I realized after 4 years of not blogging and looking back that there are a few pictures of the house I want to show. First of all the house started out as a Dance Hall for those of you who didn't know that already. First we had to move the box trailer we had bought to store all of our items in. Yes everything we own is in that trailer while he was moving it. All furniture and clothing that we were not using at the time. It was packed pretty much to the ceiling! Since we couldn't find anyone to move it a whole 100 feet my husband moved it with his pick up and the help of a great friend Kevin. The bed was filled with blocking and yes the legs are down but just off the ground, just in case the trailer slid off the truck. It was chained but this way we knew it would only ruin the bed sides!! Crazy and I have a video on you tube!

Before moving in and the last few weddings that happened here we 

stripped the hard wood floors and refinished them.

 This is what the kitchen started out as. It was a long 3 years before we 

found some used windows to allow in some light!!

 Next step was to get the 2 stall bathroom into 1 whole house bathroom.

This is what it looked like in the beginning!

 We left the toilets as long as we could while tearing everything out no a great picture here.

 Everything out and fixing the floor and running new plumbing!!

 Flooring going down!!

Extra insulation. That is 2" foam boards!

 Getting ready for the new leach field!

 Picture above is where the leach field is. Below are my 3 kids all inside the bucket and playing in the dirt!

The days of the orphanage! All our friends that visited during this time would see the kids beds lined up and say it looked like an orphanage and it did but the kids loved it!

Finally making progress on the bathroom and able to use it at this point!!!

Starting the first remodel of the kitchen there just was not enough counter

space and not at all set up as we wanted it to be.

Late summer project make sure the north wall is insulated if nothing else this wall needed to be insulated as the house sits in a field and we get a lot of wind!

We also wanted a place to store our toys and outdoor things so we put a car port on the trailer that was also being used as storage.

Now back to building bedroom walls! This is the wall on the opposite side of the house from all the other bedrooms. 

Here is to the start of what felt like the never ending dry wall! 

That frame on the floor I build as a reading bench that was going to go in 

that corner by the bookshelves Updated picture below!. 

 Reading bench in place and bookshelves being built!

The start to daylight in the kitchen!!! This is the first window we installed in the kitchen. 

We bought it at an auction for $5 we knew we could always replace it later on

when we had the money and before we did the siding!

A year or so later we found these windows at the dump for free! MORE light in the dark corner!!

They have some water marks on the inside but just like the other one we can replace it down the road!

Here is the pantry we built with doors on it! 

I believe there is another post about building it!

These over head cabinets were making the kitchen feel closed in sooooo....

 Out they came! 

The summer of 2015 time to get this place insulated on the other walls!

As you can see there was insulation in the walls they just picked and chose where 

they put it! LOL

 Insulation all in and plywood. Before there was no plywood! 

It was amazing the house stayed as warm as it did!

This construction and more took place over 5 years. It was a long hard five years of all work and no play. We choose to complete on major project each summer and did little updates or additions inside during the winter! We have put a lot of blood sweat and tears into this home. My next post will show you what we did in the summer of 2016.