These past few months have been so busy out here in Orton. Here are some projects that we have been working on. These first pictures are from August/September when we were converting the upstairs laundry room into another bedroom for Brigham. Now there are three bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs. Anthony installed two new windows into the bedroom.
Lydia really enjoys being involved and helping her daddy.
This is the Family room/TV room downstairs. we took out the click laminate flooring to get rid of the weird squishiness that was under it. It turns out the old carpet was left underneath and it got wet at some point. It stunk so bad!! We scraped up the old carpet and ended up taking out the wall between the room and the wasted space at the bottom of the stairs. I am hoping that we will be able to utilize the space there and make it a more open room. I hate the idea of a TV or a computer in a closed room, so opening this room up will put my parent mind at ease when it comes to kids and TV/computer use.
Kim and her kids helped us take the wall down!
This project was one that Anthony really wanted done. As you can see there have been a few different windows on this wall before. They are all framed in differently. Before we put our big window in there were two small windows. It was a bit difficult to watch kids playing out front since window space was limited. Now I can do dishes and watch my kids outside! It is really nice.
We ended up putting in a second light on the other side of the window because when we took the old windows out, there was a wire running in between them! It was an old wire too so we had to hook it up to something since Anthony didn't want to go up into the attic to see where it came from. fair enough. The slope of the roof on this house leaves very little attic space.
This last project here is one that Anthony really loved doing, but had nothing to actually do with our house. We got a dog and in preparation, Anthony built a dog/playhouse. that way when it is cold out, our kids can go play with the dog and still be warm. There are heat lamps in there to keep our little puppy warm. Yes, we live on a acreage and our dog lives outside.
There is our little Luna! the kids and the dog are quite pleased with Anthony's handiwork.
We managed to solve the heat problem in our house...Well, my dad did. haha. One day our house wouldn't get warmer than about 17 degrees. I was freezing! We built a blanket fort and stayed inside to keep warm. The furnace was running all day long and nothing. I texted my dad to complain and the first thing he asked was when I last replaced the furnace filter. Um, I had been meaning to since we moved in, but I hadn't done it yet. I took out the furnace filter and seriously, five minutes later, we were at 21 degrees. I bought a little furnace filter that lets a lot more air through and we have been nice and toasty ever since.
Well that is pretty well it for the exciting renovations that we have done thus far. We are still doing little things a bit at a time. It is difficult to get anything done right now seeing as school just ended for Anthony and he has four exams to study for. Little by little we will get things done. :)
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