A New Work-Out Craze!

I've been thinking I won't need to actually ever work out...I'll just remodel. After pulling nails and ripping carpet and throwing around broken drywall and paneling I'm going to be pretty buff. Okay, not really. The thought is a good one though...

Pictures coming soon on my bucket o' pulled nails and carpetless livingroom :)

Ugh.

Illness sucks. I've had a yucky cold since Monday. I had hoped to get some clean up done at the house, but I've just felt to0 bad. I did find a church that will take all the old-lady belongings off my hands. I just need to call them back tomorrow to schedule a time. Sadly enough, my only free time is looking like Sunday. I doubt they'll be willing to do a pick up on their day of rest. Maybe I can swing it on Saturday afternoon/evening. We shall see!

After the purge, I get to pull up 35 year old carpet! That's not going to suck in any way whatsoever :)

Demolition!

I took the kidlets down to the new house to show them the changes that were being made. I heard, from more than one child, "For the love of God, what DID YOU DO???" Once I explained it was necessary to rip out walls so they could have privacy (foreign concept with our current living situation) they were fine with it.

This was taken from the inside of the bedroom, looking into the living room. If you recall the pictures from the last post, this used to be the closet.

The living room-around the front door. The door will be moved to accomodate a bedroom.

This is Joe...he's standing outside of what is currently the laundry room. It will eventually be his bedroom. (The kid rarely has his eyes all the way open in pictures.)

And so it begins...

I recently became a homeowner. I'm still surprised that it happened. The mortgage broker could call me tomorrow and say, "Oops, I wasn't supposed to get you a loan. I'll need those keys now." It wouldn't surprise me at all. But, for now, I own a house :) For $55,000, I bought a 1,296 square foot house. It has a nice little yard in both the front and back of the house. It was built in 1972 AND HASN'T BEEN UPDATED SINCE! That's right, boys and girls...green (used to be shag) carpeting! Okay, so the walls were painted and there is new linolium in the kitchen...but really the green carpet cancels all that out, don't you think?

So, my plan (well, my friend/contractor/life coach's plan that I'm totally on board with) is to transform my slightly under 1,300 sq ft home from 3 bedrooms/1 bath to 5 bedrooms/2 baths. What would Bob the Builder say? (I have no idea, my kids never liked that cartoon.) Anyway, it should be an adventure, and I'm going to blog about it...WITH PICTURES!


These are the before pics of the living room and part of the girls' room. We're moving a wall and cutting the bedroom into 2 rooms. Today we ripped out all the dry wall between the wall on the left there and where the closet is in the 2nd pic. The 3rd is a "hey look what it was before" kind of pic. I plan to post the demolition pics as soon as I get around to taking them :)