Greetings!

For friends and family, this is a site to see what we've gotten ourselves into and how we're doing. For people who care about Big Red, it's a chance to keep posted about what we're doing to preserve and restore her. It's also a place for people who love old houses and appreciate what they mean as much as we do. We hope you'll be pleased with the results.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Lipstick on a 118 year old pig

Not all of our renovations are "long term". In some cases, we just need to get some areas of the house ready to use...with long term plans to overhaul/renovate.
One area is the full bathroom upstairs. Avacado green bathtub and sink are on a short list of key items to ditch sometime next year. In the meantime, we've just been trying to make it more friendly...we added a wall mirror over the sink and have put some temporary flooring in over the beat up linoleum tiles.
We finally got the back room loaded with our dressers and storage racks for clothes. We decided to keep dressers out of the Master Bedroom and create a "dressing room/closet" room in the back. I'll try to post some pictures tonight.
We're trying to balance our desire to keep moving forward on the house with our desire to actually do some living in it. I'm trying to get a little something done every day, without treating every day like it's a second job.
Halloween is coming up, and we always have a halloween party...so at some point I'll be moving from renovation to haunt-o-vation. The decorations will come out of the attic sometime this weekend.

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