Good Bye Wall

The past 2 1/2 weeks we've been busy at work but I haven't taken many pictures. Paul and Will came over to help us last week and we finished taking down the wall in the kitchen. There is now a toilet in our kitchen.

After removing the shower, we discovered that some of the subflooring is rotting away from water damage. So since we have everything up, we're going to patch good portion of that. The bathroom was "updated" in 1979 so that's 27 years of water corrosion. Yuck. At least we caught it now while the place is destroyed and before it got really bad.

We've been removing parts of the kitchen floor in preparation for our cabinets to be delivered on May 7th. There are about 4 or 5 floors to cut through in the kitchen and it's like a rainbow of decades when removing it. We're going to try to restore the hardwoods in the kitchen...but we're not sure if it will look good since there is this tar glue from the 40s on them. Since the hardwoods are about 3/4" thick, we have a lot of room for sanding. If not, we'll just get some cheapo tiles or laminate to hold us over.

This weekend's goal is to finish the basement stairs (almost there) and to finish cutting out the floor we need to move. We'll probably also have to fix that subfloor. I don't think there is enough hours in a weekend to do this, but we'll see.

Still Doing the Stairs!

This weekend was a lazier one. Saturday, James had his last class until the middle of September! Yey! I don't know what we're going to do with ourselves having Daddy home 2 days in a row EVERY week! I guess we'll finally get our kitchen done - that's what we're going to do!

James continued prepping the stairs. He just added some support to new places since we're changing the layout of the stairs. We have all the parts and hopefully, cross the fingers, should finish up the stairs this coming weekend. I actually made plans with some mother friends so I can get out of the house with Ben and Tom Saturday morning so James can actually do work without me bothering him.

In other home improvement news, we're getting our dumpster today! Yey! I'm so excited. Now I can put the garbage that has been accumulating in our backyard in the dumpster and the neighbors won't call us trash anymore!

Back to Work!

The fun and excitement of Ben's birthday has ended...well at least when it comes to our free time. Ben is busy playing with all his new toys.

Today, we cut out our front closet to make it the entrance to the basement. This way, we'll be able to board up the current door to the basement so we can (cross the fingers) have room to put the 11 cabinets we ordered!!

We Ordered Cabinets!

We are cooperating with George W's request of going out and spending money to avoid a recession and get the economy booming! We finally bought our cabinets today! Surprisingly, we did not go with the cheapest ones possible (many people believe I am cheap - but I say I'm frugal). We like them. We have to live with them for most likely the rest of our lives, so we said "hey! Let's get something we like!" We'll get them in 5 weeks which will give us time to build a new staircase, tear down a wall, move the sink, move the oven, and maybe paint? We'll try to sleep somewhere in between all these projects too.

I'm a True Desperate Housewife

Moving into this house that needs work has seriously cut into my internet time, my tv time, and of course, my bon bon eating time. What is a housewife to do?

Well today, I just could not stand the carpet in the dining room anymore. So it's gone. Here are some pictures. I've removed all the staples and the carpet gripper board. I cut my knuckle, but I have to say, it was all worth it.

James has no idea I did this. We said that we were going to pull up the carpets last - that is, after everything else was done (mostly painting). Well this carpet has apparently been down since 1980. It was time to get rid of it. I feel happy.