Washing Walls

Some of the walls (well all of them) and the doors are FILTHY!  Really gross and dirty.  Before I prime & paint them I will be cleaning them.  I am been researching videos online and found this one from DIY Network.com

How do you clean your walls?

Day, Who knows

Today we spent the entire day demoing the house.  From 10am - 4pm, we were ripping down sheet rock, tearing up the floor and taking down faux bricks in the living room.  Well they are actually 1/2 a brick.

A video will come soon.  Here are some photos:
The faux brick came down on ONE wall.  It is a lot of work.  We have to take each individual brick down.  UGH!


The bathroom from the Master Bedroom.  It looks so much bigger in person.  It's going to be nice to have that extra space!



Matt at like 4pm.  Long day of demo.  He may be going crazy at this point.

A video of this day to come soon.

Tasks to come:
- Frame Wall for bathroom
- Take down the ceiling
- Plumbers need to come to move the plumbing
- Sheet rock bathroom
- Install bathtub, toliet, vanity and linen closet.

More videos

The bathroom is moving ahead.  It is gutted.  Here are some videos from the house - catching it up.

Video Day 1 - House


Day 2 - Bathroom


Day 3 - Bathroom



Day ?? Bathroom



Bathroom Video


There are more videos.  Hopefully to come this week.  I hope to get there this weekend and do some demoing too!

Demo Photos

We try to take as many photos as possible.  Here are a few from the Bathroom Demo from Sunday!  We took down the wall from the bathroom to the master bedroom closet.

Here is the wall prior to taking it down.  Look at ALL that wood paneling... UGH!
 
Here is the room with the wall down!
 
Matt sitting in the bathroom.  Taking a quick break.
 
View from the bedroom into the bathroom.  AWESOME tub huh?
 
Another view of the bathroom through the Master Bedroom.

When we took the wood paneling off...we found these flowers on the sheet rock.  We are thinking Kathy put them there when the bathroom was redone last.  :)  Matt sent photos to his mom to show her. 

Toliet Day

Here is a video from Matt from a few days ago and taking out the toliet.  He gives you some good advice.

Bathroom - Recap

I, Lacey, will be doing most the text posting and photo posting.  Matt is the video guy.  We will be documenting the progress of updating this house through videos & photos.  We have already started the process.

Renovation 1: The Bathroom

This house has ONE bathroom. And in bathroom standards today, it is TINY!  Sitting on the toilet your knees basically touch the bathtub or if you are taller they do.  The bathtub is OLD and blue.  We really do have a fear it will fall through the floor. 

What has been done so far....
Currently, the door has been removed (and saved to be resurfaced and reused), the vanity is out, the light fixture above the mirror is gone, the mirror and medicine cabinet is torn out, towel rack is gone, no more toilet paper holder, the molding around the door frame and window have been removed. 

What's to come....
Next step, taking down the walls and extending it 2 feet into the master bedroom closet.  Now, we are losing the master bedroom closet, BUT we will have a larger bathroom AND we'll have a WALK-IN CLOSET!! Dream, swoon, TG!

Photos and Videos to come this weekend!