INTERMISSION!!!!!

i've been gone from the blog for a long time. who knows, maybe you've forgotton about us! thats okay...we've been busy with life in general.
eventually two things had to happen. our funds dissipated. nick had to get a job. i had to (wait, had to??...wanted to!!!) go back to making pottery full time again.
"what?" you say "you started a home renovation that went over budget before you were done? no way...that never happens!!!" ha... SIKE! i've never known it NOT to happen. if you have been fortunate enough to keep your reno under budget, YOU start a blog and honey, i will read it! help us all! hehe!
a full and massive renovation like we have undertaken is, as you know or have heard, very stressful. we have taken the last several months away from it. it was necessary....holy MENTAL BREAK! pshew!
we've worked hard on our days off to make the yard awesome and plant a pretty great garden considering our small yard and lack of  sunlight. also, we 're been trying to maintain our acreage out in haywood county. oh, and have some fun!!! we've enjoyed living our life back in crazy little downtown asheville.
nick has been working two jobs and i make pottery, six and often seven days per week in the summer. but now, the weather is cooling. the fall seeds are mostly in the garden and its time to nest into our home for the winter. we are starting up the renovation, slowly.
i will not be writing on the blog near as often, as i had done previously because our home renovation will never be our full time jobs again. we were lucky to have that experience, but (sigh) it is over. boooooooo on real life! oh well...i'm still grateful for this entire experience and i am happy to share our adventures with you! stay tuned...
wishing you well!
trista and nick and our family of fur balls!

the laundry room: new doors!

october
this picture is a reminder of the first time we saw the laundry room. a lot has happened since then, especially in the last couple of weeks. we have moved the laundry room and are turning this room into an extension of the kitchen slash mudroom.

wednesday: the before

wednesday: the after!!!

 this week we put the new french doors in the former laundry room.

we found these at the Habitat ReStore. we were concerned they might be a little too big for the room....

but no regrets! they look great!

standing in the kitchen looking towards the back yard

putting up new siding

the far away shot (and our lovely and peaceful backyard oasis)

(me in my cru coffee and wine bar hoodie: a little beaufort coffee shop love!)

i do a little work from time to time...

i was standing in the kitchen when i shot this.

and we are done for the night!

its a bedroom!

nick finished the wall!

take a look...

new paint!

new floor!

new wall!

dining room: the progression

this weekend, we finally and somewhat officially, reclaimed another room in our home - the dining room. for now, it will serve as our living room. but i wanted to remind you of the phases of this project.

these pictures are from the first day in our new house waaaaaaay back in october!

and then there was this part: the demolition back in november

 there was the demolished

the rebuild!

painting!

making it a home!!!

we still have to hang the trim, but for right now, that can wait!

the laundry is now the laundry room, and the den is the den. yay!

fireplace

new french doors

windows

new master underway

floor is down

wall is halfway built

just another view...

it looks awesome! i am so excited!

master bedroom

picture it:

the floors

kona brown to match the new dining room

dirty new floors

(they will be a a little different than these original floors because we are reusing some leftover flooring from a different house. but they will be stained the same color).

this is what our 

head board wall 

will look like....

and THIS is the new wall color...

add dark brown floors, white curtains, maybe a rust colored bed spread...

the bathroom will not stay pepto pink, i promise!

HOLY BRIGHT WALLS!

so these pictures don't do it justice...but i think its going to be awesome, when its all done....

(at least i hope, because we ARE NOT painting this room again!)

today, we will be laying the floors in the master. and maybe start building the accent wall.

the front moves forward!

as of last week, our house was looking a lot like this:

minus the scaffolding, that would've been such a luxury!!!

notice the window up top: 

no trim. tyvek and paper flying everywhere. flashing. unfinished cedar shake...

at the beginning of the week, our house looked like this:

oh la la!!!

 window trim, cedar shake starting to get in place, tyvek and flashing disappearing!

lookin good!

as of last night, our house looks like this:

picture taken this morning

all done! 

my dear sweet hubby who is terribly afraid of heights, stood on the ladder for three days and did this pretty much all by himself. up and down. up and down. 

climb up, attach paper (no easy task with only two hands), cut paper to size, climb down, find shingle, measure width, climb back up measure cut of shingle, climb back down, cut shingle, climb back up, attach shingle, climb back down find new shingle,  .......etc. so slow!

99% all by him self.

 the other 1% was yesterday, while nick's parents helped for a bit and i helped for a bit. but essentially, all we did was find the right size shingle to go up next, and tell him the width, so he could measure the cut, climb down the ladder, cut the shingle. climb back up and attach it. 

are you still reading???

 i don't know why, because i just confused myself typing all that!

HA!

ITS BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 

thanks hubby!

painting the bedroom

inspired by this picture from pinterest

and this one from google (sorry i forgot where)

we are going to use some of the old boards from the roof and imitate these pictures.

this will cover our hole in the wall in the bedroom, and be a fairly easy way to address the challenge.

we chose this color to paint the other walls.

we don't like it.

its pretty, but way too blue. and  kind of boring.

who wants BORING? right?

to give my hubby a little shout out:

in 24 hours, nick ripped up the old floor in the new bedroom (to be reused to patch the floor in the living room and foyer), built the new wall, leveled the floor, and primed and painted the walls in the new bedroom.

holy wow-zers!!!!!!!