Also, say goodbye (sniff, sniff) to some gorgeous plants. This giant dogwood tree has to go because we're too cheap to transplant this monster - if any of you environmentalists out there would like to move it for us, or perhaps as part of a horticulture class at a career center or college, you are WELCOME to move it!
This sweet little azalea will meet its end soon, too...but I'm not quite as upset - the rest of the year, it just looks like a weedy plant.
There's another azalea that has the really pretty big blossoms on it, and it's ENORMOUS - the second biggest shrub that we have - but it hasn't bloomed yet this year. I AM a little sad to see it go, but azaleas are a dime a dozen in our yard (see this post).
As for the construction itself, we have A LOT less money now and only a dumpster to show for it. Excuse me, Steve Carter, a container. And thanks for the container :) Now we wait for the city permits...
So here are some before shots, nothing too exciting. The window in the shower will have to go because the wall to our new bedroom will be behind it (who puts a window in a shower anyway?), and we're going to do a somewhere-between-short-term-and-long-term tile job on it. We have some plans to make this bathroom wheelchair-accessible, but it will be a complete ceiling-to-floor, taking-out-walls-and-closets, moving-cabinets-and-sink process, and we're not prepared to do that at this point.
Our new bedroom, bathroom, and walk-in closet will be here, on the back of the house, where those two windows on the right are.
And this is one of the two bedrooms that Russell and I use - the one we sleep in, the one that houses Russell's clothes, and the one in which our dressers are...soon to be the hallway to our new bedroom and a laundry room. Why aren't laundry rooms near bedrooms in most houses? I'm campaigning for some type of laundry chute through the wall, and I'm pretty sure Ryan (our builder) and Russell think I'm crazy. We'll just see about that. Imagine what you see here with a wall where the end of our bed is, and that's the laundry room/the storage that we don't have anywhere else in the house.
Again, put a wall up along the end of our bed, take out the window and wall, and you have the hallway to our new room.
It's springtime - things are a-changin', inside and out!
That's exciting!
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