Hi! I am going to show you some older pics of some, well a lot of, roof work that was done. I don't have the finished picture for you yet; as it is covered in snow right now, but it is just black rubber on there. This past Summer, Cliff worked very hard for a week to get this all torn up and finished. He did. He only had a few finishing things to do after that. The entire week was sunny and perfect! I say that is pretty good for having never redone a roof before in this manner. This work BTW had been done on the lower roof. The upper roof has yet to be done. That section is in OK shape so it will be refinished in a year or two.

First picture is the contraption Cliff built to get the roof items up there. It worked out pretty good. Zack was pretty interesting in seeing it work.

This is after a lot of the crappy rubber, old insulation from ages ago and siding were removed. He shoveled it all off, and it was soaked under all of those layers due to leaks in the rubber. Our chimney on the right of the pic, which leads down into our kitchen.

View of the cleaned off roof toward the house. You can see now what I mean by "lower roof?" The slate was unfortunately cheaply repaired with tar instead of fixed correctly.

This picture was angled away from the house. Flat top and underneath it all are boards, which were still OK to use thank goodness. Just needed to be aired out.

So our house needs a nice paint job. It SCREAMS for it. The trim needs to be repaired in spots also...no surprise there? As a little bit of advice from me...when you have problems in your home, if you do a "temporary" fix, let it be that. TEMPORARY. Fix it the way it deserves, so in the long run you, nor the next owner, have to deal with it in worse shape later. DON'T BE LAZY. It's not worth it. 

Before...

And after. I think we will keep the grey-ish color and the off white. But the third color for the ornates (purple) will be darker I think. And maybe even a whole different color.

 This home needs some life as well, so I am going to plant a rose bush or two, and some other flowers here and there outside. We want to plant a little garden also - I miss having one.

Getting an old house like this needs a lot of time, and patience. You need to go in accepting that things won't be perfect. You will live out of your comfort zone for a little while. During all of this, anger management is a must! ;)

For example. See the seriously outdated and horrible wall paper? The geeky linoleum on the floor? Not our thing, not one teeny tiny bit. But the time will come where it will all be gone. This is our computer room BTW. Walls will be torn down, new outlets/electrical done.

It's been a while! We decided to take a break from major projects during the Winter. BUT, I do have pics of some things that we DID do, and a few other things I had never shown anyone once it was done. A friend reminded me that it's time to start this blog thing again! ;)


The first two pics are of our torn apart bedroom-to-be! It is pretty good size, but you can't really see that from the pictures here.

One end of the room. Yes, there is a door in there! Leads to a small "room." The boards there are shelves we are putting in the bathroom. Repurposed from the floor trim in one of the other rooms.



The other end of our room. We plan to put up the walls up soon. And we can have our bedroom upstairs!