The House...

So it has apparently been decided that the house down the road was not entirely acceptable for habitation. This is a rather serious matter considering the fact that my dear brother is getting married at the end of this month and he and his blushing bride are to move into said house. So, this last summer my father and brother decided to start renovating this house. Needless to say the phrase, 'biting off more than you can chew' has come up multiple times in our conversations since that point in time. Here are a few pictures to show the, 'before' condition of this house.





However, my father and brother, forever the optimistic pessimists ("We'll get this job done and it'll be great! We'll just die in the process") started working. I have to say I must applaud them for their great efforts. Not only did the re-side this poor structure but they also added a deck, fixed the stucco, and added new windows. And that's just for the outside folks!





But wait! There's more! After the guys finished working on the outside we began renovating the inside. Josiah and I painted and painted and painted some more. We tore up carpet, sanded, stained, and sealed floors. We swept, scrubbed, polished and bleached.

Now the only projects we have left are to re-carpet the porch (yes, thank goodness that horrid electric blue carpet mess is out of there) and clear out all of Jacob's *ahem* stuff *coughjunkcough* from out of the basement. So here are the final pictures. I would also like to point out that if my brother and sister had known all along that they could've had these wood floors that are in the living room, I think they would've much preferred them over the yellow carpet of yester-year.



Interior before/during/after: