It’s a long weekend here in Ontario with today being a holiday. So everyone is off of work, except for me! The contractors finished their work on Friday, so our real work has begun. We had them in tearing down some alls to make one large bedroom out of two smaller ones and moved the old en-suite bathroom. The new one is larger with a large shower and two separate vanities for me and Danny.

We stared the final finishing of the drywall on Saturday, and after sanding, my house was just covered in dust! It was everywhere, and that was after trying to contain it. We also patched up a bunch of the walls in the hallway and other bedrooms as there were holes everywhere. Yesterday we were able to do the priming in our bedroom and bathroom and we hope to get the first coat of paint on later today. We have to run out to Montreal in a few minutes as my older son is moving into a new place and we are giving him our old fridge and stove and need to bring those out to him. Hopefully we don’t get caught up with things and can get back to paint.

After we finish the painting, we have to install the new bathroom vanities and tops, the toilets, and all the fixtures. Then comes the flooring. We bought really nice solid oak flooring for the entire upper level of the house and a friend who does flooring for a living is dropping over to help us install it. When the is done, we can finally get our doors in! Then the trim and base and we are done! Well, our room at least. We are changing all four of the bathrooms we have and our garage is full of bathroom vanities right now, five in total.

We still are waiting on the flooring to be delivered as well as the doors, the closet doors, and a few other things. They should all be in this week. So far we are at around $50K in the renovations! It’s a good thing we made some money on the sale of our last house 😉

But I did take a couple of breaks this weekend. On Friday, we went over to the local bar for a couple of drinks, and then on Saturday evening a couple of friends dropped over to viit for a couple of hours. But it was all very relaxed with nothing else going on. It’ll be a few weeks before I am able to “play” again as we have just too much work to get through on the house. So I’ll probably just be boring you on here the next little while 😉