One of the reasons why we had to look at this house twice before I agreed to sign my name on the dotted line is there was a ton of deferred maintenance that needed to be done. You know how the saying goes, ” You can’t see the forest for the trees?” Well I felt like I couldn’t see the house for the same reason. My initial impression of the house was the front yard landscape was going to take a ton of money so my mind kind of shut off at that point.
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Last week defies explanation and was full of challenges and I just couldn’t get in a space to come here and post anything. If y’all have been around here long enough you know your homie is only down for so long then its time to get back in the swing of things.
We’ll start with the fact that I lost every. single. solitary. photo and document I own when my son dropped my external hard drive. Please spare me the tongue lashing because I knew better and only had a few things backed up. I literally was going through anxiety symptoms until I was able to find a company that will be able to get my data back. Now I just need to find $1300 to get it done. I know, just, please don’t say anything. If you want to help please donate, based on my pageviews if everyone donated……Nevermind. It will likely be after Christmas before I am able to cough up that money but it makes me feel better that I will be able to get them back…..I tell ya, that is an expensive lesson to learn. Take it from me BACK THAT THANG UP. Not the Juvenile type but every form of storage that you have please take a moment this week to back your stuff up to a cloud or something.
I don’t have the money to spare right now for my data because my husband kind of made an executive decision to move forward with a master bathroom renovation. I thought we discussed waiting awhile but then I look up and my shower is being removed. I’m not complaining but you have to mentally prepare yourself for these things. Not to mention we are also getting the front yard done so there is a lot going on.
The previous owners left the bathroom disgusting. They only lived here 2 years and I am coming to learn that they kept maintenance to a minimum. I’m pretty sure they didn’t buy this house in this condition based on what the neighbors tell me…I digress. So we had opened a keepsafe storage perth unit and move all our bathroom contents and began the job!
Anyway. The bathroom shower was so nasty my husband and I refused to bathe in it. We use the bathroom in the hall, so his decision was not an unnecessary one. This is our first rodeo with any type of renovation project so I was expecting all h*ll to break loose when they opened up the wall based on my experience with HGTV…I was right. The back wall had all kinds of ants..dead and alive and eggs *skin crawls* attached to the insulation. We removed all of that. I couldn’t get a picture…you’re welcome. But if you look at the floor of the shower that will give you an idea of how nasty and moldy the grout was and there were cracks in the grout so water had seeped down and rotted some of the wood underneath. At this stage we were wondering whether we should just phone up a company like Glass Shower Direct so that we wouldn’t have to worry about all of this! However, the money for that is rather hard to find at the moment, therefore we continued.
In this case they didn’t bring the moisture barrier all the way over to cover the wood so it molded as well and had to be replaced.
Because this house was built in the early 90’s there really was no separation of tile and shower so a new shower meant all new tile, thus the entire renovation of the bathroom and the floor.
That open door with all of the stuff on the floor? Our closet that needs to be redone. That is next on the list.
This work was done last week. I’ll update you next week on the progress made this week.
Have you ever gone through a major renovation? Got any tips for me as I start shopping for tile and materials?
As much as I share over here, when I have moments of non sharing I feel like I’ve completely fallen off the wagon and you guys are all like where is Mimi and what is she doing…although I know you aren’t..
I’ve been kind of quiet, just processing some things and contemplating on some next steps career, blog and entrepreneurial wise. I just had to let it go the other day and remember that all things work out how and when they are supposed to. I’ll just keep repeating that to myself.
Really nothing newsworthy has been going on around here. I finally feel settled into the house and there are boxes still laying around. Oh well. I suppose we should just move them into the basement with all of the others and hope one day they will get unpacked…or not. As long as they are gone by Thanksgiving. We are hosting this year. Oh, and those curtains? Not mine.
For me, decorating a home has always been more than just furniture, fabrics, frames and decor items. Nothing thrills the senses more than walking into a home that smells good. I mean nothing. As I continue working toward making this house a home I was thrilled at the opportunity to work with Renuzit. I was sent a goodie box full of Renuzit’s redesigned cone air fresheners and they are super sleek and modern.
