Archive | framing RSS feed for this section
WorkWorkWorkWork
Marg, I know you keep telling me to take a break. I promise, I will!! Sometime soon. Actually, things are moving at a slow pace this week. Between the cooking and the laundry and the multitude of household things, and trying to “make do” without a kitchen sink and dryer… plus, working on my job… [...]
Continue reading...The Day of Progress
31. May 2010
Enough with the “uprooting, tearing down, destroying, and overthrowing”– it’s time to build and plant!!! Here are some photos of Day 15 of The Kitchen Renovation of All Time. Tell me this is cool. THIS is cool, ladies and gentlemen! It’s my new Laundry Alcove! Oh, it may look like just a skeletal wall of [...]
Continue reading...Kitchen Before and After
29. May 2010
It’s probably difficult for you to “see” exactly how the walls and floor plan of the house look. Pictures can only do so much, it seems. I’m trying to take “before” and “after” photos to help you visualize the radical changes we are implementing here. Here’s one: This is a view of part of the [...]
Continue reading...A Day Off Today
25. May 2010
Today is our Sabbath rest day from work. We chugged along for nine days, packing up the kitchen and dining room, setting up a temporary kitchen in the garage, and demolishing the kitchen and dining room. What a wild ride! It’s like life just STOPPED during that time. I even forgot to water my baby [...]
Continue reading...DONE!
20. May 2010
Kitchen and Laundry Room are gutted! Glory to God! Yay! This is what is was like two days ago: We worked 6 hours today with one break. I called it quits early. We are totally beat. Wow. Thank God for coffee, which is perking right now. And to the brilliant dudes who invented sheetrock? ILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOU. [...]
Continue reading...Not a Load Bearing Wall
20. May 2010
Good news for me this morning! In the kitchen, there exists a small wall, about 6 feet long, that severed the kitchen from a cramped laundry area and back entry door. I’ve hated it all the 10+ years we’ve lived here. Because it runs perpendicular to the floor joists, I’ve wondered if it was a [...]
Continue reading...So How’s That Kitchen Planning Coming Along, Eh?
18. February 2010
Kitchen planning? What kitchen planning? I thought so! Ugh. I haven’t even mapped out the room onto graph paper or made an electrical schematic yet. I’m working full-time right now, and also trying to keep up my blogging ventures. Wow. I do see the entire room, all in my mind’s eye! I have one small [...]
Continue reading...Chinese-Made Drywall Causing Headaches
15. October 2009
News is out today that Chinese-made drywall is causing severe headaches for homeowners– physically and financially. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – James and Maria Ivory’s dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida’s Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes [...]
Continue reading...Is the House Floor Plan Software Worth It?
11. November 2008
I’ve always preferred drawing my house plans and ideas on graph paper, by hand. As much as I love the computer, and as much as I have incoporated a lot of my tasks to it, I just can’t seem to leave the age-old tradition of graph paper and pencil (and for me, a big eraser). [...]
Continue reading...
I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
- Parging The Foundation Walls
- The Silent Summer: No Crickets, No Peepers!
- Building a Winter Cat Shelter
- The Tempurpedic Mattress Update
- How to Create a Serfdom
- Marg: Yup that was an easy one. Where ever there is a bo...
- blueyes: But does she bring you the items as gifts? I hate...
- blueyes: Hey I have a box of old toys too, mostly from McDo...
- Mrs. Mecomber: Lin-- when we finally got the owl out, it was dead...
- Marg: I am sure there are lots of things wrong with an o...
Buttons
© 2012 New York Renovator. Powered by Wordpress.
4. June 2010
2 Comments