The House

She's a gem, leaning 20 degrees to the east, but a gem never the less. A classic 1908 Carolina Cottage ~ 1800 square feet ~ Three bedrooms ~ Two full baths ~ a beautiful new galley kitchen, and a sturdy, impressive post & beam construction. It also came complete with an absolutely scary bug infestation, no, thankfully not termites....roaches. Millions of them. We treated it professionally several times, but there's just nothing like pulling down a twelve foot section of crown moulding and having it's long time tenants and years of their waste by product come down on top of you. Getting rid of the bugs was challenging enough, but that was just the beginning. What we would go through in the next year and a half was part of a life long dream, but one realized through back breaking labor and sacrifice beyond description. Drywall dust covered everything we owned, regardless of how many times we vacuumed.