Oh, My!! It's Been Crazy Around Here!!

And wayyyyy too long for a post.

So, we got the hallway wall down next to the master bathroom and found some mold on the bathroom drywall.  We actually have been very lucky as we have not had that much mold, especially since this house was empty with bullet holes in the windows allowing all that moisture to come inside.

This is the new bathroom wall for the time being!!  Privacy, what privacy??

We also got the wall down on the backside of the bedroom closet that is noe going to be living room as soon as the closet is removed.

We got my bed moved from the large bedroom that is now going to be my office into the small bedroom and is going to be part of the Guest suite (my bedroom and bathroom unless we have guests.

This is the wall between the master bathroom and the master bedroom.  We are knocking out the bedroom closet and making the bathroom larger with a closet in the bathroom.  The master suite area is Kelly's area so he can have some privacy and some room.  I tend to take up most of the house with all my quilting and crafting stuff!!  Now we just need to frame in the new wall and new door into the bathroom.

This is one of the temporary electrical junctions that the electrician has placed so we can still have some electricity while he is working on the new lines.  The electrician is coming over one or two days a week and so at this rate we are not going to have a full house of electricity until well into February if not March!!  It has been so frustrating because the electrician keeps putting other jobs in front of ours and then finally told me a couple of days ago he was doing us a big favor by even doing our job!!  Ya gotta love small towns with very few tradesmen and not really great tradesmen.  So, all in all we have the best guy for the job but he is very busy!!  We feel lucky and have decided to quit complaining about how long it is taking!!

Here is the closet side of the wall that is being removed to enlarge the living room.  The walls in the living room have all had 2 layers of drywall!!  What the heck??

Now here is the inside of the scary bathroom.

Next post I'll show you what the floor is looking like in that scary bathroom.  We do know we are going to need to remove the flooring and the sub-flooring, but we are hoping the floor joists are in good condition!!

See ya next time and I won't wait so long to post an update!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!

We'll we have been in a do nothing mode for the past few weeks waiting on the electrician.  Hopefully, tomorrow we are signing the contract with him and then there is apparently a 3 day recission period so that means he won't start until NEXT week.  I am not really sure how many times I have said "until next week" but hopefully this time is for real!!

In the meantime, we got the trim painted and Kelly got the it all up around the three small windows on the Studio ~

The extension cord hanging out the window is because "we are waiting for the electrician!!"  Argghhhh!

We also got the trim painted and up on the door!!  Now for a nice looking little porch instead of the hillbilly look!!  :-)

Also, today we got a couple more walls down.  This is the first real mold we have come up against.  A big long spray of bleach, a mask and gloves while removing it will get this stuff out of here.  Behind this remaining wall is the bathroom and that is where the moisture allows for the mold to grow.

And then finally, this wall had 2 layers of drywall on this side, then the drywall on the back side plus a layer of paneling. This whole section is going to be removed totally making the living room larger and square.

More drywall tomorrow plus the building of the frame for a wall we are adding.