Whats New? 9/29

Hey All, everyone wants to know whats new!  Well, we're moved in, and continuing to work on the mansion.  Found an original postcard from cardcow.com and purchased that.  This is a great pic of the mansion from 1909, you can just see the roller coaster in the background to the right of the house.  Once the trees and weeds die we'll see if we can find any remnants over in the woods. 

Jim has been working on the property, clearing things out and getting it cleaned up.  We brought plants over from the old house and put them in the beds getting ready for the fall.

I spent the weekend putting the new floor down in the breakfast room and wow what a difference

Dining room set FINALLY looks right!

We keep uncovering more surprises, it looks like there's a walkway and flowerbeds around the fountain.  pretty cool!

 Curtains going up!

All the boys settling in, Turner, Zack and Reggie

8/12/10 - WE ARE NO LONGER AN FHA PROJECT!!!

Well gang, we passed the FHA inspection yesterday!  This will close the file on that portion of the project so we are able to refi the house with a different mortgage company, a smaller interest rate and pay off a chunk of it.  Its been a long road due to contractor issues, mortgage company issues, etc. but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.  August 17 (tuesday) is our Township inspection to close out the permits and get a C/O so we can move in.  There's still work that needs to be done in preparation for that inspection, but for the most part we should be clear, there's still little stuff to be done, and we still have the whole apartment to finish, but there's no rush there.  I just want to get moved in and get the other house sold asap.

Anyway, stay tuned for more updates, we're ready to PARTY at the mansion!!!

8/6/10

Floors are sanded!

8/4/10 - 8 Days Left Till FHA Inspection!

After 6 1/2 months and about 7 grand in paint, the painting is FINALLY done!!  Chris, John & Crew did a great job pulling late hours to get it done for us.  4 Stars!!

7/24/10 - Can't take much more

So after not showing up at all this week my sheetrocker/painter finally sent me an email at 5 this morning quitting.  Nice.  I am so sick of dealing with this stuff.  This totally screws up the whole schedule, painting and sheetrock was supposed to be done by sunday so the floors could get done this week, this adds another week provided I can get someone to start on monday.  Would rather they started today.  SOOOO not happy.

Turner leaves tomorrow for a work trip, my work sucks and now I have to try to get down there and paint 5 rooms.  So stressed and tired, don't know how much more I can take at this point.

Will be down house around noon today if anyone wants to pick up a brush or roller :(

7/21/10

wwwwwwwoooooowwwwwwwww

7/12/10

These are the kitchen cabinets we ordered, hopefully we'll have them installed this week! Woohoo!

Siding goin up!

Railing for Door to Nowhere

Floors before....

Floors After!

Still ugly.

LOVE the doors!!!

And the babies are getting big :)