Day 5

We woke up to a wind storm this morning, so the plans to paint the front porch had to wait. We painted the kitchen cabinets instead. We always try to save or re-use as much as we can on the homes we work on. We were able to save the wall cabinets and we painted them with Sherwin Williams "Navajo White". The base cabinets were too worn and damaged to keep in the kitchen( shown here before we ripped them out) , but we were able to move them to the laundry area in the basement. We will put new cabinets and a new countertop in the kitchen.




I think one of the hardest things when re-habbing a house is not over-doing it. It is so easy to just keep adding extras. There is such a fine line between creating "selling points" in a house and adding something because you know it would look good (or be really fun to do!) The decorator in me wants to add glass tile backsplashes, and built-in window seats, but the flipper in me is counting every penny we are spending, keeping an eye on the profits.



After painting all day in a house that was only 50 degrees, Kindle came in to put in our new furnace! So nice to have heat. The old furnace was so huge they had to break it up and throw pieces out the basement window.





We were fortunate enough to inherit this giant column when we bought the house. It's just standing in the dining room, not attached to anything. Too big for the front porch, we wonder what the previous owner had in mind for it. We really want to incorporate it into the house somewhere. We're planning on putting a 1/2 wall, counter between the kitchen and dining room, so we may use it as the end post there.





Tomorrow we should have running water and a working toilet - Life is good!!