Renovating our 200-year-old house, one decision at a time
We are deep into weekend two of brickwork over here. It turns out that the whole brick installation process is pretty time-consuming. Who would have guessed? Probably everyone. Ronan hopes to be done with the brick by the end of the day and then we will be ready for a beer to move onto the next project. That means it is time to make some more decisions!
As we mentioned in the last post, in this poll we will be asking all of you to determine what happens on both sides of the bump-out. Thanks so much to everyone who reached out through comments, messages, pins, and texts to offer suggestions. We loved them and think we have narrowed the choices down to two very good options. We have a feeling that this poll isn’t going to be as evenly divided as our last poll was, but we have certainly seen people miss the mark on pre-poll predictions in the past, haven’t we?
We have some good news and some bad news. I will start with the bad news. The bad news is that we aren’t done installing the brick yet. The good news is that I warned you back on the Time to make some decisions! post that Ronan and I don’t do well with timelines, so you are probably not that surprised or disappointed by the bad news. If you feel like me reminding you that you shouldn’t be surprised by our slow progress doesn’t really count as “good news”, then I agree with you. Luckily, there were actually lots of good things that happened over the last few days. Here is a rundown of things that went well and things that didn’t go so well.
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The Build Up (You are considering skipping right down to The Takeaway, aren’t you? I don’t blame you.)
Wow! What just happened?
First of all, we never expected our little brick vs. shiplap competition to be so close! We are so appreciative that so many people took the time to vote and now we are ready to get to work, but what will we be working on? The moment of truth is upon on!
As those of you who were following along closely know, after closing the poll exactly 24 hours after it started, the results looked like this:
