It's been decades since I've blogged.
I went ahead and deleted my old Bloggs and decided to start anew.
This year is a new adventure for us. We decided to sell our Lewisburg home and move to Park Terrace to be closer to our youngest daughter's family.
We bought a fixer upper on January 31st and immediately started to remodeling it. The house was built in 1953 and had been added onto many times. The septic tank and drain field had failed. So we had a new septic tank and drain field put in. The roof needed patching, the ductwork had to be replaced. There was wood rot in various parts of the home that had to be dwelled with. Floors had to be replaced, two bathrooms were gutted and re done. There was asbestos that had to be removed. All the moldings and doors were replaced because of lead paint. Brick was taken off three walls and drywall patching. We replaced two windows and secured a window that wasn't secure. We had a new kitchen island built and new pull out drawers put in the kitchen cabinets. All the drywall was patched and retextured. We had the driveway ripped up and repaired because they were lifted up in various places and was a hazard. We cut down two trees so they wouldn't cause anymore damage to the driveway. We had the front and side yard irrigation lines repaired. Put in new wood floors were there wasn't wood floors and old wood floors repaired and refinished. The fireplace chimney was repaired and cleaned. We put in 8 raised beds and brought in a large garden shed and moved the smaller garden shed to another part of the backyard. We had a greenhouse delivered and put in place. We replaced all the plumbing and wiring and added LED wafer lights where there was no lights in the ceilings and replaced all the ceiling lights with LED wafer lights except in the dining room. We replaced with a new chandelier. In the Primary bedroom we hung two round globe light fixtures and took out the old ceiling fan. We had two split systems in the house one in the family room and one in the Primary bedroom. We had all the interior of the house painted, walls, ceilings, moldings doors and cabinets. A new mantel was built for the living room fireplace. New cabinets built in were built in the hallway. We replace the outside door in the guest room with a new outside door. All new hinges, and door knobs put in. New drapes put in Primary bedroom, dining room, and family room. New area rug put in the guest bedroom. Had the dryer vent directed to the ceiling and new laundry sink in the garage.
As you can see there was a lot that needed to be done before we could move in completely.
While the remodeling was going on we decluttered, and cleaned up Lewisburg to prepare for the sale. We moved our stuff to the warehouse at work and moved to Park Terrace May 24th. We turned the family room into a studio apartment while the rest of the house was being worked on. August 16th we were finally able to move our furniture in.
We started to unpack and go through things deciding what will work and what wouldn't work in our new space.
The stuff that wasn't going to work we donated to the Forbes to do a garage sale. They are earning money for a mission trip next year.
We finally are able to take a vacation in Sisters, Oregon while the kitchen is being painted. When we get home I have the kitchen to put back together and lots of boxes yet to go through.
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