Home Improvement Week 1

Since I don't blog anymore I figured I'd blog about something we're actually doing, rather than just more baby stuff (we're nearly in the single digit week countdown, eek!)

We have a long list of things we want to do before Shelby gets here, and many big home improvement projects are on that list. These are things we've always said we would do before we knew we'd be able to sell and buy a bigger house. Our first idea was to carpet. Our carpet is old, worn, and definitely seen its day. But after a lot of thought we decided to wait to carpet till before we decide to sell, that way we can say our condo has brand new carpet. Not carpet that we installed a year previous and has seen the wear of two kids.

So the next on our list is to finally buy doors for our washer/dryer closet. The guy we bought our condo from actually TOOK the brand new doors he bought for that closet with him. Along with all of the individual blades (not wall attachments) for the vertical blinds that were in here too. We were so mad about the doors. Not mad enough to make him bring them back, but seriously who does that? We'll get doors in the next couple of weeks.

The big things we're doing is tiling. John needs tiling practice for work for times when they have to rip up tile to get to pipes and stuff at people's pools. So we're doing the kitchen, guest bath and master bath. That's like 150 square feet of tile! We're also ripping out the vanity and soffits in the guest bath. The vanity in there now is original and looks like the side pane of particle board was replaced and they did a craptastic job. So we're getting a free-standing vanity that doesn't mount to the wall. This will be the first project we tackle. I'm scared and excited!

Here's the tile we're putting in the smaller bath. We're probably crazy with going with 2x2 tile, but I think it's going to look really cool!

I'll post more updates when I can. Or this may be my only post about it ever. Who knows? ;)