New Year New Projects

Now that the Holidays are finally over and things have settled down, it's time to get on to our next project, our Den.  So far, the only place in our house to relax and watch TV is our bedroom, which means once I lay down to watch a show, I'm likely to fall asleep soon after.  Therefore, we need a room with a couch and TV.

Andy started on the Den a couple weeks ago.  Here's what it looked like when we had our home inspection:

And here it is now:

There's a lot that has to be done to this room, but at least Andy has gotten quite experienced with plastering.  Unfortunately there was one wall that could not be fixed.

When we took the wood paneling down the wall behind it was a huge mess, so we decided it would be easier just to take it down.   Now we just have to rebuild this wall, fix the others, fix the ceiling, prime, paint the trim and either paint or wallpaper the walls.  I'm hoping to be done in less than 5 months this time. We'll see...

Squirrel Update

A few weeks ago we had the tree we believed the squirrels were using to get onto our roof trimmed back, and since then there have been no more squirrels in our attic.  With this close to zero degree weather, if we don't catch anymore, I believe the problem will have been taken care of.  We only had to relocate five furry friends.