New Siding/Refinished floors!

The new siding went up on the house a couple of weeks ago but we havent had the time to take any pictures of it. The front of the house doesn't really look any different than it did previously....just cleaner! We did vinyl shake on the front and dutchlap around the rest of the house. The color is cape cod gray. We will probably be getting some shutters (blk) up there soon as well as a new front door (red). Check out our fancy schmancy porch light! Love it!

Now...about the floors. We had to have the pine wood floors refinished. Originally we thought there was only some linoleum and some sticky tile on the kitchen floor so to keep to our fairly tight budget we were going to put down a wood laminate floor to keep with the theme of the house. Well when we started peeling up the floor we found under 3 subfloors- REAL WOOD! yippee! We wanted to have the kitchen darker than the floors in the rest of the house so we asked to stain the kitchen only a very dark brown. The rest of the floors were to remain as they were. Well...we get to the house on Friday night. Boy were we excited to finally see our newly stained kitchen. We unlock to door, open and look down on the living room floor....oh my god its so dark....oh my god they stained the whole floor.....oh no....WHAT DID THEY DO!?
Yep folks....the entire floor was stained dark brown.

After perusing the rooms I thought to myself "I kinda like it..." but I didnt want to say anything to Hugo since he had steam shooting from his ears. He was pissed....I was more pissed about the lack of communication rather than the outcome of it. The contactor was called and was so upset with himself that it wasnt what we wanted. We set up a time the next morning to go back and discuss our options. So we slept on it and when we got back to the house in the morning we fell in love with it. The whole thing. It looks badass! At least now all of the floors will be consistent with each other- no weird color changes.

Oh did I forget to introduce you to our new house guests? That was rude... Meet the McFlies!
Apparently when we started up our plumbing again after years of non-use we pissed off an underground fly colony from cesspoolville. They came up through open drain pipes in the house. WTF! It looked like the Amityville Horror! Flies all over our windows, walls, ceiling....PUKE! The picture I posted doesnt even do this story justice- its from a day later and also a basement window- these suckers were in each window by the hundreds on Friday.

The contractor came by and put some sticky traps up and opened up some of the windows to let them escape...luckily most of them are gone. I'm just praying we wont have any laminated flies on our freshly finished wood floors....

til next time!