Tuesday, June 14, 2011

House Updates

We moved into this house last May.  It needed, and still needs a lot of work.  We've been making some updates so we'll be ready for our home study.  I want to have things more in order so the social worker doesn't think that I think this house is ready for a child- we're working on it.  Chris has the main bathroom nearly ready, the windows are scheduled to be replaced sometime this month.  We've added a tree and rain barrel in the backyard.   We have a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to tear up the impervious surfaces in the backyard and landscape more conducive to the climate.
Here is the little one's room before:

It was a weird mango color.  The door to the former sleeping porch- now a fully enclosed room was missing and the window that led into that room was painted stuck half open.  You can't see the light fixture, but the glass in it was missing. 
We don't know yet if our little one will be a girl or boy, or even how old s/he will be so we wanted to keep the room neutral.   Right now there is a low full sized bed, because we don't know yet if we'll need a twin, a toddler bed or a crib.  When we know the gender, we can decorate more appropriately.
This isn't the finished product, but here's where its at now:

I'll have to look more for the pictures that show the other view, you can't see the dresser from this angle.  Chris got the window frame unstuck, now he's ordered new glass.  I want to get a bigger, soft rug because kids like to play on the floor and a desk for homework, but this is a start. 
Last weekend we picked up a new ceiling fan at home depot and a door from the Community Forklift.
We have a long list of projects, but at least we have a good start on this one. 
The next project will either be the backyard or the family room.

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