Category: money pit
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Hallelujah! The bathroom lives!
It’s taken a lot longer than anticipated but the spare bathroom remodel is finally drawing to a close. the final tile work is drying, the toilet is back in place, the slink and faucets are all in working order. Yep! It’s a bathroom again! It looks great, too – and it really does (as I…
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Blood sweat and tears (well, not so much the blood and tears but LOTS of sweat)
Our bathroom remodel project is trudging along – we have been sidetracked by so much work and travel that we are not moving nearly as quickly as we had originally planned. Progress has been made: the plumbing is all installed and the cutout for the soap and shampoo is done. Over the past week or…
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Chez O’Shea is currently closed for renovation
And so it begins. The long-planned redo of our bathrooms has begun. Over the past two weeks we have been slowly demolishing the spare bathroom (actually, it went pretty quickly, we just kept getting interrupted by, you know, work and life and stuff like that). The cabinet and sink went quietly. The bathtub tile put…
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Moving on (or the continuing adventures of life in the money pit)
So now that I feel I can (semi) safely say that we are done with the front house remodel, it’s time to turn our attentions to (drum roll, please!) OUR house! Yes, our humble abode is now on the cutting board (so to speak) and we are gearing up for a slow, very gradual remodel…
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Just when we thought the remodel was done, it wasn’t!
So we were feeling pretty cocky, pretty woohoo-we-are-done-with-this-house-remodel-deal! And then the closet bars fell down and we realized that we had forgotten to check on the status of the closets (there are only two in the house). Once we looked, it was a pretty sad state of affairs. Each had a crummy single bar running…
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The end of the remodel or how we spent the last four months and $20,000
Well, it took a lot longer than anticipated (due to our failure to anticipate how long it takes to get kitchen cabinets, among other things), but our front house kitchen remodel is complete! And even better, the house has been rented. Okay, at a bit less than we had hoped, but still, rented! So…
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