I see the light! Praise the Lord!

I can see the light. YESSSSSSS! (said in my best Kip voice from Napolean Dynamite)

Our little house is starting to look like reasonable, normal people live there instead of the wolverine's den it's resembled for the past few weeks. We have actual couches to sit on, and a real dining room table to eat at. And if I want, I could even sit on the couch and use the (drum roll) COFFEE TABLE to set a drink on - at the same time! HA!

Gone are the days of not having anywhere to sit and eat dinner. Gone are the days of stealing Ky's bed because it was the only place soft to sit. Gone are the days of wishing Monday would get here faster so that I wouldn't have to submit myself to more slave labor - aka - home improvements. GONE!!!!

Well, maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit. There is still a considerable mess but it's just a bunch of stuff that had lost it's place while our house was turned inside out. Chris has finished 90% of the floor. We still have the office and stair landing area to complete. But that's it! It'll only take 1 day to finish that... we're shooting for Sunday.

So, with my new found excitement, I must just pat myself and Chris on the back for a moment... With what little energy Saturday's toil and Sunday's trip to the garbage dump (gross) left us, we pieced together the living room and hung some pictures. Then we sat down and had some well deserved hot chocolate and marveled at ourselves and the home we're creating. Looking around, we couldn't help but think to ourselves, "Whose house is this?". New floors, new paint, new architectural details, new furniture, new arrangements... It feels like our home, has the same address as our home, but it sure doesn't look anything like our home!

Let me take that back... it looks just like the home we always imagined it would, and what we've been working towards for 1 1/2 years, but it's so different from what it looked liked before that it's kind of strange to finally see it all together and not feel like we're at someone else's house. Anyone who has done a major remodel can relate... We picked the living room apart last night while sipping our drinks and could only think of 1 thing we would change to that room - only 1 thing!!! (That in itself is amazing) The french doors... They suck. I saw some really nice ones at Home Depot (our favorite store & past time), but they were in the range of $2,000. A lot out of our price range. So, someday, I'll just repaint the sad little doors, re-hang them with new hinges and give them a better life. Someday...

But that's just the living room, dining room, and TV room... don't get me started on the kitchen, bathroom, garage, basement, office, and upstairs. We have a long way to go to perfection.

Oh little house... who would've thought you could bring so many woes and happiness at the same time?