The Never Ending Story (a.k.a. details of our home renovations)

I'm only partially kidding (and giving Mike a hard time) by the title of this post. The renovations have been taking a while, but we did decide to take on quite a bit of work and we both work full time (and then some). Also, now that the renovations have a looming deadline (~5 mos.) it also makes it seem like it will never get done in time! With my work schedule I'm very little help with things. I'm also getting bigger...here I am at 16 weeks.

So the list of things that we are currently working on includes, but is not limited to: tiling the kitchen backsplash, choosing paint for the kitchen cabinets and baby's room, repairing water damage from a leaking chimney (covering hole in wall), "moving" a staircase to a different side of the wall (or moving a wall, either way, putting up a new wall and staircase). Mike made a video diary of the initial wall removal, but we don't have any pictures. We do however have pictures of the new staircase going up (with some lovely shots of our friend Ryan who has been helping with construction).

Mike and Ryan realized that they wouldn't just be putting the wall up on the other side of the staircase, but that they would have to remove and reconstruct the staircase entirely due to some sketchy construction. so here are the new stringers going up.

And currently, here is what we're looking at:


We had big plans early on and definitely had to change some plans due to schematics of the rooms. But currently Mike is in the process of finishing the dry wall and all we need are the treads and risers for the stairs and we'll be all set! All of this is definitely easier said than done. We welcome any visitors who might be interested in volunteering some elbow grease (i.e. future Grandparents of new Nashville Baby)!