The Rowdy Roberts: Our first big renovation project and the BIG 30!

Today I’m 30. I am not scared or nervous about what this decade has in store for me, but rather excited. We’ll welcome our first born, we’re doing our first major renovation, and I’m sure there is much much more good to come!

I feel like in your 30’s you are really able to come into your own. You know yourself better, you’re hopefully making more money than you did in your 20’s, and you should be more content with yourself. I feel that the older I get and I hope it just continues.

I have fantastic family and friends and my support system is amazing. 30 will be amazing!

Here I am, 30 years old, large and in charge!! Haha

Now, onto the renovation stuff!

This weekend was rough. I probably shouldn’t have done as much as I did, but you know I can’t help myself. A baby belly won’t slow me down!!

We emptied the main areas of our house of all furniture and tore out all the damn carpet. I was disgusted. I’m so happy they’re gone. To think that our child would have been crawling on them skeeves me out. The tile by the front door is gone, and all the carpet tack strip and nails have been removed from the subfloor. Thank goodness we’re having someone else do the install because I was exhausted by the end of demo day. Again, I probably shouldn’t have done as much as I did. My older sister questioned me and asked if I was actually ripping out carpets and of course I lied because she doesn’t even like it when I go to my workout classes.

Monday we had a snow day so the house projects rolled on! We painted all the doors in the house and I also started painting the fireplace. The surround is done, but I couldn’t do the mantle because we have to use a deglosser on it first so that the paint will stick to the finished wood. Very toxic, Ben is doing it while I’m at work today. So tonight I’ll put on the new door hardware (going from brass to oil rubbed bronze) and I’ll paint the mantle. Meanwhile Ben has to work on detailing the step up from our sunken family room up onto the kitchen/dining room level. It used to have carpet on it, but now it will look like a normal step. Why the people that built the house didn’t do this is beyond me.

And here are some pictures!!

The family room after demo (notice the fireplace)