Home Renos - Air Ducts, Outlets, Insulation - oh my!

Day 9

They took off the porch overhang. The cool thing is that part of the overhang had been damaged in a wind storm several months ago and we hadn't been able to fix it and now we don't have to!

Day 10

Lots of people were in and out of our house all day, including the electrician. He asked me where I wanted electrical outlets and phone jacks in our new rooms (not the easiest thing to decide when all the walls aren't up and there is no furniture). But we are all wired! It is weird to have so many strangers moving through your house, I can't even say that I met everyone so it is entirely possible that some random person just decided to come in and take a look around. Ha ha! I have also been spending a great deal of time trying to stay out of everyone's way.

This is the view from my future bedroom.

This is the framing for my future walk in closet (picture me smiling).

In the afternoon, Theo put on his little home depot pretend hard hat, grabbed his tools and asked me if he could go outside and help the workers because there was "a lot of work to do". He looked so cute and he wanted to be outside with them so badly, so I went and asked the guys if that would be okay. We are lucky because the guys who are working on our house are super nice and really great with the boys. They immediately said 'sure' and so Theo went outside to 'supervise'.

Theo with his home depot tools and hard hat

My little supervisor

At the end of Day 10 we had a new porch overhang! I am amazed at how different the outside of our house looks already.

Day 11

The worst part about the home renovations has been how cold it is in our house right now. Our poor little furnace has been working overtime and I'm a little scared to see what our heating bill will be like for this month. Needless to say I was happy to see them putting in the air ducts, though unfortunately they are not attached to the furnace yet.

This was also the day that they took out our bathroom window and bordered it up.

The next day, we had a delivery of roof shingles, which meant another large cool vehicle in our driveway. (My boys are digging all this construction stuff)

Day 12

Another large vehicle, this time delivering insulation. At the end of this day, our walls are a lovely pink candy floss and our garage looks like something out of an alien movie.

And our roof has a lovely black 'coat' on it to protect it from the rain. Yes, I did say rain (and to think it is the middle of December!) - it rained all Wednesday night and into Thursday. It was truly miserable weather! Of course that did not stop another large vehicle from coming and delivering the dry wall.

Even though the rain delayed the roofers from coming on Thursday, I did have visitors - two different inspectors showed up to check the electrical wiring that was done and the insulation. Which of course both passed.

Day 13

The workers were back to put up the drywall. Now the rooms are really starting to take shape...especially my closet! Now along with the cold I also have to deal with the incredible amount of dust and dirt that is accumulating very quickly in my house!

Our master bedroom

My office

I can't really complain too much though, our builder has been absolutely amazing so far! He even showed up one day with a Christmas gift for us (awhhh).