Help me choose

I added a poll because I would like your opinion on which color you like best for the hardwood floors upstairs.  You have three options-any help would be greatly appreciated.

Left is Jacobean, middle Special Walnut and right is Dark Walnut.

Jacobean: dark with a black tone



Special Walnut: the lightest



 Dark Walnut; darker with a warm chocolate tone

Out with the old

The first area of the house Bart and I are focusing on is the basement. Why the basement you ask? Because there is an apartment that we want to make into a LEGAL basement apartment that we can rent. Now that we have the permit, Bart has jumped in with both feet and is ready to go. We don't want the basement to feel like a neglacted old dungeon- which is exactly what it feels and smells like currently.

 Can you believe the taped windows? and yes we knowingly bought it this way...

The basement has 3 bedrooms or 2 bedrooms and an office.

The first thing we are doing is adding some natural light by cutting out the small windows and replacing them with much much larger windows. Natural light is wonderful!  We hired Omar from ksl.com to cut out the windows because he was the least expensive and would do it on a Saturday, but before we could have the windows cut Bart had to DIG DIG DIG.

 Bart also had this delivered because he needed to fill the window wells with something...

he only had 11 tons of gravel delivered. Geeze, I'm not sure if we will have enough :)



After cutting out the windows, Bart has demolished the old bedrooms.  We plan to redo the ceiling (to make it soundproof), frame the bedrooms (currently it's just foundation wall), add insulation, change the duct work, run new electrical wires and boxes, drywall and of course new pain and carpet.  I finally will come in on the paint and carpet part.

LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!

This is the house that Bart will rebuild

Do any of you remember the children's book/nursery rhyme, This is the House that Jack Built? Well I have decided that the theme for our new house will be "this is the house that Bart rebuilt".  I think it's kind of catchy :)

This picture is of the house before Bart (BB). We think the house has "good bones" and a lot of potential.  We love that it is a brick rambler with a 2 car garage on the main floor.   Hopefully you will enjoy our house projects with us these next years.

By the way, the house is in Provo, we decided to stay here so Bart won't have to commute again. We would love for you to come visit and help us plan our renovations but we don't have any seating yet.

Guess What...

We BOUGHT a house!  That is why I haven't be able to blog...we don't have the internet set up, or television and for a couple days we didn't have water or heat. I will post pictures as soon as I can.



I am now in my last semester of school. I am doing my rotations in a variety of places like a family practice office, women's health, gastroenterology, dermatology and pediatrics.  I am very busy so it's a good thing Bart has hundreds of new house projects.