1, 2, There is a lot to do!

     It's been a little while since the last update, so I apologize for the super long post. We have been mostly tearing things out, but now comes the fun part, we are starting to put things back together. 

In order to get a nice finish on the walls all of the wallpaper needed to be scrapped off for the sheet rockers to start. Any wallpaper that is to stubborn to come off must be KILZ'ed (a special primer that will make sure the wallpaper does not come up while mudding the walls). It kind of reminded me of peeling a sunburn. If you get a good spot it comes of pretty fast, but if you get a wrong spot you're there FOREVER peeling it.

Some of the walls were caving in so we had to break into them and see what was causing the problem. Of course, cement was the problem, they used it for insulation. ARGH! We had to haul buckets of cement out of the walls in order for this room to be ready for sheet rock. Luckily, Travis came up with a handy cement shoot out of 8" sprinkler pipe from the window to the bottom floor to dispose of all the cement rather quickly. :)

 This is the downstairs bathroom before it was gutted.

 

And now there is nothing. I am glad the sheet rockers are going to drywall right on top of that ugly green tile, because it is a beast to take off. We still are trying to find the shower head that popped off and landed in the toilet drain. I can hear my Dad now, "Why didn't you cover the toilet drain?" After I fish my hand down there to find it I am sure I will remember next time.

 

 

Yes this is a hole in the floor/ceiling. Before I tell the story of how this got here, I would just like to say that one of my favorite parts of all the remodels that we have done is that I get to work with my husband. Now that doesn't mean that we work side by side all the time, because I am afraid, well that just wouldn't work. We'd kill each other, but it sure is fun to laugh at our dumb mistakes.

 

So Travis asked me to help him install the drain line for the upstairs bathroom, and as we were working, he was on the other side of the wall asking if I was able to get the pipe all the way into the joint. I told him I was unsure if it went in. He was getting a little irritated and asked, "Can't you tell if it went in!" I said, "No I don't know for sure, why don't you come check!" So in frustration he got up a little to fast lost his footing and stepped through the floor/ceiling to the kitchen. We were able, after we figured out that the pipe went into the joint, to set down and have a good laugh at how heated we both got in the moment. Good times!

 

This is the bathroom that we are adding to the master bedroom.  The one they originally put in wouldn't fit a vanity and a toilet. They didn't measure right. This is Travis' first corner tub installation and I think it looks pretty good. We are going to put the vanity to the left of the tub and the toilet behind the door so you don't see it when you walk in. 

In the picture below we cut through the wall of the half bathroom into the old master bathroom so that the rooms upstairs would have a place to shower/tub.

 

So now for some of the fun part.

 

I was able to start tiling on Monday and I finished up the kitchen floor and laundry room today. It wasn't my favorite tile, but I was able to talk Home Depot down to $.60 a sq ft, so I had to use it, being that it was such a good deal. It ended up turning out better than I thought.

 

 

Now I just need to decide what color I want to paint the kitchen. If you have any suggestions let me know. The tile has a little yellow, gray, and brown in it. I love the gray walls everyone is doing so I might do a gray with a brown undertone??? or maybe almond paste.

Almond Paste

Spanish Olive

 

 

Silver Fox

 

Let me know what you think.

 

These next couple weeks things should be moving fairly quickly for the 'ol farm house. We need to move out of our house before the 2nd of July, and we are hoping to move straight into the farm house. There is a lot to do, but I am optimistic that we can get it done!