What Have We Done!?! (What we have done)

Home renovation has a lot in common with pottery or glassblowing or any number of skills where the creation of interconnected parts is core to the final product. Often times you find yourself needing to clamp on a new piece of wood or screw in a new support bracket that in no way will be part of the final product, but is vital in the moment to ensure that a physical structure has the integrity to last long enough to reach finalization.  That brings me to drywall.  We've been putting a lot of holes in walls. *** For those of you that watch the videos, you know that we employed a guy named Barry (not to be confused with the man named Kevin) to do some emergency electrical work at the time of move-in to remediate some dangerous choices the previous owner had made including 1) Not having GFCI breakers tied to the kitchen (this allows electrical outlets in the kitchen to function safely even though it's a wet zone) and 2) safely replace an instance where two live wires were twiste...

There's been so (clap emoji) much (clap emoji)  happening (clap emoji) with the house over the last 3 weeks that I haven't even had time for a post so here's a post about what happened just this afternoon. When we moved in January all our rugs got rolled up and taped for travel (as is tradition) and since the new place has carpeting (kinda sorta, nothing to brag about) we have been happy to have the rugs standing in the front coat closet as we tried to discern some sort of design layout for all this chaos. We're on the verge of turning one of the secondary bedrooms (which has been a box storage/tool room) into more of an office space for Brie to use but it's one of the few rooms without carpet, just some 60 year old asbestos vinyl flooring, so the rugs now seemingly have a purpose. HOWEVER These rugs all spent 4 years in a 700ft basement apartment with 1+ dogs and all but one of them came from Knoxville and a cat/dog situation. These rugs have earned their combined ...