We’ve got all the sheetrock up in the Living Room! I am ecstatic with joy. Such speedy progress is due to my generous sister, who has been coming over with two of her kids to help us. They have been renovating their old farmhouse and know all too well the plights of an old-home renovation!
I sat down tonight and looked at the calendar. The past two weeks have whizzed by and I was stunned that it was late August already. School begins in about three weeks! If it wasn’t for my sister, I’d be a week behind schedule. We got the sheetrock done in TWO DAYS! God bless her!
The kids pitch in, too. My sis’s daughter helps with my gals upstairs, patching the large holes I left in the plaster where I installed electrical outlets. My sis’s son, a young handyman in his own right, helped with us in the Living Room. The room looks good. I am overjoyed at the progress! What a relief!
So all that needs to be done is the spackling, priming, and painting of the walls; sanding and refinishing the wood floor; adding the electrical fixtures; installing the furnace ducting and thermostat; and wiring up the ethernet Category 5 wiring. I will eventually add wall-to wall-carpeting and molding. We also hope to someday get new windows (and I will install new jambs and sills at that time). I can’t wait until it’s done!
25. August 2007 at 3:20 pm
Isn’t progress a wonderful thing? Keep up the good work!