Finally, we begin

The house is ours, and the first of the holidays that round out the year is over. Now it's time to settle down and begin work in earnest. Tonight we're simply going to go over to the rat hole and take a look around, deciding what needs to be explored, what needs to be done first, what can be done simultaneously. I guess it's a quick and dirty planning session. While we're figuring that out, we'll begin cleaning. Well, we'll probably start that tomorrow. The place definitely needs a good cleaning, especially the bathrooms. *shudder* We bought plenty of gloves and other supplies.

For a while we were considering putting in wood floors right away, since there's a sale on the flooring we want, but we just don't know enough yet to want to make that purchase. So, carpet it is, at least for the moment. That way we won't have to worry about ruining our floors as we work. We can also put off making some of the structural decisions, since the carpet will be temporary.

We decided that we'll scrape the money together to try and stay in our apartment through mid-January. It was just going to be too difficult to try and clean and repair the rat hole on top of packing up, moving, and cleaning the current place on top of the holiday preparations.

We'll start posting pictures again as work progresses.