Hurry!

We have to make a quick trip to Manhattan tonight to get a new bathtub. We can keep our construction crew for the rest of the week so we decided to let them tile the bathroom floor and around the tub. Unfortunately, the tub has to be installed first (got the local plumbers to make room for us on Friday) and nobody in town has a tub in stock.

Moving Right Along

The construction crew has arrived and they think they will have most of it done today. Yay! I think they will have to come back to mud and patch the sheetrock but it should look pretty different this evening. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Prior to them coming, I removed the trim and door jambs where we are taking out walls and doorways. We also took out the carpeting and carpet tacking. We busted through some of the sheetrock to access electrical outlets, etc. to be shut off. We also decided last night to completely gut the bathroom and put in a new tub. That way Brett can get to all the rotted flooring and we can do our upgrades the right way. In doing this, we discovered that the closet that backed up to our bathroom cabinets was pretty small and we could turn it into one big bathroom closet and get rid of the odd little door/closet that would be in our dining room. We found that out just in time since the crew came first thing this morning.

Hopefully I will be able to get some "during" pictures of our new floorplan tonight. Things are moving pretty fast so hopefully we can paint quickly and move in sooner than later!

Remodel Plans Updated

Our new house is quite a mess right now since we are undergoing a big remodel. The bathroom is pretty bare since Brett got the toilet, vanity, and a partial wall taken out. He has started taking out flooring but hasn't gotten too far yet. The hardwoods need to come out (they were a little rotted) before tiling. There will also be some drywall patching and painting prior to the new floor and fixtures come in.

As for the rest of the downstairs, we are making some major changes. We decided to take the hallway wall out to open up the house more. The living room isn't going to be all that open but the rest of the downstairs will be. Due to the size of the living room, it just doesn't seem like there will be a way to open that up. We started the demo this week and it is going pretty well so far. We had an electrician come in last night to look at everything so that we can continue with the demo.

We haven't touched the upstairs which is okay. All that needs done there is painting and new window coverings. I am hoping to get the window coverings purchased this weekend while we're in Kansas City and then start painting next weekend. We will also need to paint the entire downstairs before furniture comes.

The kitchen will be the only room left not updated. My family thinks we're crazy for not doing that now too but we want to be smart about our money and not spend more than we can handle up front. I am planning to paint the cabinets white and we will redo the flooring for now. There are just a few things that need done before we can remodel the kitchen. The main one is getting a new furnace installed in the garage when we put in central air and ducts to the upstairs. We will also have to move the water heater out there, or maybe install a tankless one. This will allow us to put the dryer in a kitchen closet where the washer sets and I will hopefully have a large pantry where the dryer currently is. 

Lots of work to be done but it is coming along pretty nicely so far. The construction crew will be in early next week to get the remodel done. Hopefully they will be able to finish by the end of next week or shortly after. Then it is just painting and flooring, and putting the bathroom back together before we can move in furniture. Hopefully that won't take more than a couple of weeks. I think we should definitely be moved by Thanksgiving and hopefully a week or two prior.

Closed

We closed on the house yesterday. It was uneventful and pretty fast. Now it is time to get to work! We are going to order a patio door today or tomorrow so we can get our doorways cut and that installed. We will also start demo on the bathroom to get that done. And I will be painting whenever I can.

Closing

We finally have our closing scheduled for the house. It will be this coming Wednesday. Only two days before our originally scheduled closing date. We were hoping to be in at least a week or two earlier but the bank's appraisal took forever! Our next step is to get a patio door ordered and a contractor scheduled to come install that and knock out our other doorway between the kitchen and new dining room. In the meantime, I will start painting the bedrooms and kitchen cabinets and Brett will start pulling everything out of the bathroom and putting the new tile, toilet, sink, and vanity in. We are ready to get started but I'm sure we will be overwhelmed very soon!