It’s been quite some time since we last did an update — seems to be July 2022 was the last. We did take some time off from home renovations in August, with a couple weeks in Wisconsin doing our annual Door County and visit to Milwaukee/Mequon. Then, in October, another couple weeks in Florida. And we’ve spent the Christmas and New Year holidays back in Milwaukee/Mequon.
November 20th marked one year since moving to the Olive Street house. We are super happy with the progress made so far, with the main floor being 95% complete. We really enjoyed decorating the outside of the house for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and even did a little bit of decorating inside as well.
Since last posting an update, we’ve completed the front “sun room,” the hall bath and the living room fireplace as well as hung all the doors (still needing a final painting though as the first one was a bit rough.) The master bath is halfway done, with tiling of the shower and painting the trim remaining. You can see additional images in the Gallery (Interior Main Floor) for the hall bathroom, sun room and fireplace. We will look to update the reveal pictures soon as we hope to get the kitchen floor tile completed in January.
One additional step made was the demolition of a non-load bearing brick wall in the basement. Peder ran the jack hammer while Laura and Matthew took turns carrying the buckets up the stairs and dumping the bricks into the dump trailer. This was our test for additional interior basement wall demo. Since we now have a functioning one and a half baths on the main floor, the next step will be to demo the basement bath.
Olive Pit 2 Perfect 