{"id":281,"date":"2007-08-23T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/downside-of-a-remodel\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:11:01","slug":"downside-of-a-remodel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/downside-of-a-remodel\/","title":{"rendered":"Downside of a remodel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mess.\u00a0 Not a little messy, a lot messy.\u00a0 I used to have a nice yard, in fact it was the reason we bought the house.<\/p>\n<p>Not so much anymore.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1216284029\/IMG_2866.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1338\/1216284029_ca72648a4c.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2866\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workers got a lot of brick laid today- that&#8217;s the good part.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217153962\/IMG_2869.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1420\/1217153962_f1d66f6bf3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2869\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good thing is next year they won&#8217;t have this nice orange spray paint<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1216297529\/IMG_2870.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1349\/1216297529_77ff5f20cc.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2870\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cement is the worst.\u00a0 While I was taking pictures Barley decided to run through it.\u00a0 No problem, I will just hose her off- except all the hoses were gone.\u00a0 Good thing she knows what it means when I say &#8220;go get in the bathtub&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217167530\/IMG_2871.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1081\/1217167530_acccbf39cb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2871\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217173372\/IMG_2872.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1009\/1217173372_1641e35b0f.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2872\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1216322773\/IMG_2874.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1415\/1216322773_2555f728ac.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2874\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217179844\/IMG_2873.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1210\/1217179844_514d7351b2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2873\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217204364\/IMG_2876.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1077\/1217204364_1dd8258d9f.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2876\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just had to document, I know it will all be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>While I was searching for pictures of what our house looked like when we bought it I found these.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217291162\/P1011204.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1182\/1217291162_34ea39e857.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1011204\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All my boys on the day Cole was born<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1216428921\/P1011356.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1364\/1216428921_917bafdd6b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1011356\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cole when he was one week old.\u00a0 He was sooooo tiny, and I was soooooo tired, we tried to snag a nap on the screened porch.\u00a0 His hair looks so dark.\u00a0 Much different than a year later on his first birthday<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217293982\/Coleat1yr.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1168\/1217293982_f550197750.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Coleat1yr\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and then on his 2nd<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/1217296558\/IMG_6170.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1219\/1217296558_0a086dfd5b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_6170\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, got a little distracted- love love love my boys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mess.\u00a0 Not a little messy, a lot messy.\u00a0 I used to have a nice yard, in fact it was the reason we bought the house. Not so much anymore. The workers got a lot of brick laid today- that&#8217;s the good part. Good thing is next year they won&#8217;t have this nice orange spray paint The cement is the worst.\u00a0 While I was taking pictures Barley decided to run through it.\u00a0 No problem, I will just hose her off- except all the hoses were gone.\u00a0 Good thing she knows what it means when I say &#8220;go get in the bathtub&#8221; Just had to document, I know it will all be worth it. While I was searching for pictures of what our house looked like when we bought it I found these. All my boys on the day Cole was born Cole when he was one week old.\u00a0 He was sooooo tiny, and I was soooooo tired, we tried to snag a nap on the screened porch.\u00a0 His hair looks so dark.\u00a0 Much different than a year later on his first birthday and then on his 2nd Ok, got a little distracted- love love love my boys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[571],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-house","tag-remodel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21003,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/21003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}