I was going to put a span of years in the title, but I know people would just argue over it. How long has this remodel been going on? That's honestly a tough question to answer. We bought the house knowing we would want to make changes, but that wasn't financially feasible right after we bought the house. But it has begun, and this is the story...at least from my point of view.

Even though this has been very slow to happen, along the way we did lots of small things. Usually only getting them half done. Like when we removed the above ground pool that the previous owner had dug a huge hole for. Yes, they tried to make an above ground pool an in-ground pool. No, it didn't work well. Yes, we had a huge pit in our back yard for years. We did have to do a small project to get the converted garage up to code so that it could be counted as living space so that we could get enough funds from a refinance to cover the scope of what we wanted to undertake.

But again, all that has happened and we're kicking off. Here's the "before" video.