week 2 progress

Wow, a whole lotta work has been done since last week, though it seemed slow going at first. Terry's dad Jerry came on Tuesday to help us. What a blessing he has been! But the first two days were mostly spent at Menard's picking up necessary items like lights, etc. We made THREE trips this week alone! Terry and I even had to drive an hour to pick up more tile! I'm so tired of that place, I have to say.

Things accomplished, as far as I can remember:

1. Shop til we dropped

2. Pull up carpet and pad

3. Paint the hall, main floor, paneling and doors

4. Paint lower level and guest room

5. Remove soffet

6. Patch drywall

7. Install main can lights

8. Remove bathroom tile and put new up

9. Prime bathroom

10. Raise cupboards for microwave and fridge

11. Begin installing wood flooring

12. Remove painting tape =) Hey, that took me a long time to do. Don't worry, I used a razor...

First off, the carpet and pad came up and went out of the house. Here are Bobby, Levi and Terry either pounding in nails or pulling out staples. The two boys stayed with us for a few days so we put them to work!

Here is Herbie taking out the wood from the soffet and you'd never believe what we found in there. It was a time capsule with a paper from the day Mr. Fickenscher sealed it up, in 1969! I think we'll frame it and keep it with the house, always =)

Here is Noah and Evie being silly, as always, while watching Up on the laptop. They have to have something to do on rainy days after all!

Dr. Dave is working on taking out that little shelf thing the other stove had been on. It was a short stove... We'll be putting a full size one there. He also raised those cupboards.

Here are the boys scraping off paint in the bathroom. Take note of the old tile as well b/c that comes out later!

After I was done painting the main floor living room, I went to the lower level and guest room. But first Terry had to scrape this bubbly stuff off the walls above the heat registers. We are pretty sure it was not mold but maybe something to do with the heat on the painted bricks...

Jerry scraped off all the old tiles in the upstairs bathroom. What a project this bathroom turned out to be for him. He also had taken out the toilet right here.

Notice the completed painted walls first. But more importantly, the wood floor arrived! Terry received a lesson from Todd about how to install it on Friday but didn't start working on it until today, Monday (he did have to preach on Sunday, as well as graduation and receptions!)

Terry's lifting partner Kevin has been helping with some drywall patchwork, here in the kitchen, bathroom, hallway and main floor. Here he's patched the light in the kitchen, the soffet and the dining room light. We'll be putting can lights in the kitchen and moving the dining room light over.

Here is the lower level. It had been white and now it is the same color as the upstairs. I think we'll be putting some more touches here... That doorway leads into the guest room.

Here is the guest room. It's the same color as the guest room in our current house. I love it...and wanted to use the old paint up =)

Here is another view of the main floor. You can see upstairs into our room and down to the lower level. See the paneling? I painted it a shade darker than what's on the walls.

I love it

I also painted the doors. And then we had to take the front door out due to the wood floor needing a new threshold.

Terry worked from 10am to 830pm on this floor today. He was so tired! I love the color of the wood and walls.

Jerry is taking the old door to the garage. He had to replace the door jam before he could get the new door in.

"December 5 1969

Tim Fickenscher"

This is what the was the builder's son had inscribed on the main floor. I thought I better take a photo since who knows when this floor will be visible again. Though I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to take our wood up =)

I primed the bathroom once Jerry had completed the new tiling.

A closer look at that tile. It's just simple glossy white from Menard's.

Noah is sitting next to the pile of wallpaper shreds from when Terry had scraped it off two weeks ago. Evie had just got up from a nap and was still a little cranky.

See? Cranky girl.

In goes the new door!

This is how far Terry had got when I left the house at 5pm. He stopped for the night when he had reached the stairs!