Dumping Iron
Saturday we completely slacked off, but we made up for it Sunday.
Sunday, long-suffering Jack and I spent the day loading up the roll-away dumpster. It should be hauled off in a couple days, so we tried to get every last bit of trash. This included huge pieces of rusty iron, an old hot water heater, an iron bath tub (not antique or clawfoot, just freaking heavy), old insulation, rusty bits of metal, shingles, and God knows what else. It was around 100 degrees out so it wasn’t much fun. As part of world’s infinite cruelty, thunder clouds ringed around the Devil Queen, but none came to visit us. It sucked.
I’m still shocked by how much trash we still had laying around. The yard looks a lot better for not having a couple of toilets sitting out front. If it weren’t for the weeds and peeling paint, we’d almost look respectable, classy even.
Meanwhile, Scarlet and her mom painted our custom-built kitchen cabinets. They used milk-paint which merits a post on its own, so I won’t go into too much detail. They ended up spending about 6 hours painting so it was quite a day for everyone.
More later in the week, hopefully with pictures.
Sunday, long-suffering Jack and I spent the day loading up the roll-away dumpster. It should be hauled off in a couple days, so we tried to get every last bit of trash. This included huge pieces of rusty iron, an old hot water heater, an iron bath tub (not antique or clawfoot, just freaking heavy), old insulation, rusty bits of metal, shingles, and God knows what else. It was around 100 degrees out so it wasn’t much fun. As part of world’s infinite cruelty, thunder clouds ringed around the Devil Queen, but none came to visit us. It sucked.
I’m still shocked by how much trash we still had laying around. The yard looks a lot better for not having a couple of toilets sitting out front. If it weren’t for the weeds and peeling paint, we’d almost look respectable, classy even.
Meanwhile, Scarlet and her mom painted our custom-built kitchen cabinets. They used milk-paint which merits a post on its own, so I won’t go into too much detail. They ended up spending about 6 hours painting so it was quite a day for everyone.
More later in the week, hopefully with pictures.
posted by John | 3:36 AM
3 Comments:
Does this house give you dejavu?
http://www.hpw.com/SearchPages/IndividualListing.aspx?MlsNum=880003
If we were cool like y'all, we could do great things with it, maybe. Since we're not, I guess we'll let someone else have it.
You flatter us, and I can't help but think you're a little too hard on yourself.
Most of the time we thing we're morons for taking on this project. While house remodelling isn't for everyone, there is a lot of stuff anyone can learn to do with some hardwork, patience, and insanity.
In the off chance you decide to go for this or something similar, they're asking way too much for this place in my opinion. I don't know how the real estate market is in NC, but I wouldn't pay more that $50,000 for the whole thing (figure about 1/2 of that is for the lot).
Yeah. Some parts of Hillsborough can get pretty steep, but this isn't one of them. I predicted on my blog they wouldn't get more than $70k. But then, I tend to undervalue acreage.
I'd be more confident about our abilities if we'd accomplished anything with our current house. We've paid people to roof and side it, replace the front porch/stairs and the gas pack, but haven't done anything ourselves beyond painting one room and putting up some curtain rods and a towel bar!
We just don't have the passion. It's more of a mild affection!
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