We bought a new house that we didn’t mean to buy…. Really. My wife and I meant to buy a rental house, but due to some external/internal factors (pregnancy!) our rental house has become our house.

When that switch was made, we changed the plan of what we would be doing or how much we would be doing to the home to make it livable for our family – personal touches that a renter might not want or might not want to pay for.

Normally, I do most of the work on my home myself, but with my regular work schedule, the impending baby, and our move-in timeline, I had to hire a number of contractors to help. I worked in tandem with each (except the roofing crew) and although we did not get the house finished by the planed move in date, we were close.

Follow along as I detail :

New doors: 2:04
Wall and roof framing: 3:30
A fire place insert: 7:19
All new modern HVAC: 8:13
A new electrical panel and new circuits: 8:29
Removing walls: 9:00
Opening up the kitchen/living room: 9:39
A new steel roof: 11:37
Solar system installation: 15:35
And a fresh coat of exterior paint: 17:02

This is the 1st video in a planned series of 6, but there may be a few more here and there, as we add to the house, update the yard, and live our lives here.