Leaps and Bounds

It's been nearly a month since our last post, so these pictures will look quite foreign to some. The good news is that the contracted portion of our reno's is 99% complete! We've got an electrician coming in next week to move our panel and make some wiring adjustments (due to the walls we removed), but the house is essentially ready to move into clean and touch up mode! Umm...after the wedding.

Reno Project - Inside peak

To give you the quick summary, over the past month we completed the siding, tore out an inside closet to make the legal width for a staircase into our new basement, connected the interior plumbing to the city service, cut out and installed a sliding door and new front door, re-routed the plumbing from the 2nd floor to the basement to allow for the removal of the kitchen wall, took the wall out, levelled the yard loosely with topsoil, built the front steps and cleared the debris.

Tomorrow we're getting sod delivered and Jon's friends are arriving to help us lay it into our new yard. We can't wait to replace our brown views with a lovely lawn.

With functional plumbing and temporary electricity, we were able to spend a night in the house last weekend. It was glorious to sleep in our own bed again. But since the stove and fridge have been disconnected and the main floor is quite covered in construction dust, we've reluctantly chosen to wait until the electrical has been sorted out to make the final move back in.

What's next you ask? Dry walling the interior, installing a fence around the property, bringing in a new fridge, building a kitchen island, installing all new cabinets and countertops, striping and painting the living room, a full bathroom renovation, moving the upstairs wall, building in a closet......