Nursery Day 3

Today we plastered the walls and filled in all the holes with new drywall. We also put the first coat of plaster on the ceiling which had 50+ holes in it from where a family in the past had put up those ugly ceiling tiles. In a few days, we will finish plastering the ceiling, sand the walls (and ceiling after the second coat of plaster dries).

A few holes that need to be fixed and then plastered...


New drywall is in place (not the way a professional would do it but it works for us) and ready to be plastered...


Plastered over the new drywall...


This pic shows a few of the holes in the wall (most of them you cannot see, there were so many). The previous owners were not careful with the house.


One of the walls with mesh tape and plaster...


Can't really tell in the pic but there are a TON of holes and cracks in the ceiling that we had to mesh tape and plaster (the dark black lines on the ceiling are pencil marks when the ceiling tiles were installed)...

Hopefully the next step is to sand the walls and ceiling so we can paint the room!

Nursery Day 2

On day 2 of our nursery project, my husband rewired the room. Since the house was built in the 1940's it desperately needed to be updated to safer wires. So we spent most of the day with the power off but it was worth it to get the new wires installed for the room. We also put in the new light switch, outlets and new ceiling light. While we were busy working on the nursery our little man was busy watching movies in Mama and Papa's big comfy bed. Oh, the life of a 1 and half year old!

Old wires...


Had to cut some holes in the wall to run the new wires...


Brand new light switch...

New ceiling light that is not fully installed yet...



New outlet...


One of my favorite parts of the whole room: new outlet with a built in nightlight! How awesome is that!!?


What a mess! I just keep telling myself the room will look beautiful once it's all done, and my poor hardwood floors will clean up nicely too.

Nursery Day 1

We only have 2 months left until this baby gets here so we better get busy on renovating the room! My husband ripped out the horrendous old ceiling tiles. I mean, Who decides to put those up in their house?! *shudders*

Half the times are gone...


Ugly, old light is GONE!!!

Goodbye old light!

Houston We Have a Problem!

Two weeks into living in our fixer upper, I went to wash a load of laundry and when my husband walked into our down stairs bathroom to get a tool he found that the shower had backed up and flooded the whole bathroom. GROSS!!! He tried and tried for a week to figure out how to fix the problem all the while sucking out the water that kept backing up into the bathroom. Finally, we called a plumber to come and check it out. Turns out the house did not have a clean-out and the pipes needed to be cleaned. The plumbers spent 2 days at our house installing a new clean-out and cleaning the pipes out. I am so glad that the problem is fixed but it cost us an arm and leg that we were not expecting to pay quite yet on our journey. My husband has started to rip out some of the old bathroom. Can't wait to rip it all out and starting fixing it back up!!
Disgusting flooded bathroom...


Over flowing shower that backed up...


Ripped out the shower, carpet (ewwww!), and mirror...


Found a hairspray bottle holding up a pipe... :S


Temporary basin to hold our backing up water until the plumbers fixed the problem...

Welcome to Our Home!

Why start another blog? We have had so much interest in the remodeling of our house, and love to follow other people's home remodels for inspiration and ideas. We recently moved into a fixer-upper cape cod that sits close to beach. As a little girl, I never dreamed of living in a cape cod especially one that is at the most 30 MINUTES from the ocean! My dream come true!! My husband grew up in an old Victorian and learned a lot from his father who is a contractor/plaster man. I don't think my husband really thought he'd buy an old 1940 cape cod either.

We made the decision to sell our basically brand new house that we had only lived in for a couple years and buy some old cape cod that was almost falling apart at the seams. But I still feel like even though we made the decision, we were being pulled toward this house. Not by our family or our friends; it was something much deeper than that. The truth is-when we got out of the car and first stepped onto the grass that Autumn day, I could see my kids running through the yard. I could see my husband mowing that grass while I raked the leaves underneath the huge, sagging, Magnolia tree that had been there for at least 70 years. Everything I felt in that yard suddenly overwhelmed me with the feeling of home. THIS was going to be our home. We liked our current house, but it never felt like home. The first house we lived in after we were married, where my husband carried me over the threshold the day we got home from our wedding-never felt like home. But even before I stepped inside, I knew this was to be our home.

Moving Day!

Packing...


Unloading the moving truck!


Our Cape Cod


Join us on our journey as we turn a 1940 cape cod into the home of our dreams!