The Rehab Weekends 2007

Another year is gone, and I will always look back at 2007 as the year my husband and I dived head first into our "fixer upper" house.

Photos that never made my blog.....


I wanted to have one post that contained all the links to all my REHAB WEEKEND posts in the order in which they start. When I feel like there is still so much to do, it helps to go back and see where I started.

* We Got It! ~ First photos of house right after we closed. 5.17.07
* Rehab Weekend 1 ~ Demolition begins! 5.23.07
* Rehab Weekend 2 ~ Goodbye old Kitchen & Mold! 5.31.07
* Rehab Weekend 3 ~ Red Paint & No Floor. 6.1.07
* Rehab Weekend 4 ~ Trip to IKEA to buy our Kitchen! 6.8.07
* Rehab Weekend 5 ~ Building our IKEA kitchen. 6.19.07
* Rehab Weekend 6 ~ No roof, new pool liner. 6.23.07
* Rehab Weekend 7 & 8 ~ Painting & Flooring. 7.10.07
* Rehab Weekend 9 ~ Kitchen Backsplash Tile. 7.14.07
* Rehab Weekend 10 & 11 ~ Goodbye Floors! 7.21.07
* Rehab Weekend 12 & 13 ~ Landscaping,OSB, & Lighting. 8.4.07
* Rehab Weekend 14 & 15 ~ Drywall,Flooring,& Walls. 8.18.07
* Rehab Weekend 16 ~ Drywall & Painting. 9.1.07
* Moved in to the House ~ 9.24.07
* Rehab Weekends Early October ~ Bedroom Drywall. 10.16.07
* Rehab Weekends End October ~ Drywall Mud. 10.24.07
* Rehab Weekend October end ~ Bedroom Flooring. 10.29.07
* Rehab Weekends Early November ~ Bedroom Painted. 11.6.07
* Master Bathroom Shower Drama ~ Master Bathroom. 11.11.07
* Trim,Stress,& Being Tired ~ Putting up our Trim. 11.21.07

Rehab Weekend #5

June 16 ~ 21

Rehab weekend #5,..was more like Rehab WEEK!!!! We worked all this week to get the kitchen done. We still have more to do,..but we kicked butt!

I had to sign our walls!!!

Will the madness ever end!!! No more cardboard cuts please!!

We were smart, and put the big pantry together in the kitchen,..instead of the living room. Its huge!!!


Even though I hate being short sometimes (4'9") it does work to my advantage while putting IKEA cabinets together. lol




The faucet we picked! Looks cooler in person! Its Chrome,..looks like brushed silver in this photo! The knobs is what I love!!


My husband was very excited when we got the pantry done!!! I think it will be our favorite thing in the kitchen! :)

Here is the first wall, the top cabinets...


My husband spent ALOT of timing leveling everything! Everything was really easy to install!

First wall, bottom cabinets...

FINALLY we have a fridge!!!



The Second wall...


All we have done right now!

Here is a reminder of what it was BEFORE....


We still have alot to do,..and the pictures will only get better! ;) We ordered a really cool tile backsplash today at Lowe's! That was something we just decided to do last minute. Its only money right??? lol

Rehab Weekend #3

June 1 ~ June 3

We gutted the kitchen all the way, got the 2nd dumpster, got rid of the floor in the Master Bedroom, ordered a new pool liner, and I started painting the kitchen RED!



Goodbye Orange walls,...HELLO RED!!! The color looks much better in person. It took 5 coats of paint for that wall!!

Muffins new RED bowls from TARGET! Only 75cents each! Got the rug on clearance at LOWES for $3.00!! Had to have them!!






There in the Dumpster is the Master Bedroom Floor! lol Its hardwood flooring and tile.








My husband and uncle ripped out all the OSB wood that "was" the floor. Now its nothing. It took 2days of hard labor to get it up.











Now you can just look right into the basement,..its kinda weird. In the next week or so the roofer will be putting the new rubber on the roof. So, we will be able to finally drywall and putting new OSB down. :)







This was the highlight of my weekend!! GOODBYE UGLY COUCHS!!! My husband had to cut them with his saw, they were to big to get out the front door, and very heavy. They are now in the dumpster number 2, in many pieces!!! :)


Muffins is wondering when the pool will have water in it!


My husband got off work tomorrow (friday) and Monday, so we have lots of time to work on the house. Off to IKEA this Saturday to drop about $5,000 on our kitchen! lol :) WooHoo!

Rehab weekend #2

Okay, I finally got pictures developed from last weekend.



Here is my dog Muffins, she is thinking, "Why did you buy this place?"




We took down the paneling in the Living Room! There is mold growing in some of the insulation, so that will have to be replaced.


I had to hang my inspiration boards! My paint choices really clash with each other,..but I decided I didn't care about making everything "flow" in the house. I just want to have fun with it.



This weekend is when we decided we wanted an IKEA kitchen, and started to tear the top cabinets of the wall.


You can see what looks like the original wall color! They also painted over wallpaper at some point,..and its making painting for me not very fun.


My Friends and Husband attacked the big bushes that were left in the ground after we cut them back.

Men love using axes for some reason.... lol

I have planted a few things, but don't have pictures yet.



The real MOLD is in the basement.

We ripped out all the basement drywall that had mold on it.

I swear this will look nice someday. This part of the basement is under the Masterbedroom,...so whenever it rains, this is where is all goes and sits. yuck.


Dumpster #1 FULL! We have another one coming tomorrow. (friday)





I will have more photos next week..... thanks for viewing :)

Rehab weekend #1

Wrench from IKEA found in all the mess



So Did you know that Rehabbing a house is alot of work??? lol I know it is now! But I am loving it so far, and LOVE MY NEW HOUSE! I know when its all done, its going to be wonderful. :) Here are some pictures from our first weekend of working on it.


The MasterBedroom, all the stuff they left in it. This is where most of the water damage is. (along with the basement, which still needs cleaned up and out still!)







AFTER We gutted the room! (I took this from standing in the garage)

GOODBYE ugly MasterBathroom! My husband enjoyed destroying this room! He has a mask on because MOLD makes him very sick.




Here I am attempting to clean the mess up.



Here is all the last homes owners stuff,...just from the garage. Gee, thanks. I hate them.

WE GOT IT!!!!!!

Here is PART of all the crap they left for us. (we hate them)





Let the fun begin,...friday we get a dumpster. We did rip out bushes today! :)

BEFORE




AFTER



The caption for this picture is "What there is a window there???"