It has been almost a year since I last posted on my blog. I got a laptop so maybe I can do it more often now.
The girls had fun at christmas making a snowman at Grandma and Grandpa Schultz's house in the "Desert". 
We have been working every free minute to fix our house. Back in November we had a water leak under our house. The insurance paid a company to come in and further destroy it! They ripped out all the wood floors, made big holes in the walls to re-route pipes and pulled up some carpet that got wet. They put us up in a hotel for a few days while they did the work and got it dried out. When we came back our house was pretty much a huge mess. Every room on the main floor was effected.
We received a check from the insurance company to put it back together. We decided that if I do a "little" of the work myself we could use some of the money to do some upgrades. Well one thing lead to another and we have been working non stop for 3 months.
The good news is we are about done! We started with tiling the floors(over 700 sq feet). It was my great idea to use a different color tile for the boarder(this makes the job harder). It was Linda who wanted the tile set on an angle and a very small grout line(even harder). This took the most time of all the jobs I did. We are happy with the final outcome.
Not too bad is it?
We did many more "projects" in putting our house back together. We patched dry wall and re-textured them, re-did two bathrooms, built a fire place, replaced all the doors in the house with 6 panel doors, put new base boards in the whole downstairs, new chair railing in the family room and then had the complete downstairs painted.
Here are some of the finished product:
The new fireplace.
Another one.
the kids bathroom.
the guest bathroom.
I could write much more but I am sooooo tired. Until next post...it could be a year...take care.
3 comments:
Uncle Mark! The house looks so awesome! You rock! So, when are you available to come to Seattle to work on my house? You did such a great job. When we come down in June, we'll stop by to see it in person.
Oh and nice to have you back in the blogging world. I had just about given up on you!
HOLY CRAP WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY HOUSE??? It's not home anymore :(
No, although this was not my first thought, it did come. However, my first thought was, "OH MY FREAKING GOSH WOW!!!!!" It looks amazing and I am just in shock!! You need to post some before pictures so people can really appreciate it! I went to show my roommate and although she thought it was gorgeous, she didn't know how drastic the change was. Holy crap!! Awesome job Dad! POST MORE OFTEN! Just because you have a laptop isn't going to change how often you post ahha. You just have to make the effort!!!! Thanks for the pictures, love you guys!!
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