Happy Holidays! Christmas is my favorite holiday to decorate for and it just wasn’t the same this year. Especially, since none of our Christmas trees made it off the truck to our temporary housing. Well, you didn’t have to twist my arm to buy a new tree. I’ve always wanted a slim 9 ft tree and we must have a tree. So, I did what every good mom would do… I bought a new tree 😂! Don’t worry Jason, I’ll find a new place for it in our fixer upper next Christmas.
Right Photo: Christmas Eve Dinner at Mr. Benny’s
It’s been some time since I have made a post and I thought I would fill you all in with what has been happening at our fixer upper during the holiday season.
Bathroom Tile: Two of the bathrooms are tiled and they look amazing!!! Grout still needs to be put in but both, but so far I’m loving the progress.
Wood Floor Repairs: The flooring sub-contractor has just started repairing, sanding and refinishing (1st coat) to our parquet floors. Repairing, sanding and staining parquet floors is a different technique than normal plank wood floors (from what I read on Pinterest 😂). This was a concern of mine from the beginning. I didn’t want some idiot to just come in with a normal straight sander and destroy the floors. When we met with the flooring sub-contractor for the first time, I started asking questions on his technique. He either read the same article on Pinterest that I did or he knew exactly what to do. He reassured us by letting us know that he started his craft in Europe where everyone has either parquet or herringbone wood floors. So far, it seems that they know what they are doing. Besides sanding the floors, they’ve had to add squares of parquet flooring in areas where they were messed up or missing. Plus, add a wood filler to spaces throughout. Once everything is sanded you will never know the difference.
We also picked out new wood floors, 5 inch white oak planks, for the kitchen area. Prior to demolition, the kitchen was half tiled and the other half was a different wood floor other than the parquet flooring that is currently throughout the other parts of the house. We took out all of the old flooring in this area and wanted to start new. As for the staining color, we will be staining all the floors with the same color. Most likely a darker brown shade that will hide any leftover imperfections from the 70 year old parquet floors.
Mudroom/Pantry: Good bye old rotted out sun-room and hello to the start of our future mudroom and spill over pantry. A mudroom is just as much of a necessity to our family as our bedrooms are. The current sun-room placement was the easiest and best option to convert for this. The current 12 x 12 room that is directly off from the kitchen, will be getting divided into two sections. 1) a closet and 2) a place for my kids to hang their numerous bags, coats, shoes and miscellaneous crap. This room will also be next to our garage and will have an outdoor entrance.
Bottom Photo: A new starting point.
Progress is moving along!
Love ya! Lisa
Our Fixer Upper 