Final Details - 2

We began this journey seven years ago. Our house had great bones but everything in it was worn out and shabby. We wanted to clean it all up and create something of our own. We wanted to do the work our selves. This blog has allowed us to realize everything that has entailed. It is full of plans, lists, decisions, tasks, and WORK. The project morphed along the way. We did not do it fast, but then it never was as much about the goal as it was about the journey. But now that we have reached our goal we are very happy! All along we kept a task list. It proved to be very clunky, with some tasks taking an hour (install heat register) and some tasks taking days and days (repair cracks in plaster).

We still need to repair the wood trim on the interior stairway where the floor re-finisher scuffed it up, and there is one item left to check off on our original task list, to finish moving all of our stuff back in that has been in storage for seven years. But, those things will not happen until after we return from our cruise. We feel the project is complete and it is time for some R&R!

Here is a photo of the next-to-the-last item on the check list; "install fireplace doors."

Of course we have begun a new list. Don has decided to build some furniture for the living room and dining room, and we want to finish fixing up the basement. But that is for another blog and another list. We have truly reached the end of this one. And we did indeed manage to fix up our old house, stay sane, stay together, and not go broke.