After years of complaining about the way that our living situation looks, my partner and I are finally making some changes and improvements around the home.
We moved into this small farmhouse far outside of the city nearly ten years ago with the hopes of fixing some things up to make it feel more like our own, but with work and all of the other surprises of life we had completely put it off.
Now that we have finally put the excuses aside and have made some significant changes however, we are wondering how we didn’t make any of these changes sooner. One of the many things that I was determined to do was ditch the fireplace in the living room as our main heating source and have a modern heated gas furnace installed instead. I love the look that the fireplace gives to the home, but the dry and polluted air it tends to create has really messed with my allergies as of late. Fortunately for us I have a cousin who lives in the city that works as an HVAC service tech, and with his help and the benefit of the “relative discount” we were able to obtain and install our brand new heated gas furnace all for a cheap price. Once we had that checked off our list we have now started to remodel the kitchen so it looks like we aren’t stuck in the 1980’s anymore. We still have a long way to go before we will be 100% satisfied, but so far I am pretty damn proud of the hard work we have put in.