Woof week 4 and we are definitely starting to feel the pain. Its never easy to feel like you keep adding to the list faster than you can cross it off. I feel like I live at home depot. This week kind of felt like we were running on a treadmill. We had every intention of going somewhere, and it sure felt like we ran a marathon, but we looked up and found ourselves in the same place that we started. Our turning point was getting most of the wall tile in the bathroom. This was a huge morale boost for us. Finally something going up, not coming down! The gleaming white tiles made a huge difference in the feel of the tiny bathroom. No more dingy Pittsburgh Toilet (For those of you aren’t yinzers, a Pittsburgh toilet it just a toilet and sink just chillin’ wide open in the basement so that people coming in from the steel mills and mines could clean up without getting the house dirty). It does feel like we are rounding a corner, hopefully next week will start to really show the end result.
Continue reading “Euclid Street Airbnb Week 4: Bathroom Tile and a Million Small Jobs”Euclid Street Airbnb Week 3: Bathroom Basics and Kitchen Backsplash
We are still catching up from repairing all the lovely things we found beneath the layers and old drywall. We didn’t get to the tile, but we are very close. Kasey spent a lot of time in the bathroom this week fixing plumbing, bathroom fans, GFI outlets and getting new hardy backer wallboard up!
Continue reading “Euclid Street Airbnb Week 3: Bathroom Basics and Kitchen Backsplash”Euclid Street Airbnb Week 1: Progress Update and the Full Before Tour
Week 1 is behind us! So far we are 100% on track. Below is the check list and the pictures of our progress! We got all of our hobby stuff out of the “airbnb-to-be” space and into their new homes!
WEEK 1: Wine Room and Workshop Displacement
Clear out our stuff from the side storage roomScrub and Kilz paint the walls and floorRebuild shelving structure to full use space and create room for wine equipmentAdd a double basin sink. This includes connecting a drain up to the main stack (luckily right next to it. We are also lucky to have water hook ups.Move wine making table and equipment into the new roomGet electricity run to the garageMove work bench to garage, along with toolsLook at flooring options (vinyl laminate, laminate, or ceramic tile, refinished concrete floor)
Visiting Five Airbnbs in Six Days: Tips from a guest for hosting a successful airbnb
As we continue on our journey to hosting an airbnb, we decided that the best way to understand what we needed to do with our place was to get out there and try a bunch. We have stayed at airbnbs before, but never with the mindset of starting our own. It was time to take a trip and see what there was to learn. With our bikes in tow, we headed down to Kentucky bourbon country. The plan was to bike to a new town or city each day, tasting bourbons along the way and staying at airbnbs. 5 airbnbs, 6 days, 165 miles on our bikes. We explored Kentucky’s rolling hills meandering through cornfields and by full tobacco barns. Black rail fences and pastures of horses guided us along to the tall bourbon rick houses where we learned about and tasted the sweet corn whisky. After a long day on the bike, a clean comfortable place to rest and relax was a welcome sight. Here is a list of the things we appreciated and came to expect from an airbnb, and also some of the things we decided we didn’t like.
Freelancing to Freedom… An Engineer’s Perspective
Something that really appeals to me is a life that is flexible. I love to travel and anytime I am too regimented in a schedule, I start to feel restless. It might be that the future is consequently laid out before me, like watching the same movie over, and over, and over. Either way, having supplemental income that can travel with me could be very conducive to a lifestyle that I want. Let’s see where we might start freelancing as an engineer.