We took possession of a house on Monday. It was originally sold by an estate to a couple who were going to fix it up. They gave up and sold it to us.
It has several fixtures that give the house character. I am not sure what we are going to do about the piece of missing leaded glass in that cabinet door.
This is an electric fireplace. I am glad we do not have it in our home. It would be too much of a temptation to turn it on in the winter and enjoy the heat it kicks out with no ashes to deal with.
All of the walls except the living room needed to be fixed. This was the main floor bedroom.
Matthew removed the door that went to the backside of the shower (the shower is in what used to be the closet of the bedroom but is now part of the bathroom) and sheet rocked it in. He shot the walls with texture today. Maybe Monday it can get painted.
Upstairs half bath was awful.
Sink and storage cabinet are torn out. Toilet will be removed next week.
We have the vanity and a set of drawers to put in as soon as the walls are fixed, painted and the new floor is in. Chris and Julie gave us the vanity and drawers when they remodeled. Thanks guys.
It's tough to see in this picture , but there was a half wall between the living room and the library.
That's gone. It was the first thing that went out to the pile to go to the landfill.
This is what the kitchen walls looked like when we purchased the house.
Now they have been given a coat of mud, textured and painted.
Upstairs bedrooms have had the walls improved. I wish I could say fixed but that might be a bit of an exaggeration
They look a lot better. Today Matthew was finishing painting in this room and said "the corners are pretty rough."
I said "Ok here is a quick, cheat fix" I ran a heavy bead of caulk down the corner and then ran my finger down it. "Now get a lot of paint on the brush and smooth the caulk out"
Mathew painted the corners and said "so that's how you do it!"
Yep, 1 minute fix of a bad corner.
Someone smoked heavily in this bedroom. See the mini blinds that used to be white? See the walls that used to be gray?
They are now a light blue color and the overpowering smoke smell is gone.
We have a lot of work in the main bath. Matthew has started repairing walls. Yes, my daughter-in-laws can all relax. The claw foot tub will stay. There is a new shower just to the left of the door. The vanity top has been replaced already. Matthew cut it out of a solid surface top we had in storage.
Yesterday I was thinking we had not made a lot of progress on this house yet. Today I realized we have not had it for a week and many of the walls are already fixed and painted. It seemed yesterday we had been working in this house for a long time and it just wasn't so.
A friend of mine told me today he felt the call to be a minister 40 years ago and he could not understand why he felt the call when there was no way he could make that work. The last 2 months he has been leading church services. He is 86 years old and is living out his call to ministry from 40 years ago. God's timing is not our timing. God is infinitely patient.
I want everything yesterday. I have little patience. To God a thousand years are as a day.
We already have people asking us when this house will be ready to rent. I don't know. 3 weeks? 45 days? I don't know. Only God knows and it will be ready in His time and that is true of everything in our lives.
