New Roofs, Main house chemneys restored, damaging or dead/ dying over grown trees removed, basement fully cemented, old insulation sucked out in main attics floor boards and installed new installion to under to roof trusses. All this is DONE Yeah!!!!All of this needed to be done before the real updates on our interior could be … Continue reading Let The REAL Fun Begin!
I am starting to hate this attic. really. Not the house mind you, JUST THIS ATTIC. We wear the best safety body gear from the local hardware store money can supply ;), masks and plastic gloves. With ALL of that I still had dirt under my nails, brusing all over my body and blowing dirt … Continue reading YEP we are ATtic again ( pun intended)
It’s the simple things in life that you wouldn’t realized was important to you until you didn’t have it. For me it was hot running water, a single working toliet and a cemented basement. When we first moved in the water had been turned off for a few years. in addition to no water run … Continue reading Awe the simple things in life….A cemented and sealed basement…
Insulating one of the attics …… yes I am going to talk about it cause it is important living in Iowa to have it….not exciting, not pretty and certainly NOT something you want to do every weekend in November but thats what we did…. sigh… and meh. Our longest plan we have had for the … Continue reading Insulatation… sigh…..meh
“How’s the house coming? Is it done yet?No…. But you all have moved in upstairs now, right?” ”Where is the new blog post? its been a while…” This is the questions Evan and I have been getting lately from well meaning friends and neighbors. And we get it! On the outside it looks like we … Continue reading “How’s the house coming…?”
As the holiday season of 2018 comes to an end. It makes me think of all the wonderful people in my family’s life. How much love I have for the simple moments in life. A dear friends birthday celebration during this hectic time was so needed by all that came. A card game played on … Continue reading A Bat in MY Bucket
Many buildings in South Amana are brick with a sandstone foundation. Each colony is known for being built with ” mostly wood or mostly stone” depending on when it was built and what material was easily accessible for that Colony. One neat and not super well known ( as the building is no more) is … Continue reading Ye old brick home
Knowingly part of our purchase of the house was the fact we had to re-shingle all three of the properties. With all exterior renovations we do on a historic house in a National Historic Landmark area. All updates need to be approved and permitted by the ACLUD Amana Colonies Land Use District its a “certified … Continue reading Three new roofs and a painted entry
We did something a little crazy… nutty or just plan stupid or at least thats what some people have been saying. Sometimes I feel that “they” are right, we are crazy, nutty and completely daft for going a little against the grain of peers in our generation have been doing, buying or building new … Continue reading We did something a little crazy…
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