construction Archives - Jessica Ferguson

I’m hanging in there with the annual A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. For more information on the challenge and its creator visit: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com

If you’re just tuning in to my A to Z postings, my theme is home renovation. We just renovated our house–a job that was supposed to last from four to six weeks.

We’ve spent a lot of money on our renovation. Unfortunately, we have less storage space (and more boo-boos) now than we did before Mr. Contractor got started. So, that being said, I have to admit that I’m not at a place–mentally/emotionally–where I really love what’s been done. With the exception of the bookcases and my dining room, I’d UNDO much of what was done. I’m trying to be appreciative and thankful. Maybe later–once I’ve licked my wounds and forgotten the name of the contractor.

Is there anything you’d UNDO–that really can’t be undone? How’d you deal with it? Share with me.

I’m hanging in there with the annual A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. For more information on the challenge and its creator visit: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com.

Mr. Contractor made renovation sound so incredibly easy. Oh, yeah, easy for him. He could go home to a clean, organized house, while hubby and I holed up in the back bedroom, trapped like rats.

For months, we ate every meal out. It sounds like a woman’s dream to not cook but it gets old. Eating out is more fun when it’s my choice—not mandatory.

As for clothes … we couldn’t find a thing. Everything we owned was in boxes, piled in a stack on a bed, or in the middle of a floor. When Mr. Contractor was ready to demolish a particular room, we had to move all our piled up clothes to another room, one he’d finished. To date, I haven’t even found all my clothes because we still haven’t unpacked boxes or organized our closets. Maybe my missing items ran off with my washroom doors!

While we were roughing it, Mr. Contractor was roughing it in. He built walls and tore some out. He had a good laugh about how my dining room had a weird opening that led into our den, and talked me into letting him enclose it. Do you think a contractor should make fun of his client’s home?

I guess his enclosure actually made the den and the dining area seem larger–though it wasn’t on my list of things to do. But neither were a few other things. Our little contractor took some liberties, and I’ll tell you about one of them on S day. See you then!

U is for Undo

R is for Roughing it and Roughing it in!