Demo and Daily Projects

Yesterday's "Daily (Nightly) Project" was laundry room installation. We have officially moved into Celeste as of this weekend because we have our bed and our dogs here with us. Because we live here now and work so much each day, having a functioning laundry room was a must on our list. So last night we begin the project and of course it took longer than I thought it would but it looks so good! The nice thing about starting from scratch is that you can make things like the way you want them to. Instead of a major flooring in the back section of the house, we decided to go with carpet tiles. The great thing about carpet tiles is that you can piece them together like a puzzle and make them fit the space that you need. We were able to go to Habitat for Humanity this weekend, the one in Lake Highlands, and find exactly enough squares on sale for the pattern that we wanted. We lined the floor yesterday with the carpet tiles and nailed them into the floor since we are moving appliances on top of them. It took some finagling because we had to cut squares to fit around the different plumbing fixtures in that room. Before we did any of the carpet squares, we worked with the venting pieces that we bought at Lowe's to vent the dryer underneath the house. My husband did a phenomenal job yesterday working through that process. It really is like a puzzle with semirigid Lego pieces. So once we got all the venting bits into place and the carpet tiles on the floor we were able to move the washer and dryer and set them into our laundry space.

 

 

The lighting is a little challenging in that room as of right now because we have to find a better way to word the electricity in that room. We have a window unit in the window of the laundry room so plug space is at a high premium. We also found out that one of the plugs doesn't work in that room so we will have to go through that process later to make it functional. Basically I will figure out a way to hang a power strip in the appropriate place so that we can plug in all the pieces that we need to in that room.

On Monday night, I was at training and Shae was tasked with getting things ready for our pre-fridge installation. Thursday our new fridge is being delivered, so we also needed a waterline hook up for this fridge. One of the really cool things about starting from scratch in her house is you can do whatever you want. It is also a challenge sometimes to figure out exactly what you want because you don't want to do it wrong and have to redo it later. So what we decide is that we want to inset the fridge into a portion of the wall in our kitchen. So Shae started demo of the existing guest bath that was nonfunctional on Monday. He took out the toilet, the vanity, the mirror, and the medicine cabinet.he then took out some walls and laid a basic framework for us to finish out this weekend once the fridge gets here. 

 

This photo appeared on Facebook Monday night with the caption of "See, what had happened was... The light didn't work in the half bath, so..."  It is true the light did not work but the real reason behind everything was that we're getting ready for our fridge. Either way, Shae worked really hard and did a great job! The way it looks now is below.

 

The fridge will be partially inset inbetween the shiplap walls and we will frame out the wall behind it. The little white box on the ground is thanks to the awesome plumbers we have through Charter Plumbing out of Wolfe City. These guys do good honest work, and they work hard doing it. They spent a total of 9 days at my house over the past two weeks and came out again Tuesday morning to set up our waterline and water box for our fridge. And they worked in exactly where Shae wanted it. It is great to work with people who see and understand your vision in place, and will come alongside of you to help you get there. 

Pieces of our house are really starting to feel like a home. Each little bit helps. Last night we started moving furniture into our bedroom to make it work better. We have rugs on the floor and three armoires to hold our clothes. If you remember from a previous post we have no closets in this house so the armoires are especially handy in holding all of our clothes. And now that we have our own washer and dryer working we can begin filling them with clean clothes. A big part of my Thursday will be to continue to get the house in a more functional state. With a real working fridge, we can begin to make dinner at the house instead of picking something up on the way home. So hopefully Thursday or Friday I will have some pictures of our functional spaces. 

Everyday is an adventure, and in between working on projects at the house, I am also getting my new classroom ready! I start new teacher training on Monday, August 8th and we are desperately trying to get my room mostly done this week so that I can focus on everything else next week. 

Maybe I'll post a few pictures of that as well. Thanks to my mom, my room will be Pinterest ready by the time school starts. It's been fun working with her and getting this stuff rolling. 

Off to more work and more adventures to