And so it begins...

We started working on the loft Sunday! We didn’t do much at all really…I just got everything out of the middle of the floor and swept. Its amazing the difference just a little bit of cleaning will do. Joe started pulling down the peg board that is covering the side walls. He also started working on pulling up the tile floor stuff. Of course it didn’t come up as easily as we had hoped! Why would it?! So we didn’t get very far at all with that. I am going to start gathering up all the info I need to start getting to ready to talk to the historic society. For those of you who don’t know there is a group of people here in Paris that can tell you what to do and what not to do with your own, historic, property. Now I totally get that they want to keep everything historic but sometimes they can go over board and don’t let you do something because they personally don’t like it. We ran into problems with them at StarNet when we did remolding, but I can tell you they aren’t going to push me around with our building like they did StarNet. Although I really don’t see us having any problems considering everything we are wanting to do is going to be taking it back to the historical look they are going for. The only thing we are going to have a problem with is going to be the brick. Right now it is painted green….UGLY Green! (What is it with me and Joe running into ugly green paint colors….) We want to sandblast it and try to get the paint off to take it back down to the original brick color…but how easy it will be to convince them that is the right thing to do and how good it will work is a different story. The only other major thing we are wanting to do is open the windows back up….and tell me why in the world would they have a problem with that?? I just can’t wait to get started!!! We have stopped working on our house now since we are pretty much done so Saturday we got to just sit around for the first time in a LONG time. Joe enjoyed it, he took a nap, but me….well….to tell you the truth I was absolutely totally and utterly bored out of my mind!!! I don’t like to just sit around and not do anything you know…I like doing stuff. But I know once we get started working and doing all this hard work all over again I am going to wish we were done!
I'll add some pictures along the side tonight or tomorrow. Keep an eye out for em..