House Project #2

Well well, we are way behind on what our plans were for the house remodel. I'd like to know if there's one person, builder, architect, subcontractor,  engineer etc who actually gets construction done before their scheduled goal. Don't tell me if you know or are one of them, it'll only make me feel horrible since in the last decade working in these fields I haven't. :S

Anyway, so continuing with the story...... I think we had planned to have the interior of the house all done by the end of the year. Well, we're not even close.  First the bathrooms cost double what we thought and due to my lack of planning for products to be here before we started, it took a few weeks longer. And my easily distracted brain has concentrated way too much on having fun on the beach this year. Not to worry though, I have repented of my beach conspiracies and will be more disciplined next year.

So project #2 has started and will be almost all done by the time I get home. We have replaced our single paned, aluminum windows and torn screens with new energy star windows, replaced the front and side doors and are also re-stuccoing the entire house. Well, the front door is still being made, but hopefully it should be here in a couple of weeks, so then it'll all be done.

For now here are some pictures of the "Before" process: taking the old windows down, installing the new ones and re-lathing the house for the new brown coat and color. Brown coating should be done by tomorrow and then when we get home it'll almost be time for coloring, exciting!

 Notice the painted stucco.  They painted over it and where there were trees and bushes all around these windows they simply left it unpainted. Nice.......

Don't you love those 80's doors?  yuck. 

These are the windows to our family room.  There used to be HUGE thorny bushes around them full of spiders and gross insects. Rob is also redoing the walls inside the family room because they are ugly 70's wood paneling....

The bedroom wing of the house and Rob Berg our wonderful general contractor. If you are in Santa Fe and you need some minor or major remodeling...get in line! Rob has to finish our house first. hahahahahahah

It took Rob twice as long to get all the windows out, the original stucco was 2"thick. Crazy! I gotta find a picture of the house with all the ugly bushes around the windows so you can see the true before and after...