"Wanna spend the night at my house?" really meant, "We'll make you work in our remodel house for food." Karter and his buddy Weston had fun busting out walls.
Knocking the wall between upstairs bedrooms down...
Upstairs living room stripped down (almost)
DURING- basement- from living room looking to the south down the hallway. Drywall gone- insulation still needs to come out. Major improvement already though, huh?
Kid's living room- black stuff on vapor barrier is mold. Lovely, huh? It still smells wet down there. I think it will until all that insulation comes out. Heating and air yet to go in at time of photo (it's in now tho).
Taken from corner of little boys' room. The brick wall will stay and so will the cool western looking chandeliers. I'll clean them up and keep them. The little boys want a western/cowboy room so those fit perfectly. The built-ins will get a paint job and that brick will get a wash down. The hole where the stove pipe went for the wood burning stove will be covered up, but that brick pad where the stove sat stays. The little boys say that will be the town streets when they play farm.
We will also put some french doors in that large opening to the kids' living room.
Other corner of the little boys' room. We'll build a closet over there. They've got a HUGE space. We're excited about it.
5 HUGE dump-trailer loads hauled off so far
Kitchen and hallway- see my pretty hickory cabinets? They're ready to go in. We ust need to sheetrock!
Upstairs bathroom expanded- picture it without all the pipes in the middle. The tub will sit here, toilet will go in the corner and that other box is the shower base. I am standing where the vanity will go (you can't see me tho since I'm taking the picture). 1/4 bath will go on the other side of the shower base.
Lots of sheetrock and tile ready to go in the upstairs living room. That's what the drywall looks like when you rip the paneling off, too. That'll take some fun mud work once we get the sheetrock up in the rest of the house...
Kenyon- this little boy has worked his butt off in this house. He is always willing to help with anything and he works HARD. He loves tools and fixing and helping out. LOVE this child!
Poor guy even stepped on a nail one day. It went right through those sandals into his big toe. It was very traumatic for him and he talked about his "injury" for 2 weeks. Awwwwww!
WORKIN' HARD or HARDLY WORKIN'?
These two slackers would help for a few minutes then go play outside. They love the weed jungle and searching for grasshoppers. Told ya those weeds were just gonna get bigger....
Grasshopper hunting...
Total slacker... ;-)
Ice cream break!
Summer storm...
Results of a HUGE storm that put down a lot of water. The water came right in the windows, down into the walls and all over the floor. No wonder the insulation all along the west wall was so wet! The bathroom leak didn't help matters either. But...we'll get it worked out! It will be fixed. We now have window wells and the new windows will be installed any day now. Yay!
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