Our house by no means was ever "unlivable", although the second floor bathroom left something to be desired with the plywood covering the holes in the water closet and the old cast iron tub with the shower head that could only let out a trickle, the remainder of the house was in good shape considering its age and we were quite happy.
Deciding to undertake a major renovation, like we are doing now, seriously took the last three years of living in this house and chatting with each other about the possibilities. It also took the last three years for us to envision the true potential of this house, experience all the "nuisances", and figure out a game plan. After last summer when we had returned home from our travels and were settling down to start teaching again, we decided that this Spring would be the time to do the renovations. We decided to do them now as we had been very fortunate the last three summers to travel extensively, if we looked into the future we saw ourselves starting a family and neither of us wanted to do renovations with little kids around, and finally we were financially stable enough to embark on such a project.
After we decided that we would actually do this project and could see ourselves pulling it off, we spent the next few months talking about a game plan...How would we start? would we live in the house during the renovation? when would we start? what type of help would we need? who should we call to come in a do our furnace? insulation? wiring? what was our time line? what if we didn't meet our time line? etc, etc.
In the end we decided that as soon as it was warm enough for us to have no heat in the house and the water lines to the boilers wouldn't freeze and break, we could begin!
Official Start Date: April 11th, 2009
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