The Nest

Six months later...

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:15 PM

Soo, it's been quite awhile since I posted anything....August, I think was the last one?  Since then we have been furiously working on our house and making it our own.  We just completed our master bedroom this week, and this was the room we practically gutted on the day of closing (Aug 14th)!  Our living room is also completed except for painting the stairway, and turned out really nice if I do say so myself .  Everything has taken probably three times longer than we thought it would, and probably was three times more expensive, but it was all worth it, just to see my husband with power tools in his hands, and actually being able to use them (yeah, no prior DIY skills)!

Of course we do have a lemon...the freaking oil furnace, which has tried to burn our house down three times now....WTF?? So, so much for a tax refund this year, because it's all going to a new comfort system (hybrid too so we don't have to deal with the assholes oil company as much...score!). 

Next on our ever increasing list of things to do is the kitchen/dining room.  Our kitchen cabinets look like something out of a 70's sitcom, with a marbled Formica counter to match.  How stylish!  Well, they make the room super dark, and with only one window at the opposite end of the room, I have to turn the lights on even during the day.  So the hope is to paint them white to help brighten the room and bring them up to date, change countertops, etc.  Maybe we'll have this project done before Christmas