Bringing you up to speed part 2

WE HAVE BEEN APPROVED TEMPORARY OCCUPANCY!  

We received a phone call from our inspector that the county has officially approved us to live in our house.  WOOHOO! Although we had started moving some items over prior to the call (those items you store in the attic like holiday decor) We definitely kicked up the speed in moving over the rest of the house after that.  

PHEW...What a relief that was, as we were not quite sure what our plan B would be if we were not granted temporary occupancy.  Although the move took a lot longer than planned, we are in and have been sleeping in the house and living fully functional for about a week now.  (again I'm a bit tardy in my update, sorry) We are also in need of some serious organization!  TIME is what we need now! 

       The kids old closet... 

   ...The kids NEW closet

A few more pics of our very unorganized house. Calling all organizing experts! HELP! ;)

NEXT STEPS, little house DEMOLITION!!

Bringing you up to speed part 1

It seems to be that once we get busy with the house, and all hands are on deck, the blog tends to fall behind.  My apologies!  

Let's bring you up to speed!

                               

On the left is the hole that had to be drilled through the wall of the foundation so we could slip the pipe for waste to be pumped to the septic.  Right is the installed pipe. (and it works!)  

This picture may not look that exciting, but it's very exciting to us.  The dirt smoothed out again and grass seed spread shows where we had to dig to connect our house to the septic! This means everything is fully functional. Toilets, sinks, showers, etc. Yay!

Picture of the house, and what the landscaping is starting to look like.

Moving of our boxwood bushes so we can re-plant them in a new location so they will survive while we take the house down. 

So far they seem to like their new location by  the stone garage, they might just stay.

Emptying the house was a bigger task than it seemed.  For such a small house, this took a lot longer than expected.  I don't seem to have a ton of pictures of this task as I feel like we were just go go go, and didn't really hit pause to capture the moments...

Inspection Day

Good Morning!

I'm sitting here enjoying a cup of coffee working on a new blog post, but more importantly I'm waiting for our inspector to come and give us the go ahead to move in!  Cross your fingers and say a little prayer that all goes well and we can move in!   More to come soon! Stay tuned, and don't be shy to post a comment. We love to see who's following us!  

Also, do you see what just arrived? My dad's book!!! If you haven't gotten your copy yet, you can find it on Amazon!

Trench digging

Here Brandon is prepping for our water supply to be hooked up from the well to the house.  A trench needs to be dug for the water supply, as well as a trench for the septic hook up. This is big stuff, as it means we will be moving in very soon!  We should be about 2-3 weeks away now!  Once water is hooked up, septic hooked up, tile complete in master bath, as well as toilet installed and vanity we will be in! Of course all after we get inspected and are approved by the county to move in. Cross your fingers and say a little prayer that all goes well.  This has been a very long long time coming! 

Master Bathroom

For the Master Bathroom we really wanted to keep it clean, fresh, and luxurious feeling. Brandon is almost done tiling the shower.  We ran out of tile so had to order more which put us back a bit.  Not to worry though, we have had plenty of other projects to keep us busy. Once the Master bath is complete I'll post more pics, but here we are so far.

    Starting with the longest run of the room first, then working your way out side to side. Lots of planning, measuring, and configuring before laying the tile.

Prepping for the shower pan 

 ready for tile!

Shower floor

 

More to come soon, stay tuned...