The Bird Room

Another project we actually started even before the family room and before we moved in was preparing a room for the birds. We are going to put them in the bedroom off the family room. Someday we'll build them a sunroom, but this is a pretty nice set up for now.

The before picture is again with the former owner's stuff in it. We didn't take one of it empty.

The first picture below shows Miran removing the carpet, then we have a view after I scaped up the asbestos tile (without knowing it was toxic), then Miran smoothing out the problems in the concrete.

He then primed the floor, then we painted the walls a cheerful green and laid some peel stick linoleum tiles, and finally the room was ready for the birds!

Painting the Family Room

One of our first projects was updating and lightening up the family room. It had really dark panelling on three walls and the forth is all brick. Here is a before photo (with the former owner's stuff) and a picture of the room all primed and ready to paint.

We painted the paneling a very pale color. Its called Euro Linen! Sounds fancy. Here is a picture of the room all primed and ready to paint.

Its also the first room we really set up with furniture. Somehow, even though we are no longer renting, we ended up with a very beige room again - beige carpet, beige walls, and beige furniture! Maybe we'll have to get slip covers for the sofas to get a little contrast or color into the room. We still prefer it significantly to the dark paneling from before.

I would also eventually like to paint the fireplace wall white, and get a more modern mantel and ceiling fan as well. Oh and to hang something on the walls, of course.

Workshop Table

We have a very nice workshop in a small room in the corner of our carport. It has double doors opening up to the backyard.

The week-end we moved in Dad and Miran built a table for his workshop. Here are some shots of the men at work!

Moving Day!

On Saturday we moved in. We had a bunch of friends as well as Mom and Dad come help us and believe it or not by 11:30 am we were completely done. Miran backed the truck right up to the front door and the guys just walked everything right in. I stood in the foyer and told them where to take everything.

Of course that means everything was in the house by midday Saturday ... but many things still have not been put away. The dining room is curently the staging area where al the boxes are waiting for me to sort through them and find homes for all our stuff! Here is a view of our dining room now - we don't have any furniture for our dining or living room anyway so there is no hurry to make room!

First Guests

A few friends came over a few days after closing to play board games on the floor of our new house. We hadn't moved in yet and had no furniture - but it was nice to show off our new place.