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Update! Update! The stars have aligned and finally our contractor has started work on our house! Hoooooooray!!!! Sooooooooooooo excited!!!!! Can you tell????? I will post some better before, during and after pictures, but I was so excited to share these preliminary pictures with you.  Oh, by the way I didn't tell you what we are doing here... lol.  I'm so excited I'm losing myself here. The sun room is not original to the house.  In fact, while we were doing some work to the crawl spaces under the sun room and kitchen we discovered the foundation of what looked like a small porch off the back of the house.  Along the way, I guess the back porch, back steps and a small patio were removed to extend the kitchen and make a small sun room. See pictures { here } and   { here } . I guess, the architect/contractor that added the sun room to the house did not pitch the roof properly and therefore it was a bit too flat...

Things have been a bit slow lately over at the new digs.  We have been waiting for our final plans from our architect on the design of the new kitchen area (we received them!).  We were waiting for quotes from three places for the kitchen cabinets and we finally got the last one yesterday.  We are also waiting on some quotes for a new heating system in the house which will unify the 3! different types of heat that currently exist- convection, steam and electric.  Now I know Rome wasn't built in 3 days, but it is a bit hard to deal with down time when we were going a million miles per hour.  It feels like we got so much done and then came to a screeching halt.  A few weeks ago, when we were neck deep in a thousand projects, we decided to take a field trip to check out some granite for our humongous new island in our kitchen.  We had a few ideas in mind, but were completely blown away by the number of choices out there. We went into t...