On my own:The rainbow connection

Well dad got on the road yesterday and arrived back in Brainerd today. Thus, I am on my own. Well, as on my own as my friends will let me be. Here's some pics of dad's work before he left yesterday and some of my color choices from today.

Warning: no new pictures tomorrow, but I'll have full-color updates after the painting party on Monday!


Trimmed counter top (SOOO nice)


Another view


Athenian green in the kitchen


Caramel Latte in the living room (this is going to look so pimp)


More caramel latte


Caramel Latte and the brick


Liquid blue in the laundry bathroom (it's even brighter in person)

That's it for now!

The Last Crusade: Renovation days 5 and 6

Today ended the bulk of my renovations! (Or at least the ones to make the house livable) Dad leaves tomorrow morning, and after that I'm on my own.

It's hard to imagine how much we've done in the last 6 days. Oh so much! I am forever grateful for my dad being able to come down for the week and make himself a slave to my investment. I just hope that as I continue to work on projects I can keep up his level of quality.

I will continue to post pictures of projects as I finish them, they just won't be as frequent. Here's the house as it stood this evening:


Back bedroom


Other side of back bedroom


Kitchen cabinets with new granite tile counters (the tile is black, it's just dirty from the mortar)


Other view of counters


Middle bedroom with new window and carpet


New bathroom door in laundry


New vanity in laundry bath


Grouted laundry tile


Front bedroom (I've finally decided to make this my room by the way)


New family room window


Trimmed French doors


Trimmed front window and door


The work crew (including the Mighty Hand of Tim) sitting on Matt's baby (the completed wood floor)


The Man of the Year

Next up: this weekend I will be filling holes in the walls and getting the place ready for my painting party on Monday!

Come together: Renovation Day 4

Completed living room floor lit by new overhead lights


New floor, new lights, and Tim


New hall floor

Dining room floor and set cabinets


Cabinets installed


Other view of cabinets


Laundry tile


Bathroom tile


Proof that Susan worked: dirty boogers

Extreme Home Makeover: Day 3

We started putting in my new wood floor


Another view of wood floor


We fixed the rotting floor in the laundry room...


...and removed the attached bathroom


Dad framed some windows this morning: laundry


Front bedroom


Dining room


New kitchen door


Kitchen door outside


New front door


Front door from inside


Start of can lights in living room


What my cabinets are going to look like


Tracy and Matt enjoying the new floor


Me napping on new floor at the end of the day

The Metamorphosis: Acts I and II

So, in case you hadn't yet heard, I finally have a house! And I'm renovating it! For the last two days and the next two, my dad, a half dozen friends, and I are in the process of making the house livable. Progress has been made, here's how things have progressed over the last two days.

Windows

After inspecting the house, my dad decided the windows should all be replaced. Since I built into my loan a contingency for things like this, we've been working on getting that done. Here are the new windows throughout the house:


New dining room window


New windows in front bedroom


New laundry window

The evolution of a new window:

The initial hole from the outside


Initial hole from inside


Installed inside


Installed outside


New front windows


New front windows from inside (and Susan's butt)

Kitchen

This is what the kitchen looked like to start with



After day one.


After day two


All of the cabinets we put built today


Matt and Ryan: Cabinet Conquerors

The Family Room


The indoor siding comes down on day 1


No more siding


New French doors (which Dad worked dang hard to get in)


French doors from outside

Misc



Tim's mom and Allison planted flowers in my new garden


Tim and Tracy working on outlet polarization


Carpet torn out in living room

I'll post more pictures tomorrow!