Small changes but still seeing progress

Compared to what we had done before what I'm about to talk about, it seems as if we took a lot of time off, but I think what most people don't realize is that when you are re-doing a house it takes a lot of time. If you want to make sure it is done properly and you don't want problems further down the road, that takes extra time. None the less, after we finished the ceiling and the floors in the bathroom we were ready to see that baby come to life. The first thing that came in was our bathtub and ohhhhhh is it niiiice.

I didn't want to get out of it! It's the perfect size for two people who want to relax and take a big bubble bath. But I couldn't just lay there, we had to get work done! So the next thing on our check list was to clear out the soon-to-be closet (originally a bedroom). We had to remove carpet and carpet padding and we thought we were going to uncover more beautiful 40 year old hardwood floors but sadly they were covered in 20 year old green vinyl.

We decided to leave them in that state for the time being and use that room to keep our tools and such in. On to the next item on the check list! The banister. At this point the stairway was encased by floor to ceiling walls with a small doorway to let you into the upstairs, we decided to change all of that. We knocked down the walls, saving what wood we could and turned it into a half wall.

Just to let you know it is not completed in this picture. We did cover it with drywall later but we'll get to that at a different day. So the reason that we couldn't salvage the wood from the wall that we previously had was due to termite damage that had happened 30 years before we got the house. Thankfully the damage was localized in one small portion of the house and was able to be fixed/replaced. Well that's all for today folks, until next time.

Steffane B