Rehabber’s Rehab

So I started my new assignment at work which requires me to work nights 5p-5a.  It is an awesome new assignment that puts me right into the mix of criminal investigations, interviewing suspects, taking statements, putting away bad guys, and letting the innocent go.  It also allowed me to have a lot of time to work at the house during the day.

The biggest thing we were up to this week was taking bids from plumbers and electricians.  Matt sent out the plans last week and set up the interviews and I stuck around the house to meet with the bidders.  I saw two plumbers including a new company we haven’t worked with before and our trusted electrician from the Rice house.

While I was waiting around I painted the trim in the office (white) and covered up the hideous pink in the office closet with white.  It took two coats, but everything looks real sharp and now the office is well along to being finished.  All it needs is the quarter-round around the base board.  Liz is turning the closet into an a craft corner for her sewing machine and jewelry making.  We might also move in a chair and bookshelves to make a nice little library for reading.

I also spent a good part of the day cutting wood, again.  The wood pile is nearly all cut up with about half a dozen piles six feet long and three feet high lying around the yard.  If anyone needs firewood, please stop by the house.

I also cleaned up the garage because we are getting materials delivered Saturday morning for the sunroom, sheetrock and cement board for the kitchen and bedroom, various lumber and roofing materials, insulation, and new baseboards, quarterround, and crown molding for the LR/DR and Master Bedroom.

Being home during the day also allowed me to take delivery of the new refrigerator and dishwasher.  The DR will be serving as our makeshift kitchen for the time being.

Most importantly, we are ready to move in and live through the construction!

The first condition was a refrigerator.  It is hard to call a place home, when you can’t relax and provide yourself with the basic sustenance of food.

Of course the house need to have a modicum of cleanliness too.  But we will see how long that lasts when I start gutting the bathroom walls and we tear off the sunroom roof.  Bless Liz for her patience.  I kid you not, two of the contractors I saw this week cringed at the thought of newly-weds living through construction.  They new of several marriages that were strained from remodels.  But Liz knew full well what she was getting into when she married me.  I will try to make it better than the Rice Street bedroom remodel that covered the kitchen in an inch of dust for five weeks.

I also had to install a new shower head because the old one just let a single stream like some fountain.

Lastly, I’ve been steadily moving over more and more boxes of unopened wedding gifts from Pat’s basement, where they will quickly take up residence in our basement.  The beds are furnished, the DR table is set up and the cable guy comes on Friday.

So this weekend is the official move in which gives us three days to acclimate our cat Ink to the new surroundings and get used to the place before work starts up on Monday.  Wish us luck!