After

It has been four weeks and four days since we have moved into our new home, and there are still so many things going on that I have not had a chance to sit down and relax.  After the first week of moving into our new home we spent the first weekend at the lake for Labor Day, the second weekend dealing with workers, and the third weekend watching the Vols lose to Florida.  This weekend we have more workers lined up, and unfortunately we still will not be finished the work that we were hoping would be completed by the end of September.  We still need to have our under cabinet lighting installed in our kitchen, and we need to have our new heating and air unit installed.  Other than this we have made great progress on the house, and it already feels like home to me.  I love everything about our home and have even accepted that we will probably always have spiders living in our basement.  We have had some visitors over but before we have an official housewarming party, we need to buy some furniture!  Coming from our townhouse with only five rooms to a house with eleven rooms, we have a lot of empty space that needs to be filled.  I plan on continuing to blog as we finish each room and want to show a before and after of each room.  The finished project comes to no surprise to me because I envisioned the finished product the entire time, but I want to show the best I can the transformation of the house over the twelve weeks of renovating.  I am going to start with the outside and I will post a before and after of each room after this.

Labor Day weekend at the Collignon's Lake House

 UT vs. Florida

 First picture of our house that we saw when it was listed for sale on Realtracs.

Some pictures of the first day of construction

 

And now....The After!

Our goal by the end of Spring for the outside of our home is to install a privacy fence, build in a custom grill on the patio, and professionally landscape the yard.