01 August 2006

House #3 or the Old house

This is a matter of symantaics...Lori and I refer to our houses as #s 1,2,3 while the teen-agers with their all-knowing, random, and/or exitential brains refer to them as the Old, Old Old and the Old Old Old house with the rental we had here thrown in for good measure.
House #3 was the one we left when we move here. It was at 1680 East 1220 North. For those of you outside of Utah...we use a grid system for addresses. So we were almost to the 17th block to the east of Main St and on a street that would be about the 12th block north of Center St. So we were in the north east part of the city. Very easy to get around. We lived here for 4 years form 2001 until the end 2005 when we left.
We made some changes in every part of the house from painting the outside and removing trees/bushes to painting everything inside to changing almost every light fixture to updating the plugs to adding shelves to basically gutting the basement and finishing it right before we moved. A few examples follow including Meg's bedroom, the basement, the kitchen and the living room/dining room. Enjoy.
Here is the original basement. The room on the right was behind the cabinets of the left picture.
Then is the longtime -in- progress basement with no drywall, carpet, or ceiling. Where the theater seats are has not been wired yet. These pictures were from the end of August 2005. Next is the final product on December 28. We actually didn't even start this until the first of October after we made the decision to move. The electrial was finished at the end of October. A lot of work in a short period just to leave it for someone else to enjoy. Lori says she knows some of what the Mormon pioneers (including my 3rd great- grandfather) felt when they had to leave the places they had struggled for in Nauvoo and be driven west.

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