Phase 1

One day this will be the laundry room.

we decided that shower was less important than having clean clothes so we decided that this nasty stand up shower needed to go in order to make room for a laundry room. we are still not sure where they did laundry before, maybe a bucket out on the back patio, who knows. 

from the looks of things i thought this was a relatively new shower, after all there was an attempt to flip this house, but to my surprise it was not a beautiful one piece shower this was a mess. tile was underneath the vinyl and it was attached with some really nasty, gooey black gunk. 

now there is no more shower...

so if anyone out there has the need to do some plumbing i would recommend doing like this... small jobs only. I used PEX with shark bite fittings. it eliminates the need to soldier and glue anything... all you do is press the pieces together and like magic it doesn't leak. we are further along with it now but still not done... ONE DAY!! 

The front

LeFRONT O' HOUSE

so the front of our house looks something like this... okay it is this. we have not done a whole lot to improve the front of our house so as they would say on those cheesy house shows- "It lacks curb appeal". what they don't see is all the wonderful things we have planned. the siding needs to be replaced, a yard would help (not pictured but it is very similar to the back, dirt), and yes a new garage door. i got bored one night and i did take out the ugly bush hiding the corner, looks really good now!! Randi was shocked when she saw what i had done.

What's behind door number 1...

treasure? dead old lady? monsters?

My guess was the remains of an old lady. Don't ask!

They ruined a perfectly good closet with the HVAC system. So now we will have to create a closet for this bedroom. In Connecticut you can't call it a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet.

Living Room

So this is my plan: I want to remove the old wood floors you see here and and put them in the sun room and paint them white. Then I want to  lay new wood floors through out the house. We are hoping to do this in the winter. Can't wait!

Round Dining Room

Dining Room from exterior

Dining Room from the interior

Once we saw this room we had to have the house!

Now that we have the house we need a round table that fits in the room. So far we have a few choices, none of which I want to pay for.
Here are a couple of our options

Platner Dining Table


Saarinen Dining Table

The Smelly Basement

This is the piano board that we have no clue what to do with or how much it might be worth. My guess it's worth nothing.

This is the boiler that used to heat the water and maybe the house at one time. Notice the nice modern day water heater in the background.

This is what makes the basement smelly.

An old oil tank which still has tons of oil in it. I like to say this is our savings for a rainy day.

Saved the best for last!

On one whole side of the basement there are these old beer bottle labels.

The Sun Room

Sun room(this is where we watch TV/Movies)

The House

This is the back of the house.



Believe it or not we bagged 56 bags of leafs just for the back yard alone. The front yard was something like 16 bags.



Back yard from the deck.