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.

It's Been Awhile . . .

We have just been puttering around for the most part while we continue to wait for the electrician but we did manage to get a fabulous door up on the Studio.  This is what the old door was supposed to look like ~

It was made out of the same material as the siding and it was very flimsy.  Since I am going to have all my quilting goodies inside, we decided to make our own door.  So, we took a solid core door blank, the hinges that were supposed to be on the garage doors (see picture above) and a real door knob and deadlock and made this ~

Now we just need to get it trimmed and re-touch the paint!!  Oh, what a difference it makes to know everything inside is safe and sound!!  Thanks Kelly for getting the door knob and dead bolt on perfectly!!

A Beautiful Winter Day in Bandon!!

The sun was out ALL day long, the temperature got up to 60 degrees and we got a lot of work done today.  Kelly is continuing his crusade to get the grounds around the house all cleaned up ~

He got all the blackberry vines and whatever else was growing on the fence removed.

Got most the tall grass weed eated down.

Fixed the holes in the fence so Annie can't escape!!

And has a pile for burning tomorrow.

This is all the hidden crap that we pulled out of the back part of the yard before Kelly removed the tall grass!!  We will need to make another run to the dump next week!!

More stuff!!

And we have no idea what this is, but it is buried so deep in the ground that I could not get it fully removed today.  We'll need to go in with a shovel tomorrow.

Then this morning I went to my Guild's Christmas party and had a ball!!  I have just met the nicest people since moving here to Bandon!!

But after I got home from partying, I painted one and half of the walls on the Studio~

You can see where it is starting to dry and it is drying a bit darker than when I put it on.  I thought though this was going to be a bit darker but I think it will be cute for the smaller building and then paint the house the same green but one shade darker!!

Looking forward to another warm sunny day tomorrow - a bit more painting and a bit more yard work!!  Maybe get inside and get that quilt top sandwiched!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  I love it when someone tells me they are following our progress!!

It's Moving Day!!

Come on over and see what I have been up to today!!  HERE!!

Time to Start Moving Into the Studio!!

This is basically what I have been living with since I moved in last June!!

It has looked worse but as I have been trying to get ready to move into the Studio, I have been straightening and cleaning as much as possible!!

But now we are ready to start moving things into the Studio!!

The floor has been swept and the carpet has started it's roll-out!!  We are going to get my work tables out of the living room and set up today and tomorrow!!

Then, once Kelly gets the back wall sealed off at the sill plate - that has been a big problem that we have been trying to fix for a week now - we hope and pray that our water leaking problem will be fixed.  Kelly dried the area with a hair dryer and sealed it will a heavy caulk bead.

Tomorrow I may be able to start being a quilter again out in my own little Studio!!  Woo! Hoo!

We're Down to One Toilet and the Kitchen Sink!!

Yesterday we tore out all the nasty cabinets and cheap tub enclosure in the what is going to be the master bathroom ~

Again, lots of spiders and mouse droppings under everything!!

We had Jordan helping us and he will be here again today to get the walls out.

Kelly got everything cleaned up so we could start work again today!

We also started tearing out the cabinets in the hallway.  This set of cabinets above will eventually be the closet inside the bathroom suite and this door in the hallway will be sealed off with the door to the bathroom coming off the bedroom you see in this picture.

Thank goodness this toilet still works!!

Well, off to tear out some walls!!