My name is Stan. My wife, Susan and I are remodeling our house. I am a Charter Member of M.W.C.B. (Men Who Can't Build) so we have no skills to be taking on project of this size. But we have a cool old Victorian Craftsman located in a great part of town and we have an abundance up Stupidity. We knew exactly what we were getting into when we started this and we could not have been more wrong. We had no idea what we were getting into and our eyes continue to be re-opened for us almost daily.So this blog will be a record of our adventure through Remodeling Hell. I figure it's a good way that I can keep track of our progress. We can also direct friends and family to this site so they can have a good laugh at our expense
We bought the house in November of 2004. It was a FSBO. The previous owner created his own site on Blogger.com and listed the many amenities of the house. It's still an active site (as of August 2012) and you can see it at www.buymyhouse.blogspot.com.
The house will be 100 years old in 2009. That is our tentative goal for having most of our remodeling work completed. That remodeling work includes a total gutting and remodel of two Bathrooms, the Kitchen, the Entry Way and some rebuilding of the Main Stairway. We have less extensive work to do on three bedrooms, the Living Room and the deck. Then of course, there is the matter of replacing the one car garage with a two car affair and extensive landscaping of the yard.
On the positive side, we have completed the remodel of the Dining Room and we have most of the re-wiring done. We will soon complete the upstairs landing and master bedroom. There are still lots of holes to patch but not before I make a bunch more holes.
Whether or not we make our goal will be chronicled here.
