Thursday, March 04, 2010
We have wanted to do some major remodeling of our main floor since we bought this house (almost 2 years ago!) After having several contractors in and having issues just getting quotes (or ridiculously high quotes), we finally got one in.
The first thing done is removing a dated and awkward gas fire place in-between our living a dining room. This picture is the only one I have that actually shows a bit of the fire place. It's when we were looking at the house and has the previous owners' furniture. Maybe the lack of pictures show how much I hated that thing.
So first step this week was the old fire place was removed. You can see the 2 types of flooring that we have on this floor. We will be getting hardwood floors to replace the carpet and the current hardwood floors in 2 weeks.
The new fireplace is framed out and just needs stone and a mantle. I changed my mind on the height, so next week the frame will be raised to the ceiling. It's our long wall in the living room instead of splitting up 2 rooms.
We will be replacing the sliding doors with french doors. Hopefully they will be installed next week. They need to be installed before the flooring can be done. My biggest hope is that all of this work will get done before our little frog shows up. It's still 5 weeks until my due date, so cross your fingers for an on time baby.
I'm sewing cushions for a built in bench on our patio and had a little help. I guess all that fabric looked a bit like her bed.
