A Day in the Life of....

..... a complete home renovation.

The thing is it's not like we even gutted the place!  I guess if we weren't living in it things might go a little faster?

Somehow I don't think so.

Basically for the last six months my main thought is "There is so much to do, I don't know what to do first."  Oh well, most days we push through and accomplish something, and there have been a couple days where we ate meals, did dishes and played games.  I just dubbed them "mini-vacations". (It's been awhile since we had one of those and I don't see one on the horizon either)

Since I blog so infrequently now....I thought today would be an up-date with pictures of as-we-are-in-this-moment.  I cringe just thinking of making these public. haha. For a person who lives to find a place for everything and make sure everything gets put back in it's place, I'd say I'm doing good at hanging onto any measure of sanity!!

Here goes.....see if you can spot any differences or improvements!!

It was decided to not install the laminate kitchen floor until the new mudroom is added with a place for the washing machine. Rolling the wringer-washer back and forth to the sink would be too hard on it. I have to admit I am going to miss using it as a shelf though!!  :) 

It's wash-day as you can tell. I am also taking advantage of a "kitchen day" (that is what I call days that are too cold to be in the rest of the house) and have started to paint the signs for my day-care business.  It's going to be called "The Teal Kangaroo".

So, many of you admitted to tinges of envy because of my pretty stove. Well, she ain't pretty all the time!! The door is left open unless I am baking to allow more heat to escape. At the moment, two bags of sawdust are thawing near it. The saw-dust is used for our compost toilet. (that will be an up-and-coming-blog......holding off on that one for some reason....don't want you to know the "depths of our craziness" I guess). haha.

The seedling shelf is in from the barn. Got a little excited a little too early.  So I started some house plants instead..... until it's time to get flats of seeds going. The pails are the compost toilets waiting to "be processed" Today isn't only laundry day.....it's also "empty the potties" day. Fun! :P 

Little bits of decor in with "all the rest of the stuff" and dust. Plenty of dust!! 

See the six white and red boxes. Ceramic tiles for the bathroom. 50% off!!

Plastic up between the living and dining room while the ceiling is dry-walled. It's an attempt to contain the dust. But one is never sure it actually makes a difference. :)

This is a thing of beauty. An almost complete ceiling in the dining room. My man's the GUY!! 

The tool table gets tidied once in awhile. But it's not usually evident to the "naked eye".

The living room felt like home....for a bit. Now with all the dining room furniture crammed in and my growing collection of day-care toys.....it's feeling a tad crowded in there at the moment.

Oh, well, it's too cold to be comfortable in there most days, so no worries if it's crowded. It will be all straightened up by the time the weather warms and we can enjoy this lovely room to it's fullest then. I am suggesting a small wood stove go in the corner where the T.V. is. When it's not in use it can double as a T.V. stand and when winter arrives with it's unbearable temperatures the T.V. can move! 

The tub. No shower yet. That's a long and painful story that involved broken plastic pieces, non-returnable item and emailing complaints to the manufacturer.  It has a partial happy ending with the new (and METAL) piece arriving quickly and will be even happier when I buy a shower curtain on our next trip to town! Gone are the days of forgetting to take the deodorant to the off-site shower! 

The other side of the bathroom. Waiting for nicer weather to remove the ancient window, then the wall can be finished too. 

Instead of putting another railing back up. (Have you priced spindles and banister!?!)  I asked for a book shelf instead. :)  I would have it filled with books already, but we need to get a massive Jacuzzi tub down the stairs first, plus it needs a coat of stain and I want to wait until a warm spring day when all the windows can be opened before doing that.

This was a pretty looking reading nook. That's the thing. I have NEVER moved so many items and boxes so many times in my life!!! You pile stuff over here, until that area is "fixed or finished" then you LUG the stuff into the completed area to get it out of the way so you can keep on keeping on to the next thing! 

The upper-hallway floor which is really the size of a small room, had been painted several times and I think they had ended with a latex layer on an oil one. It was chipping and peeling everywhere. What you see here is hours of work scrapping the beige paint off with razor blades. It was the most environmentally friendly way we could do it. Now we are sanding it and then on goes the paint. I am getting tired of painting. But I have a long way ahead that includes many an hour of it just the same!

Here is the guest room! Can you tell? We had joked in a previous blog that we are booking into 2017. Due to unforeseen....hahaha who are we kidding. But yeah, we'll take reservation for 2018 or maybe 2019?....instead.  

This monster has had it's pictures taken for it's debut on Kijiji. Just need to get them up there so people can actually know we have it for sale!! Then down the stairs and outta here it goes!! 

And this here is a blog waiting to happen. 

It's our facilitates.

 Primate yet effective.

 Make your "deposit" and cover it with sawdust. We've asked our guests (in case we had just become accustomed to the smell) and no one (if they are being honest) says they can smell the fact that we have a pail-of-crap in the house. Phew! You had better be telling the truth, guys!! 

So there you have it Ladies and Jellybeans......if you had of arrived here today, unannounced, this is what you would have experienced. We do tidy up a bit when we are expecting company, but don't we all?

Please note - No pictures were edited. I did not use photo-shop. ;) (bet I had ya fooled eh?! wink, wink) 

Raw, living life, photos. 

Just keeping it real, folks!!

Oh, and being that you can't see it in the pictures, you should know, there is dirt on the floors too.

Even though I sweep. 

Every. 

Single. 

Day........and then some. haha.  

Cheers from our messed-up-house to yours!   

Hey, it may not be as bad, but you got a mess somewhere too, admit it. 

And I wouldn't eat off YOUR floors either....even if you paid me. ;)  haha :)