Been a long while, but back at it!

Hello all, I know it has been a very long time since I last posted on this blog site. I am really sorry about that, but things here with our home had to be put on the back burner as I have been dealing with a lot of health problems, as well as my husband and I have been working really hard to try and start a new business. We have been doing some small things to the house, but most of that is having to be redone, thanks to a septic system that backed up downstairs and flooded our 1/2 bath and foyer down stairs.  This happened back in June over the holiday weekend. The vinyl floor that was put in place downstairs last December had to be torn up. Thank God it didn't mess up any of the carpet. We have decided to remove the remaining amount that is in the hallway and laundry room though.

That will be our next big project...we will be sanding our concrete floors downstairs in the foyer, hallway that we built, and the utility room as well as the 1/2 bath. Then it will be stained. Yes, you heard that right...we are going to keep the concrete floors, but when finished it will be beautiful. 

The things that we have been able to do is enclose the 4th bedroom, and it is about 80% complete. The door is still in that room leading outside, but that was because we couldn't find vinyl siding to match the rest of the house, and I was not willing to redo the entire house. Then 2 weeks ago, my husband found some that matched it, so come this fall we can work on finishing a few things, like putting in the new window we have for that bedroom and getting the door out, taking one of the roll up garage doors out, and framing it up for a standard door to go in.

We also took out those dreadful old sliding glass doors finally and have some french doors there now, they just need to be stained, and they are complete then, and best of all this past weekend, we got that very dark den with that old 70's paneling on the walls primed and painted. I LOVE the new color. The ceiling is scrapped, but we are going to have a man come finish the ceiling out, and we will paint it. This cuts down the time it takes us to complete something. My husband can do that work, but he is very slow at it, and this other man can do it all in one day, verses 2 weeks.

I wish I could say that we had this house complete, but the truth is, life just hasn't allowed it to happen. In fact, working in that den last weekend set me back quiet a bit and landed me in the hospital for 2 days. I am on strict rest this week. I am having to accept that I can not be a part of a lot of the jobs we do in the house, especially when chemicals are involved.

I hope that many of you who were following this blog before will pick up and follow us again now that we are trying to do more with the house to get it complete.  I will post a few pictures of the work we have done since the last postings.

Here are three of the hallway coming together. We decided on wall sconces for lighting because it just seemed to much for ceiling lights in there. 

These next pictures are of the new double french doors going in place of the old sliding glass doors in our downstairs den.

As you can see, they are unstained, and will get done this fall as the odor is rough, so we need to have the doors and windows open all day, and it is too hot right now for that one. They open up under our deck, and that is another project that we are going to be tackling eventually. We want to enclose it underneath and make it a screened in area with furniture.

The fist two pictures are of the den before anything was done in there. The others were from this past weekend after all the painting was done. I just love the lighter color with the dark trim. I am wanting to keep a rustic look in there, but have it more open and bright at the same time. 

I hope you guys enjoy the progress we are making. Feel free to comment or ask questions as we go. We are hoping to be back on track of being able to do a few things every couple of months here as well to keep us posting.

Until next time, find a project you want to do and enjoy knowing as you do the work, it is a part of you in your home. You are making your mark on your home.