Team Berg!: New House

We bought the new house in November and it took us four months to get it ready for habitation. It came complete with carpet soaked in cat pee and a wooden coffin in the backyard. The carpet was ripped out easily enough but I still can't figure out what the previous tenants used that coffin for. This post is all about the renovation process so feel free to skip it if renovations are not up your alley.

Front of the house.

Blue, noisy garage doors.

New, quiet garage doors being installed

New garage doors against super old siding.

Side of house.

Back of house complete with sun porches.

Other side of house.

Eric and Joseph ripping down the sun porch and deck because it was rotting and I didn't want to fall through it.

There was so much glass everywhere. So much glass.

That's our pretty little house from down below.

That's a deer in our backyard. They don't like our backyard

quite as much now that there are dogs there.

This is what my life was like for months as I would order things and then bring them to the new house when they arrived. The Fed-Ex man and I were on a first name basis.

This is the deep snow on our driveway. Our new driveway is super long and we were not prepared for how snow would affect our ability to get to the house this year. One snowy day, early in the morning, I went up to the house to meet an appliance delivery man and got stuck in the middle of my own driveway. Thankfully, I got there before the delivery men did and they parked on the street and walked down the driveway to help me get back out again. They were so kind. Next year we need a 4-wheeler and a plow.

A pretty girl at the new house.

This is our view. Isn't it amazing?!

This is the same view when it snows. It's like we are the only people in the world.

Front entry-way.

Front entryway with some walls knocked down.

Living room.

Living room with some walls knocked down and the random balcony shortened.

Living room with the balcony being made pretty.

Balcony finished.

Room finished.

Living room fireplace.

Fireplace finished.

Living room.

Living room with random outside deck reclaimed as living space.

Main floor bathroom.

Main floor bathroom finished.

Kitchen.

Dining room.

Wall between kitchen and dining room being knocked down by my strong boys.

Not surprisingly, they are very talented when it comes to demolition.

Wall dividing kitchen and dining room gone.

Finished dining room.

Kitchen with proposed island in the middle.

Kitchen with lovely island in the middle.

Kitchen done.

Clean kitchen done ;)

Family room.

Family room painted with carpet pad.

Family room and strange doorway that led to the strange hallway.

Strange hallway demolished and two doorways installed for kids' rooms.

Doors and family room completed.

Another picture of the weird hallway.

We removed it.

So we could make two smaller bedrooms into one large bedroom for the boys. They still want to room together and I want to take advantage of that for as long a possible.

New big room framed out and textured.

Wall coming down in Rebekah's new bedroom.

Joseph forcing the wall to come down in Rebekah's new bedroom.

Rebekah's new bedroom is a weird one. The walls were drywall, shiplap, and brick when we started.

The shiplap came down easily enough but the brick didn't. We had to turn a french door that was in her room into a window which meant we needed to get a mason to brick under the window. How strange is that?

The storage room.

The other storage room.

The storage shed outside. None of this was ours. We inherited it when we bought the house. We had to pay someone to junk it for us.

The prison stairs.

The finished stairs.

The balcony upstairs.

That random area behind David ran past some bookshelves to a window. It seemed sort of pointless and made the living room below it seem smaller so we took it down.