As of this week, we’ve lived in our home for 3.5 years. Coincidentally, by week’s end we’ll have lived here longer than we lived in our previous residence – meaning that this house is where Owen has lived longer than anywhere else.
Anyway, as I’ve done semi-annually since we moved in, I will hereby provide an update on improvements we made to our home in the past six months.
By the way, if you’re interested, here’s the blog post detailing what we did during the six months prior to these most recent six months.
ISLA’S ROOM
-Installed quarter-round to complete the trim.
-Installed a doorknob!
Yes, finally, Isla has a doorknob. Or, rather, she has it again, as her door did originally have a doorknob, but I took it off to clean it and, in doing so, ruined it. So I took it to an architectural salvage shop to have it refurbished. Now it’s as good as new.
LIVING ROOM
-Replaced final window with honeycomb blind.
If you read the last post about updates to our home, you’ll recall that I had only replaced three of the four windows’ treatments by taking out the old miniblinds and putting in honeycomb blinds. So one of the windows didn’t match the others. Now it does.
-Mudded over the big hold in the corner.
Shortly after we moved in, I ripped out the ugly, defunct home alarm. In the living room, this left an unsightly hole in the corner. Well, the corner is still unsightly, but now Jennifer has mudded it up. Maybe one day we’ll get around to sanding and painting over it.
YARD
-Tilled up the whole back/side yard and reseeded.