Category: My Cottage

Okay so I still need to take pictures of the little book, but I’ll do that soon. For now lets get back to the house. The house with one gigantic room in the basement. You heard that right, the walls came down!I didn’t get too many action shots because I was upstairs working with my mom. But Bill was worth his weight in gold yesterday. I totally had a freak out crying moment in the morning, like what did I get myself into thing, and he totally came through. Took down the first wall by himself (the one separating the…

Dude, I pulled up the vent and found this, like what the hell?!?!?! Not even duct work, just like arachnophobia. EW, ew, ew. Cleaning day one, slow and scary. But I did get some better news, like the freaking rockin floors I apparently own. I had told the man on the phone whom I called about an estimate that I thought the floors were fir. He said that sounded right for a house built in the 40s. When he got there he looked at the floor and then said, "This is NOT fir. Do you know what kind of wood…

I’m a home owner! I signed all the paper work this morning, and actually just got the keys. I wasn’t supposed to until tomorrow, but I met the seller at the house because one of the windows had fallen open and I didn’t want it left like that all night, we fixed it and he gave me the keys! I start cleaning tomorrow! And painting this weekend (should be all done by then I hope), then the floors at the end of next week. What do you think of my scheme? I’ll let you guess which goes where:And in more…