The Project - Week 5: End of Deconstruction, Time for Reconstruction

I think we have finally finished tearing out things and are ready to rebuild, replace and repaint. Sounds like progress to me! This week we:

• Removed tile from the shower - I gave up trying to peel each tile off and just cut the sheet rock and muscled it off in chunks. Hard work - but perhaps a bit faster than going tile by tile.
• Removed the mirror. I would like to believe that if you break a mirror purposefully you will not have 7 years of bad luck! 
• Removed the bath fixtures so we could lift the soaking tub out of the tub surround and remove the last pieces of tile - woo hoo! I sure did a happy dance when I knocked the last one off!
• Broke up the bathroom cabinets and trundled them to the dumpster
• Reconstructed the knee wall in the kitchen. The existing one was a tad bit short.
• Had the house measured for carpet. Now we have to decide whether to carpet just the master bedroom or whether to add both upstairs rooms and/or the basement.
• Finally had two quotes for sheet rock work. The quotes came in less than we had budgeted - hooray!
• Began sanding trim in the dining room. Patched nail holes and dings, and painted the ceiling
• Hauled in 35 boxes of wood flooring - those suckers are heavy! (We still have some more in the truck - we ran out of oomph!)
• Purchased faucets for the bathroom sinks and the tub. 
• Bought the kitchen sink!

This week we didn't:

• Ride either one of the boys - picture a very sad face here!!

But, they did enjoy visiting our neighbor's pasture:

And they're off ...