This holiday season was filled with fun and sadness, and between the two, and the house, I am worn out. However, we have started to turn a corner. It had seemed like everything that had happened until now was progressively making my life worse and worse. Everything was dirty all of the time, the dust had spiraled completely out of control. We lost electricity in half of the house, there was no shower, the only toilet was in the stinky make-shirt bathroom in the basement. To top it all off, it was cold. Really, really, cold. all of the insulation had been removed from the back of the house in re-doing the sunroom, and it was making winter in Chicago pretty unbearable.
So we retreated to my mom’s for a month, but now we’re back. The cabinets in the kitchen and bathroom are in, the floors look awsome, and there is consistent electricity, including overhead lighting in the living room (a rarity in Oak Park), and now, we finally have the refrigerator actually in the kitchen.
This past weekend was spent on a few miscellaneous projects. We got the the window trim all put back up, in the dining room and main bedroom and it looks great. The new continuous window sil blends in beautifully with the rest of the original trim. Matt and Thor also got the refridgerator put into it’s built-in cabinet. And it works, too. Probably the biggest task was getting the giant bathroom linen closet cabinet in. A good 2 hours was spent with Thor and Matt locked in the bathroom as they tried to lift the cabinet in and maneuver it into place with about a 2 in area of wiggle room. They got it in, and trimmed out. We just need to finish drywalling in the top area around it. Meanwhile I worked on stripping the door to the basement in hopes that putting that back up will help keep the house warm. We will get there.
