Movin' On Up

Finally! We have moved in to Dana Place. Last Saturday was the big day.

I want to thank Shane, Todd and Jeff for all their help. We moved from about 8am until 11pm. I was so exhausted by the time that Jeff called me to help out that I did not want to do anymore. Jeff motivated me to keep going and we got most of the garage moved. Thanks for the motivation bro.

So we have little tid bits to move at the old house now. We need to get that stuff out and clean it so it is ready to rent out.

I do not have any pictures on the new house at all since we have been soo busy un-packing. I will post some when my main computer gets back up in the office. Drywall is up in the Living Room now. I cannot wait to mount the new 52" LCD above the fireplace.

We are now in the process of moving all of our stuff into place. So please forgive us for not being around. We miss all of our friends and cannot wait to have everyone over!

Sean

First Look at the finished Kitchen

Here is a first look at the finished Kitchen. It is still a mess but wanted to give you a peek.

It looks worse than it is

Well, we are tearing out the paneling in the Main Front Room Wall. We had not planned on doing that until we figured that we had to run power to the TV going over the fireplace.

So here is a view of that. I should have more updated pictures in a couple of days with the TV mounted and the Drywall finished.

Progress is being made!!

We are starting to feel like we are making progress (finally). The Kitchen is painted as well as the Doors and Drawers. I have all the newly purchased Hardware for the doors going on last night and tonight.

My Sister Elizabeth has been soo awesome with all the help she has provided to us. She has been at our new house almost as much as we have. And we all know, Painting is not the most fun job in the world.

The Kids room is fully complete. Well, all except the closet. That may have to be done after the big move.

The Blinds are on a majority of the windows and doors now with exception to one that is too long and 2 that Home Depot did not have in stock.

Rosa, my wife, has also been a champ. While I am working all day and in some cases traveling for business 10+ days over the last few weeks, she has been taking care of the kids and organizing vendors, changing address, working on stuff on the house. Sweetie, I love you and you rock!

So even though I am just simply wiped out, I am feeling really good about where we are at. Looks like we will be moving next weekend (hopefully). With that I thought I would give you at least one picture on this post of me with my turn on the Chain Saw from the day that we took the tree in the front yard down.

Clear!!

So a friend of ours came over to help us with the changes we are making to the house before we move in. Matthew was awesome, he helped tear out all of the built-in cabinets in our bedroom as well as the paneling on the lower walls.

I could not decide if we should take out the crappy closet that was built in the room. Matthew kind of took the attitude of, "When in doubt, tear it out". Needless to say, no more closet either now.

Another change that I will show when I take pictures of the Kitchen, is that Matthew and I removed the old 50's Ventahood and is now sitting on Craig's List.

The room has wallpaper that was not removed at some point in the past which was noted in the last post that I made.

A big thanks goes out to Matthew for helping on this project. As some of you that are close to us know that I have been getting a bit overwhelmed with all the projects that I have going on. It is a true blessing to have the friends that we do.

Below are the before and after photos.

Before


After

The things you find...

It is always exciting pulling areas of an older house apart. You never know what you might get. So here is another gem that a friend and I ran into tearing out the Built In desk and closet in the Master Bedroom.

So below what you will find is a nice piece of memorabilia from the 60's? Maybe 50's? I cannot tell for sure what era this piece of wall paper came out of but I would like to think the 50's if I had a choice.

Timber Part 2

Im sorry that I have not posted in a while, we have been busy on the house as you would expect. Here are the before and after photos that I promised after taking down the tree.

Before

After

TIMBER!!!

So this past Saturday, we took down the two trees that blocked the view of the house. We have been dying to have these two trees taken out. A friend of ours, Jeff, was dying to take this thing out .... especially when he found that this "project" was going to require a chain saw. 

Jeff is a great friend and worked so hard at getting these trees down. I could not have asked for a better helper on this. He was soo excited to see the results.

So now, with Jeff's help, the house looks very different. You can actually see it!! The neighbors that stopped by while we where in the middle of tear out literally said, "WOW!". 

Unfortunately it got too dark to take the final picture. Instead I am going  to post my favorite picture of the day.

Boys Room Is Finished

We continue to work on painting projects in our house. One of the harder rooms to paint has been our kids' room. Not because of the walls, it has been the Pine wood on the walls and the built in dresser. Anyways, below are the before and after pictures.

Before

After

The Office

So when we looked at this house originally, there was this office built in the garage. Talk about going back to the 50's or 60's. It was pretty nostalgic as well as a little creepy. I have posted some pictures below of before and after the tear down. We did decide to leave the cabinets that are against the outside just for storage for the time being.

Here it is Before:

Here is the inside view:

All Gone!!