It’s not much, but progress is progress, I say!I’ve shown you my living room before now and then.

Still, there always seems to be a reason to delay progress, isn’t there?I’m sure there are enough of you in these same shoes.

Every time we think we’ve found our next big project, it’s either not really a convenient time (like tearing down a bathroom with a tiny baby in the house), or we think “Well if we’re going to do that project, then we might as well do this one, and that one, and that one over there too.” And then there are those that just sit there for no good reason.Eek.. Well earlier this Spring, I started really getting the itch to make this living room not make me shudder.So I’ve been slowly tackling it in 10 minute increments when I can get Jack to be happy enough in the Jolly Jumper for a little bit.

It took a long time, but it got the job done!Here’s how the room used to look..

This was just a little while after we moved in three years ago.

It doesn’t look too too terrible in this picture, but that’s because I was trying to not make it look too too terrible.Yup, that’s for real.

When the roof used to leak, pieces of cement board would fall out and land on the stairs below.Thankfully this is just in a back hall leading down to the basement that we don’t use very often, so it’s not a high priority.

It definitely reinforces my point that our house is far from perfect though, doesn’t it?.Scary Basements.