Plugging Along

HGTV has taught me that even the most difficult of remodels should take no more than an hour or so. I keep having to explain to myself that life is not as easy as television can make it seem, and every once in a while I actually take my own words to heart. Today is one of those days, a day where I needed to remind myself that we have a timeline and hopefully we will have our house ready by the day we need to move in. 

James and I are incredibly fortunate that we have been given a place to live for free this summer. My parents live next door to a wonderful family that travels for a few months each year, and need somebody to housesit for them while they are away. We did not even need to think about it, the chance to no longer have to pay rent+mortgage was too great an opportunity, and we readily accepted the offer. This does, however, give us a more concrete timeline to have our house ready for us to move in. This timeline has put a fire under our project, and we plan to move in mid-August, when we will get kicked out of our friend's home.

James has been very wonderful in his demolition, and our first workers are planning on coming over this week to begin framing out our new spaces. These workers are men that James spent a summer with during his college years, and James has been extra careful to leave each space clean which is something that they taught him when he worked with them. We even went over the other night to sweep up a large mess because we weren't sure if they planned on coming today or not (we still don't know, but no worries there.)

There's still a lot of work to do, and our next four months are going to be crazy, but at least we know now that it will only be four months before we live there!