A photo list of things that I hope will be gone soon

Or that will be replaced, I guess.

1. All That Friggin' Asbestos tile

Hellooooo cancer!

This is scheduled to be removed on the 29th.


2. The Leaky Poop Pipe

Gross...

^ also 3. The Rusted Out Oil Tank (scheduled for August 1st)


 4. The Fail Toilet

Let's just say it can barely flush toilet paper

(Scheduled for the weekend of the 9th-11th)


5. The Horror-Movie Florescent Lights

Also probably the mirror and the soap/toothbrush tiles

6. Le Ugly Chain Link Fence

I promise there is more grass there now...

Seriously, if you're in the market for a chain link fence, come dig mine up!

sorta update-ish thing

Adamo is on vacation so we haven't been getting much done. Last week I leveled all the areas where we had ripped up the top layer of the plywood (basically all around the edges). I had no clue what I was doing—just watched a couple of youtube videos and gave it a whirl. I've also been packing like crazy.

We'll probably be laying the kitchen floor next week. Lowe's has the tiles we want, and we've calculated how much to get.

No progress pictures, so here is a pic of the hydrangea near the porch:

:)

Megan out!

First day of work... all my things hurt

Yesterday we ripped out the vinyl sheet flooring in the kitchen. It sounds so easy when I say it like that, but it was SO much more difficult than I realized, and we had it easy!!

First, we had to remove the baseboards. That was a little tough because there was like nine thousand layers of paint on them. Also, since this house is apparently spider utopia, I had to kill about 30 spiders along the baseboards. (Apologies to all arachnid enthusiasts; I love insects but just cannot abide spiders.) I think more came out after I started to see what was going on. The people who installed the baseboards were apparently a little nervous about them staying... they used one boatload of 4-inch casing nails along with a bunch of screws drilled in at random.
  

You can see two of the screw holes here

 I only broke two baseboards, and they were just little ones so I feel like that's ok? Since the nails were super long, it was a total bitch getting them all out, especially since we have pretty pitiful apartment hammers.
  

breathe... push!

After that, we started working from The Hole to the corner behind the fridge. There was a weird bendy pipe possibly a gas line thing in that corner so we thought we get the difficult part out of the way. Hahahahahahaha no.
  

Any tips on wtf that is?

It took us like a half hour to get up this corner, even though it was only glued around the edges. Unfortunately, ripping up the floor also tore the crap out of the plywood underlayment. Also, apparently the original floor installers liked to use glitter as a marker, but it is way more fun to imagine that they just used glitter glue to attach the flooring.
 

Or the floor was installed by David Bowie

At that point, Adamo's mom, uncle, and brother showed up like a band of angel assistants with a puppy imp because they are the best. My mom wanted me to save some linoleum for her cabins in the white mountains, so I cut out the middle of the flooring.

  

I felt a lot more accomplished after that!

We started working around the edges, slowly ripping them (and bits of plywood D:) up. Eventually we realized that we were going to have to remove the rubber baseboards on the cabinets, the trash compactor, and the freaking stove. Thank goodness that Adamo's uncle was there because I probably would have tried doing it myself with phone guidance from my dad and likely blown up the whole house.
 

It was NASTY next to and behind the stove. I think I am still covered in grease. 

After much elbow grease and sweating, we finally pulled up all of the flooring. Then it was even more apparent that I hadn't planned ahead—we didn't have some crucials like heavy duty trash bags, a broom, trash bin, etc. :-[

So we stuffed all the gluey vinyl in the pantry.
 

(–_— ;)

Also, while we were doing this Adamo's uncle and brother carried the washer and dryer we bought in from the garage and set it up on some pallets we found. They are amazing!!!
 

Now the lonely toilet isn't lonely anymore!

Megan out!

Lakewood Manor - Quick Stats

As a detail oriented person, I spent most of my home search time looking at the stats of houses +Megan or our realtor would send us. How many square feet? How many rooms? What year was it built? And with those, it was easy to rule out homes that didn't quite meet our minimum requirements.

To further intro our place, here are some quick stats and facts I wanted to share!

1. House Type: American Foursquare
   
   
   Photo courtesy of timrodpark.com
2. Year Built: 1934
3. Land: .52 acres - long and skinny
4. Living Area: 1,700 sqft. (not including basement or walkup attic)
5. Rooms: 8
6. Hallways: Zero
7. Bathrooms: 1.1 (the 0.1 is for the free-standing toilet in the corner of the basement)
8. Built-ins: A bunch
9. Proximity to IKEA: 15 minutes
10. Proximity to both Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks: 3 minutes
11. Basement: Full w/walkout (poured concrete, not fieldstone). Creepy factor: 3/10
12. # of spiders in basement: spidertopia

We own a MFing house!

Well, it's official! The house we've been affectionately calling "Lakewood Manor" is ours as of today (a day later than anticipated due to unforeseen issues)! We can now enter our home as we please to tear down walls or whatever.

First thing we did was bring over a few necessities; soap, towel, paper towels, some cleaning supplies, cups, and two tape measures. After prancing around a bit, we measured almost every room in the house, and now I am using the Jordan's Furniture room planner to figure out where to put all of our crap!

:D