Muses

Our Hillary confers with Desta moment.

“Remodeling is one of the top three stressors you can live through in a year.”

A friend mentioned that on a run this morning.  All I keep thinking is I’m living out an episode of HGTV’s Love It or List It.  I’ve watched every show and there always comes a moment when the interior designer Hillary Farr and construction crew discovers some hidden budget busting catastrophe with the homeowners’ house.

The homeowners on the show wanted a new kitchen, two new baths, office and built out basement. But because the roof is shot and the water leaches into the basement after all the dire repair work, what’s left of the family’s budget overs the cost of a new toilet.

Our project — our quest — for a new kitchen, bath, laundry area and TV room started with us cleaning out the space.  That was a chore.

Took this photo before we left on vacation.

 

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And we came home to this.

 

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Look at this funky wallpaper that papered the plaster walls that were layered under plaster walls. Confusing?

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But still no Hillary looking at her blonde able assistant Desta and saying, “These people are fill in the blank with the expletive of your choice.”

Until we started seeing rot.

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And for reasons too numerous to address in a 500 word blog post, this was what the green room looked like a few days ago.

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Looking back into what was our kitchen.

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So if that wasn’t enough the next day, I asked Steven — our contractor — if there was any bad news today. Ha. Ha.

He looked at me. And I knew this was another Hillary “we are blanked”  moment.

This is the beam that is holding up the back left side of our house.

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Hurrah!

Honestly, it’s a good thing we started all this because one day, in the middle of the night, our beds would have dropped three feet to the ground when that 113 year old beam finally had enough.

So that’s all the crazy fun stuff rocking my world this week.

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