Steps

The new steps are in! It's amazing how different it looks in the living room. It was easy for me to see how it will look when it's finished -- after the drywall is hung, the walls are painted, the furniture is in place.

A giant step has been taken in our progress with the completion of the living room floor and steps. When we walked through and talked about what had to be done, it seemed much more attainable. Just build some walls here, hang some drywall there, build a closet, paint... Now if only we could work as quickly as team of contractors or those nifty people on home improvement TV shows.

There is still a long way to go, but this journey has taken many steps towards a livable house, and now a whole flight of them are taken!

A Breather

Last week was a flury of activity, but this week is not. Last week the contractor was in and tore out the floor in the living room, pulled down the stairs and filled part of the cellar in with gravel and concrete. We also got drywall hung, demolition done and filled up the big dumpster. Now the dumpster is gone and we can't do much until we have new stairs. There are so many things going on in the rest of my life that I feel like I don't have time to devote to the house and getting it ready so we can move in. I feel slightly conflicted -- I feel like I should be there and doing something, but I also have to get all these other things done. So, I'm chalking it up as a break from the house to get caught up. What's a few days, even a week, in the grand scheme of things?