House #2 - Dining - FINAL

A little background information.  This house was remodeled and sold before going into foreclosure when we purchased the house from the bank.  This house was known as the "ghost house" by our realtor who had shown the house several times with no success.  That was before we purchased and remodeled what would become the second house we lived in.

Here is the before picture.

As I said yesterday we were going for the open feel in the house.  Here the sheetrock has been removed and is ready for the contractor to remove the wall.

We also opened up the wall close to the entry as you can see below.  At this point the walls are ready for the new sheetrock.

Here is the princess doing what she does best...supervising the work.  You can also see the gap we had to contend with and the reason we decided on laying a wood floor over the existing floor.

Here is the dining room all finished and decorated.

Pool and Pups

The game room is finished enough that we were able to get the pool table moved in so Aimee and Ray could close on their house. There is still work that has to be done to get it completely finished so it has been covered and there will no playing pool until it is completely finished (sorry Justin!!).



When we work at the house we like to have the dogs over there. They run around and play while we work. We usually put in long hours over there on the weekends. Here are a few pictures of them after they have worn themselves out.
Yes she is actually sleeping standing up!



Here they are waiting patiently by the truck while we pack up to go home.

Hurricane Ike!!!!

I am going to go a little out of order because Hurricane Ike has caused us to be without power for over a week now. I had planned on putting up some more pictures from renovating the house first but without power I am doing this in the little free time I have at work.

Storm prep extended a little longer than we had planned because the dumpster company never came to empty the dumpster. So at about 6:00 that evening as the winds were starting to pick up Mike and Justin were out there tying down the trash so nothing would blow into a neighbor's house!


Some people's ideas of protecting their windows was comical to us so I decided to grab a picture. My feeling is...whats the point if that's all you are going to do.


The storm rolled in Friday night. We lost power about 10:30 that night. The winds were impressive..whipping trees around. Surprisingly we didn't get as much rain as I had expected.

Now for the aftermath. Here is a picture from the bay window. The neighbor's tree fell into our driveway about 4:30 in the morning. It missed the house by inches.


The turbines flew off and landed next to each other in the backyard. Yes that is exactly where they landed.


Here's the neighbor's tree again. The sidewalk at the bottom of the picture is in our front yard and used to be flat. The roots of the tree are pushing it up and the tree is leaning precariously into the street. We are waiting for the tree guys to come take it down but I think they are all a little busy right now.


The house sustained some roof damage in the back. If you look closely you can see the missing shingles at the top.


Justin had to duct tape the holes where the turbines came off to try to prevent any more water damage to the ceiling. How sad does he look? Awwwww.


Surveying the damage at my parents house. Luckily they only lost their back fence but now they have a pool!




Baleigh was a trooper all day traveling with us between houses to check on everything. She was exhausted by the end of the day.