Doc Martin. Yum!