Making it ours.

Over the course of the next several months we got to unpack so many lovely things that had been in storage until we had a real living space. 4 years living in the bedrooms.  It was like a second wedding, Christmas, and birthday rolled into one.  Lovely glassware, cookware, accouterments of all kinds. It was time to upgrade some stuff too.  Some of our furnishings simply wouln't do in this wonderfull space we created.
So we got a dining room table, a new couch, many rugs, a new fridge, and many other new things.

The kids showing off the new living room rug and couch.

our wonderful kitchen, such as it is.

I guess that's all I'll say for now.  suffice to say, it's really quite nice down here.

What a Drain.

well,  a lot has happened since the last post, and yet again I'm forced to catch you all up on the great progress we've made.  It seems to be easier to make time for the house than to write a post but here we go:

When we left off, the last of the finished plumbing fixtures had been added and we were stoked to move into the other 60% of our house that had been unlivable until now.  Well, the kitchen basin didn't drain and that gave me the sinking sensation that the old pipe we had connected to was going nowhere.
with my dad now living in town, I talked him into some Father-Son time digging up the old pipe and cutting into our main sewer feeder.  Ahhh good times.  The pipe resisted at first: sledge, hacksaw, sawz-all all failed.  There is not much an angle grinder can't cut through though--eventually.

Waa? there are no pics?  maybe it's better that way.

Then it was simply a matter of cutting a hole in the new foundation sill and connecting to our recently installed drain, then running exposed pipe under the house till it came out at a foundation vent.  Then you add a corner, connect to the the sewer, make sure it drains, cover it and hope to hell the inspector doesn't have problem with the grade not quite being code.  hey, it drains doesn't it?

With the plumbing done we moved down in January with lots of little things to do.