remodel | Nancy Tanner

Thank you to our many visitors in the past two days, even you wise crackers asking for medical marijuana for your hang nails! Friendly faces and mini tours put some awesome energy into this space!

So we are moving along at a pace that makes me smile. I am so excited about the progress and so dam tired at the same time. Yesterday was a 16 hour day for Spore and I. My kids worked all morning over at the facility, took a break and then I flip flopped then back and forth. They amazed me, they always do! Again, this is normal for them, which kind of borders Stockholm Syndrome type of parenting in a way, but hopefully a good way?!

While Spore finished all of the demo work, he also framed in a cool storage closet and equipment room. Ladies, I now have a 5 X 14 ft. walk in closet, and a 5 X 7 ft. equipment/ball area, WOOP! It was sheet rocked last night.

The dark navy paint is now a thing of the past. Renn loves to do the KILLZ paint jobs, no precision, just getting rid of old color.

Doors primed a rose color, the Hot Tamale Red went on late last night.

As construction goes, nothing is straight forward. What appears to be a paint and hang type of task, turns into a mini remodel. I just follow my husbands lead as he never stresses, he just gets it done. The only straight forward thing that happened in the past two days is our new mirror coming in. Mike from Bozeman Glass came over, sized up the project, let us know what he had in stock, and Friday morning our new 7 X 10 foot mirror will be delivered and installed. He made that project so easy, Thank you Mike!

We are off for another full day, the large open space gets it’s paint lift today … From here on out it is flooring, color, building, and filling the space with dog gear… then we start on the outdoor area in back!

It really doesn’t hurt to be married to a carpenter, furniture maker, welder, tiler kind of guy. In fact it’s more than handy when you need something fixed, built, or re modeled. And if you’re into training any type of competition dog sport, there is always equipment or gear that needs to designed and made. Introducing my husband, Tom Spore Meuwissen.

For 17 1/2 years we have been in one phase of remodel or another. It started when Spore gifted me a hawk & trowel the summer before our wedding so I could help him ‘old fashion’ plaster our newly remodeled house. I remember painting the night before our wedding guests were due to arrive, and thinking how grateful I was that ALL of the construction was done, for good. Yay right!

Our kids grew up thinking that bags of sand, and buckets of plaster were actually pieces of furniture, and that cans of paint were fairy TV trays. They know all of the tools by name, and can use them better than me!

This past year I finally had it, I reached my threshold, be finished, I am done with living in a construction zone. The reality is, it will never be finished until we sell our home and move into a yurt on a big piece of land, and I’m sure he would even be able to start some project out there too!

But now my husband has a cool new project to dig into, the Paws & People facility/gym. He is in pig heaven over there. The first two days have been demo work, measuring, and marking out space. This warehouse was a medical marijuana growing facility. Six growing rooms, electrical outlets everywhere, great alarm system with video feedback, and a bathroom that should have been blown up thirty years ago! Lots of walls are coming out and it’s almost all opened up. Toilet is being taken out as I write.

So here are the photos from our starting point. 2,000 working square feet inside, 4,000 square feet outside, bathroom/reception area, a separate potty area that I mowed down today, and parking for over twenty cars.

Walls still coming out, paint will be purchased in the AM, mirrors, shelves, built ins, fencing, gates, and more! Consider this ground zero…! p.s. the last photo is the view from the front door of the facility! It’s gorgeous…