Prepping the house

I forgot to post a before picture of the kitchen/bathroom in my last post so I decided to do it this time:

The wall to the right in the first picture was knocked out to make the adjacent bathroom bigger (plus we don't need an extra kitchen in our bedroom) and even though the floor in the bottom picture looks clean and ready to go it definitely was not when we pulled up the vinyl floor in the old kitchen. It was covered in tar and just awful. Anyway, after we gutted the house we had to take down the closets that were left to finish up the bedroom.

Now it was time to work on that bathroom! The kitchen that was previously there was missing the ceiling because my husbands grandfather was in the process of remodeling the kitchen so this was in need of replacing. But before we could put up a new ceiling we had to take out the old tongue and groove floor which was not repairable (plus we didn't want wood floors in our bathroom). We ripped those out and replaced them with plywood. Unfortunately in old houses much of the beams inside the walls and floors are rough cut which makes them very uneven, making our new bathroom floors very uneven. After replacing the floors, we then got started on the ceiling. Being in the middle of the summer in the South and replacing a ceiling in an old house which doesn't have any A/C made work very uncomfortable.

The boys were a big hot sweaty mess but we finally got things squared away and things were looking up.

Steffane B