Hello World!

I can't remember the last time I sat down to write full fledge post. This last year, I took a sabbatical from the Steem blockchain only to find myself moving on to HIVE and never looking back.

So What's Up?

So the last few months have been pretty intense. We moved to a new place in November only to fall in love with a house that we finally purchased last month. So 2 moves in less than 6 months all the while having a new addition to our family: Theodore Livingstone Gagne

But I digress, we are in full renovation mode and I wanted to share some picture of the process. So as I said, we bought this house which we think was built in 1865. We got super lucky. We got our mortgage right at the perfect time when the rates were going down but the preferential rates from the bank were good. So we ended up catching a crazy mortgage rate: 1.55%!!!!! (If you are looking for a good mortgage broker let me know, the one I have is awesome)

So before we move in we had to at least redo the floors because it came in with the old mastic under the vinyl flooring the previous owners took out.

So at first we tried taking out that horrible stuff on the floor with vapor using a wallpaper machine. Which ended up being an horrible mess of glue and cardboard.

Half of the room took me 6 hours and I didn't manage to take out all the melting glue...so after a bunch of research I decided to rent a floor polisher with a mastic remover drum. Now we are talking! Still took me about 10 hours to finish the living room and dining room.

Now that that horrible gunk was out I had a choice to make. Should I do the whole jump of sanding and finishing on my own??? After talking with friends and looking at my trusted youtube channel for home renovations(Renovision DIY), we decided to bite the bullet and pay professionals to do the rest. We already saved a lot of costly labour time and I knew I could not make this floor look good with my skill level.

Here are the results:

I'm particularly happy about that last one image, this is going to be my office. Those old pine floorboards that are more than a hundred year old have the most incredible colour to it. 🤗

Now we are not out of the woodwork just yet but that's a foretaste of what we have been up to.

Question

Are there any die hard DIY renovation guys and gals here? Should we start a community?
Let me know in the comment section.