Monday, February 20, 2012

time to destroy!

I can almost tell Frederick is a bird. :-) Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have at least his outline in place. I'm finally feeling better - on Friday I got out of bed and knew I was going to live. I ended up being sick for more than two weeks. Isabelle is very happy because that means her trips to the dog park are happening again with some frequency. The pugs are sad because now they can't lay all over me all day long.

I'm finally in a position to start work on my bedroom! Below is the first picture of the fruits of my labor. It took the entire weekend to sort, toss and move around to other parts of my house / garage everything that landed in the bedroom since I moved in last September. I should have taken a before photo. The floor was so full I had a path to get around. I'll start the "official" demo on the 3rd of March when I have help but I'll start doing some little stuff before then - like taking apart the closet and starting demo on the bathroom. The goal is to have me sleeping in the room by the end of April. Very doable if I don't find a ton wrong with the walls once they are taken down. Cross your fingers for me that this will be fairly simple. I know I have a bit of a leak on the roof in a corner - hopefully it will be an easy fix. And I can't replace the windows yet because I want to do the entire house at the same time I replace the siding and that can't happen until I can get a home equity loan. Maybe this year, maybe next year. :-)


7 comments:

Linda said...

Frederick is looking great. I think I will start him soon. Good luck with the bedroom.

Linda

krayolakris said...

I'm so impressed with your mad construction skills!!

marly said...

Fred is looking good. And soon, so will the bedroom! Good luck - hope it all goes well and we get to see snaps.

CJ in OK ;-) said...

I am can see the edge of Frederick, so colorful I love it. It make me want to start this one now. Good luck with the room reno. CJ in OK ;-)

Susan said...

Glad you are feeling better. Good luck with the demo and rebuild. I'm sure it will look great when finished. Frederick is really coming along. I do like the colors in this pair.

Karoline said...

Glad to hear you're feeling better & good luck with the bedroom.

Frederick is looking lovely.

Jeanne said...

Great progress Margie - with the stitching and also the house! I just talked to a coworker who was sick for 2 weeks with respiratory flu and she said it's just about as sick as she's ever been. Hope you are feeling a lot better now.