It has been a whole month since the first post on the blog. In a way, it feels like forever, but at the same time, we still aren’t fully unpacked yet. Since that first post a month ago, we’ve been on a bit of a rollercoaster.

We were pretty excited to be a few days away from closing, giving you the low down on our house. Then we talked about our leaning tower of garage. At that time, our big decisions were when we wanted to tear that down and rebuild it, and when we wanted to finish the basement. Boy, were we in for a surprise when our house took a shower and damaged just about everything.

From there, the garage and basement refinishing dropped down to the bottom of the list as we listened to lots of loud fans and dehumidifiers. To help keep our minds off of it, we spent some time showing you our house’s layout. That didn’t help much, as I got quite antsy as you might recall (assuming you didn’t get bored before getting that far back…). We did get a couple good suggestions of out that post though, drinking and then working on little projects (make sure you leave some time between those two activities…).

Then we tried to be house historians and guess how the back stairs might have been. While wrong, it was nice to figure out what originally was set up in that closet (there wasn’t one)…

Then we finally got busy, with contractors showing up, tearing things down, and overal getting things done. That is a good. Thinking about demolition guys taking out the original trim work, well, that is uncomfortable. Don’t worry, all that fretting was for naught as we came home to our gutted out kitchen (at least the exterior walls that had insulation).

Then things got dirty for me as I began removing linoleum from our hardwood floors in our bathroom, which was the root of all our water problems. All the while, it got cold here, record cold. Around that time, we asked the (apparently four… minus me, makes three) readers of this blog if we should paint or not paint the trim in the bathroom upstairs. While those four (ok, three) people were voting, I was working my tail off on gutting out the bathroom walls.

Once the walls were out, I worked on finishing removing the linoleum from the hardwood floors. While I was doing that, Casey had her own projects she was working on.

Overall, it has been one heck of a month here in our new home. It wasn’t what we had expected, but in the end, we’ll have the house the way we want it, and will knock off a few items from our long term goal list that we weren’t expecting to get to for a long time (like getting our bathroom back to hardwood floors, or putting a clawfoot tub in).