The Study...

The study, which we originally made the dining room was one of the toughest rooms in the house...a whole in the roof had caused a significant amount of damage to the ceiling, outside wall and the floor.   

Jessica, her boyfriend Sam, and Kevin had to pull off the entire roof and replace it.  After the roof was good we had a new window installed and my husband started off with renovating the inside. About a quarter of the ceiling drywall was replaced as was a lot of the wall.  I believe  I posted before when Kevin replaced the floor beams on the floor.  The pictures below are some of the original pictures we got from the inspection and this post concentrates on the inside.  

We decided to move the dining room to the back room, and converted this room into a study/pub.  Its a great place to sit while cooking dinner and to have some quiet time reading.  Since these pictures we have picked up a shelf unit for our books that sites in the corner to the right of the window, and a different armchair.  

We sill have to add the crown molding to this room, and re do the floors, but it is one of my favorite rooms in the house.

An update...which you have all waited far too long for!

A long awaited update....

I feel incredibly bad that I have not posted anything for nine months.  Life has just got so hectic with different things that it has been tough to keep up.

We really have not done much more the house, except the front living room - so here are before....and mid....and after pictures.  Let me know what you all think!

BEFORE - nasty nasty smelly carpet, windows with ivy growing in through them from the outside...broken, rotted window frames...not sure I need to say anymore.

MID - we cleaned up the room, removed the carpet, replaced the windows and painted, just so that it was at least clean.

AFTER - I knew though that I wanted to do more with this room and really wanted to make the fireplace wall a little bit of a feature.

So I got a cool mural to go on the fireplace wall, we re-painted everything and even got a very cool ceiling medallion.  I must say, that it is a very cool room now.  Of course, the floors are still waiting to be done...they will be the last thing today and I can honestly say, I think that it may be this winter that we finally sand, stain and reseal all the floors.

Study Floor...a little accident

...ok it was my fault.  I asked Kevin if we could pull up the piece of plywood that he had put over the hole in the floor in what was then the dining room until we completely refinished the floors.  We thought that the job of replacing the beams under the floor was going to be a huge job, and to be honest there were other things that were a higher priority like a usable kitchen and bathroom.

I wanted him to pull up the piece of plywood as there was an odor in the room that I could not get rid off and I wondered if something had crawled up there somehow and died.

So, Kevin pulled up the piece of plywood...we looked in the hole and couldn't see anything.  I then asked Kevin to open the window to allow the area to get some fresh air....that apparently is where I went wrong.  He stood on the old sub floor which was not up to extra strain...

His leg went through the floor and he ended up standing on the ground under the house...he was fine but we thought we would try to replicate an image from the movie with Tom Hanks in it called "The Money Pit".  This is Kevin doing his best impersonation of Tom Hanks...

This is the whole that he left in the floor when he went through...

and finally we decided that we needed to fix the problematic beams...if you remember from previous posts this was the area where the roof had a hole in and the ceiling was on the floor.

So we have put down another nice piece of plywood...floor sanding and putting down new hardwood here is scheduled for spring :)...ironically fixing the beams only took a days worth of work which was way way less than what we imagined!

Fun (and not so much fun) stuff that happened this summer

Charlie got his dirt bike all finished and was totally proud of it.

Only to have it stolen....wow what a couple of weeks we had after that...chasing down everyone that had seen "Callie" who stole it riding it around town.  We eventually tracked it down to a impound yard in Mendenhall and got it back....missing an ignition, badly painted, and a good amount of damage to the engine and other parts. 

We installed security cameras around the perimeter and inside the house and got two rather noisy alarm systems who are called Bonnie and Clyde.  Bonnie and Clyde are two Labrador mixes that are quite happy to live outside and make noise whenever anyone comes close to the property.

Charlie and Kevin went fishing!

This type of landscape is one of the main reasons I was wanting to move out of the desert of Colorado - just love it here.  These pictures were taken at Simpson County Lake - which is just north of Magee - about 10 miles from home.

Kevin got his tractor!

We met some lovely people called Snow and Sheryl via FaceBook marketplace.  They had advertised a mirror for sale which I went and bought from them.  I love it - goes perfectly in the new dining room.  They also had some lathes for sale, that I knew Kevin would want to add to his arsenal.  So I took Kevin to look at the lathes and we got talking about everything in life it seemed.  Before I knew I was buying an old tractor that they had on their property too :)  

Jeff (my farrier) kindly lent us his trailer to go pick it up.  Jessica and Sam were visiting at the time and we got some great pictures of Jess with Charlie :)

Kevin had some new friends in his shed as well this summer...

Bathroom upgrade

After replacing all the sewerage plumbing we figured we should do the last upgrades to the area behind the bathtub to tiles on the wall and floor and Charlie did an awesome job all by himself.  Gotta say it looks awesome!  We put some hardwood floors down in the bathroom too.   Which wasn't that easy, as there was a beam broken which had to be replaced and the whole sub floor had to be replaced.  These pictures are not in chronologically in order...apologies