Oh the insanity...

Having a house = insanity. Well it depends on your house I guess and how handy your husband is ;)

I love our home.... it is a 1978 bungalow and it had many key updates when we bought it such as a new kitchen, windows, appliances, doors, bathroom, etc.

There were some obvious changes we wanted to make such as: painting over the 'dusty rose' paint in the living room and the peach in the kitchen. And we plan to remove the pink carpet in the near future - well probably in the fall/early winter.
But it is AMAZING how one little job leads into another and then another until the whole place is in shambles. We finished the guest room upstairs and just as we did so - our renter in the basement moved out. Which is fine as we wanted to turn it into a completely separate unit with full kitchen and everything.

However..... there are illegal bedrooms in the basement - there are no windows. So, Ben being a handy-man as well as my fabulous brother-in-law Steve, thought it should be no problem to cut through the concrete and put in three 48" by 30" windows.
So this is day 3 of working on one window and constant drilling and banging. Ben has drilled about 175 holes through the one foot deep concrete in the perimeter of where the new window will be. And then using a sledge hammer to chip away at the concrete.

This is crazy -and there are 2 more to go. I am hoping we have the window in tonight so I can mud and paint tomorrow before the cabinets arrive Wednesday. It will all be worth it in the end, but I am more than ready to be done this project.

Have a great Victoria Day,
Johanna