Little by little

And we have closets! Two out of five ain't bad.....for now. The foyer closet is perfect (now if I could just get it perfectly organized) and I love this new closet organizer I discovered. Cameron's closet is now built to hold most of our clothes until we can figure our our strange small, master closet situation. Our bedroom feels like a room now and less like a giant closet full of moving boxes.

We have a design plan coming together for the kitchen. It might look a little something like this. I just have to track down that backsplash tile, pick a counter and some lighting. My vision is starting to come together for the kitchen.

The master bath; however... is a whole other story. We're stuck trying to come up with a layout, much less a design.

Of mice and (wo)men

We had an exciting weekend. My wonderful Aunt was kind enough to spend practically all day helping me clean. I am so grateful for the help. I finally felt like we are getting through all the layers of dirt. It's a good feeling.

That good feeling went out the window when I watched a mouse scurry across my dining room floor. I was unpacking the box labeled "booze" at the time. Coincidence? Or Boozy the mouse? You decide.

Kitchen cabinets were ordered today. I'm getting excited. Finally.

Everything including the kitchen sink

It's been fun trying to figure out how to do the dishes (now that I'm actually generating some) without working sink/faucet. We've been going old school with dish basins that we fill from the utility sink because, yes, that IS cleaner than my kitchen sink. Or at least it was. My wonderful hubby decided to tackle that project tonight. And what a difference it made! Next up..... closets!

Before - a pile of rust that used to be in the inside of the faucet

After!  An old faucet that we brought from the old house does the job.

I didn't even realize they still sold dish basins.  Lucky for me they do!

Bathroom demo day 1

Bye-bye gross ugly tiles-falling-off-the-wall canary yellow master bath!!!! Once our contractor pulled off the vanity we discovered that they hacked up the old vanity in order to build it on top of the rise of the stairs, so our redesign options just got really limited. Either that or we have to get super creative!! Alex says he has plan.....

But the best find of the day was the balled up newspaper behind the walls with want ads from 1968 requesting 'male help wanted' or 'female help wanted'. Oh how far we've come.

What did we do?

Today found me scrubbing light switches with a lysol and a toothbrush making me wonder if I really knew what I was getting myself into when we bought this house.  There are layers upon layers of dirt.  I don't even know where to start between the cleaning, the unpacking, setting up the rooms that are livable, and finding a way to live in the ones that aren't....  at least until we remodel them.  We definitely have our work cut out for us.  Stay tuned!