The remodel has expanded, and expanded some more. Maybe it was the progress in the bathroom that inspired us. Seeing those new walls all nicely painted and the new flooring so nice and new. We expanded the remodel efforts to Sunshine's room a week or two ago. Mind you, the bathroom still is not finished, it is 2/3 functioning though. The tub/shower and toilet are functional, but the countertop is still not done and therefore the sink is not functional. We will get there, but first we decided to expand the remodel to not only Sunshine's room but the hall that connects the bathroom and her room. Then we figured why stop there? Within the next 2 days we were starting in on the living room. Then we realized it made more sense to keep going into the original dining area while we were at it. Then since that area connects into the kitchen we will have some blending to do into the already remodeled kitchen as well. Which means we will have to repaint the kitchen since the feathering out of the joint compound and texturing to blend the transition will require some paint touch ups.
We've possibly bit off more than we can chew. Ha Ha Well maybe not, we are gnawing and chewing as fast as we can. It is coming along really quickly thanks to a VERY motivated and energized Mr Wonderful! He is on a mission and working late into the night several nights already. Thankfully his work schedule has been fairly light lately so he is able to put some more focus into the remodel than he'd have normally been able to.
We are currently on the 2nd coat of mud (joint compound) on the walls. It feels great to be this far and I can't wait until the end result.
We extended one wall out to give us more options in arranging furniture in the living area, on the backside of the new wall we want to install a new woodstove at some point down the road. We took out a short wall that had openings in it that we didn't care for.
BEFORE: The wall behind Tobers got tore out back to the door. The wall Tobers is working on got extended a couple feet and the opening was filled in. You can see the "lovely" two tone paneling and painted wallpaper covered sheetrock board walls.
DURING (sneak peek): You can see the short wall section by the door is now gone, and the other wall is longer and the opening is filled in now! Woodstove will go behind this wall, so the wood mess isn't facing the living room area. The sheetrock is up but we hadn't started the joint compound quite yet. We added bullnose corners for something different.
While we were doing the remodel we realized we are going to need to replace the flooring in both the living area and kitchen. The living room carpet is very cheap (short fibers and light colored and shows every stain). The kitchen floor is sort of a disaster because the old old floor is showing in areas where we had to move base cabinets to make the kitchen larger in that remodel project. So we have some rugs carefully placed to cover those bad spots, they catch all kinds of crud in those areas where the flooring gaps so it really needs replaced. We were making due and being patient while we saved up the funds to replace it. We decided to go ahead and get it done sooner than later after we finish redoing the walls. We had the time and we couldn't work on much else with the cold weather and snow we've been having. We filed our taxes and know what our refund will be when it arrives. So as soon as that is in we can order our flooring.
I will keep you posted and hopefully we will have some final after pictures to share soon.
Tomorrow is Spud Man's 13th birthday! I can't believe we will have two teenagers now. Looking forward to many good times ahead and fun adventures as these kiddos grow into adults.
