Windows and Plumbing

We have finally done our first home improvement! Well second I guess. The first one was installing eight of these....

..the first night we moved in. But since then we haven't done much because, we are only fixing things up as we get the money to do so.

The previous owner were in the process of replacing the windows in the house but only got a few done. Luckily the two bedrooms by the master were done and the kitchen and dining room. But the master bedroom and Kamden's room had the old windows. And let me tell you, as soon as it started to get hot outside, the master bedroom was just as hot. It has three windows in there and the afternoon sun beats down on our room. The old single pane windows from 1991 were not giving us any relieve. It would not get any colder than 86 degrees in our room, that is with the two ceiling fans and an additional fan. So we had to use the money we were saving for upgrades on windows so we would survive the summer. Here are the old windows

and this is what the windows that the previous owners had replaced.

The stucco work that they did to the windows looks a lot nicer than the old boards don't you think. I'm not a huge fan of the lines in the window panes but, we are just going with the same kind of windows they already put in so that they aren't missed matched, and we don't have the money to waste replacing perfectly good windows.

Tah Dah!!

 Here are the new windows to the bedroom, they are still missing the stucco, that is gonna have to wait a little while now, because such as life goes, the day we were having the windows installed a plumbing problem came up! We found out about this problem shortly after we moved in but we were able to put it on the back burner and get by for now because our house had two septic tanks. But since it became a problem again, we decided to just go ahead and take care of it.

So, lucky us, we get to have the septic line re piped from the tank to our patio. Isn't that exciting! It stinks to have to spend the money on it, but it is something that needed to be done, and it will be a relief to not have to worry about it anymore. Hopefully our next udgrading project will be a little more exciting. :)