so we have been in the house since may 2004, but we were still frantically working on it until september since we were on an historic allentown walking tour so we couldnt have it looking like a work-in-progress for that. we agreed to be on the tour mainly to give ourselves a deadline, otherwise, we may have just moved in and never finished many projects.

here is the before

some middles:

tearing down the second floor

putting up some new framing

i’ll spare you the hundreds of other pictures of progress and cut to the “now” pic:

we still have quite a few projects to finish…the yard, the master bathroom, the basement, unpacking random boxes….but we are pretty much projected-out for now :D but to the person who is not given access to see behind some closed doors, it looks done!