Still working on walls and the kitchen

I want to apologize in advanced because this post will be a little long. We have been working nonstop on the house trying to get it ready for when our baby is born in January. So let's get to it...

If you remember from two posts ago, I had pulled out the cabinets and rearranged them. Well then we found 2 old exterior door openings (which now open into Bedroom 3). I've posted a picture of the house layout again so you can have something to refer to so you know what exactly you are looking at and then below that is a picture of the door openings exposed.

So the next step for the door openings was to be blocked in to match the rest of the concrete walls, but because I needed a new outlet for the oven (the one that was there was extremely dangerous, frayed, tube wiring) and outlets for the counter and Freezer that will go in the corner. I forgot to take a picture of what the door openings looked like with sheetrock in them but you get the point.

I hadn't totally taken out the all the cabinets so I had to finish doing that. The uppers were the only thing left. They were kind of though due to them being nailed into the concrete walls but with the help of my mother-in-law and my brother-in-law we were able to get them off.

You can see in the picture above that we found another door opening (on the left, covered in plywood). Obviously we won't be using this door opening either because it opens into the stairway which is our door opening for the master bedroom.

The only cabinets we kept on the East side of the kitchen were one set of lowers. You can see in the picture below that my mother-in-law moved the stove into the kitchen. We were just checking out our options but me and my husband decided we would keep the layout of the house the way we had it, so in that corner will eventually be my pantry.

This next part makes me so sad because these floors are going to be the death of me. In the kitchen, and basically every bedroom, is this old tile that was glued down with tar. TAR! This stuff is not easy to take off. We first tried with a floor scrapper which consists of a razor on a pole but then it started to get really hard to get off. We're thinking it was because of high traffic areas. My brother-in-law ended up taking over, his muscles are a little bit bigger than mine. He worked for about an hour and a half and got most of it off the floor but if you look in the pictures below you can see that there is tar still on the floor. If anyone has any idea on how to get this stuff up please let me know. The more I researched it the more I found out that it has to come up because we will not be able tile on top of it.

Anyway, I'll step away from that sore subject and show you guys progress on the walls. So the first room I want to show you guys is Bedroom 3, the baby's room. The closet isn't up in it yet but will be up later.

The room to the North of the nursery, if you are still referring to the layout picture I posted at the beginning, is the bathroom. Below is a picture of what it looks like right now. It doesn't have the wall built for the bathtub or the wall for the door, that will also be worked on soon.

I tried to take an angled picture in the kitchen so you can see the bathroom in the left hand side, Bedroom 2 kinda towards the left center (there's a wall in the way of the view of the bedroom), and then the entrance to the hallway that goes to the laundry room and Bedroom 1 on the right.

 So that's it for now, hope I didn't take too long trying to explain our progress. Let me know what you think.


SteffaneB