Thankfulness - Renovation, part 2

Today, on our drive home from our Thanksgiving get-away at Andrew's house, Paige asked us all to say what we are thankful for this year. Dave said, "I am thankful that you girls have been so well-behaved and easy-going, even though our living situation has been challenging over the last few months." There was a short period of uncomfortable silence, followed by Rylie saying, "are you being sarcastic right now?"

Wall asbestos removal is finally finished, and the house looks really strange with the walls down. We thought the asbestos people seemed a little too bored, so we invited them back to take up the asbestos flooring in the kitchen, which was under the hardwoods. Our builder was impressed that we had it in both the linoleum AND the floor tiles that were hiding under there all those years.

The excavator should begin today, and, pending any weather delays, the foundation for the addition should be poured next week (while the second round of asbestos remediation is taking place inside).

Renovation, part 1

The year of 2017 has been all about changes. We sold our Ashburn house back in June, and bought the place I have always thought of as "home." This meant that the Heironimus family had to clean out 40 years worth of stuff that accumulated in the house, and, if Dave is asking, only "a little" is currently boxed up in the basement waiting to be unpacked (he's going to be really excited about the Smurf glassware set from the Mobil gas stations of 1980).

Since only moving isn't quite crazy enough, we also decided to tackle a renovation/addition project on the house.

Here are the plans for the project:

This is the current house, the dotted lines are walls that will be moved/removed.

Here's what it will look like after the work is completed.

Of course, no project is ever complete without a few "tiny hiccups," so here is the current status of the project:

Hopefully we'll be back on track, starting next week, and it'll be smooth sailing to our end of February completion date!