Day 179: White Christmas

We got a white Christmas in Atlanta this year - the first time in over 100 years! Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Day 169: Catching Up

Well it's been a little while since we posted anything.  We are right in the middle of holidays and have been pretty busy with traveling, visiting, shopping for gifts, etc. and working on the house but not so much with the blogging. 


So the picture of the upstairs bathroom is because we needed to do some hasty work up there about a month ago in order to keep our water turned on!!!  Unincorporated Dekalb County has an ordinance that mandates updating to low flow toilets and fixtures when a house in sold.  If everything is not updated at the time of sale you have 30 days to get it in order and inspected or you can't have any water.  We had been getting 30 day extensions while we were not living in the house but once they heard we had moved in they said no more extensions!  We had not planned to do any work upstairs yet but it was forced on us.  We had to take some areas down to the studs and tear our a few layers of flooring to run some new supply lines to the tub/shower, sink, and toilet.  We got enough done to pass our inspection so that's good but the upstairs bathroom looks pretty bad at the moment but functionally speaking it's in better working order even if it looks bad!   


Back to the other projects at hand.  The kitchen is primary focus.  The goal is to get it all finished up for Mary's big 30th birthday party.  The counter tops should be here tomorrow and if the weather will stay clear and warmer we can get to making some doors and drawer fronts to match the old stuff in the rest of the kitchen to go on the front of the base cabinets we replaced.  

Day 154: Christmas at Greystone Cottage

And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

Here's a sneak peek at the cottage as we begin to decorate for the holidays... don't you just love this time of year?