Next step: Drywall

Carolyn helped me paint the pocket door (she got the bottom half - I did the top then cleaned up her bottom half) - we still have the other side to do this Saturday...I wouldn't recommend hiring a 4 year old for painting jobs. :)Then, the exterior wall had no insulation - Rob took care of that.
Then, the drywall went up. (The joints and screws have all been 'mudded' once so far, and will need a second coat sometime this week before we paint it and add moulding.)

Wish Rob had another day off... 4 weeks til goal date...and counting (at least I am!)

Demolition done...ready for step 2!

This is all cleaned up after Rob and Seth finished the demo last night - all ready to start drywall on Friday! yea!We wanted to put in a pocket door, but weren't sure about dealing with the studs (changing them to "split studs") - but a blessing happened under the paneling! The wall has previously been set up for a pocket door (why they changed it I don't know?) - so excited!
More posting after the weekend...

Project 1: Closet Remodel

This is Beth posting for Rob...he probably should change the address of the blog - b/c the couch isn't moving. However, there is TONS of room for change in this house (just not in furniture rearrangement).

So,...to leave Legend Oaks behind (which he never finished posting about anyways), here is the first project of our new (40 year old) house! :)

This is how the girls' closet looked upon moving in (awful - 1 crusty rack that I can barely reach and pieces of wood nailed randomly to the wall, oh, and the tacky paneling didn't even cover all the way to the ceiling - about a 1" gap).

So, demolition begins (with Seth helping him) - first the crusty closet rack and nasty wood pieces come off...why were they there? We don't know? (We expected to find holes behind them!)

Then, all that yucky paneling comes off! (along with baseboards and parts of the door frame of course).



It's a decent sized closet - walk in actually (the only one in the house that's walk in) - so we decided to get creative. The twins' dresser is going to the baby (it has a changing table type top), so without any luck on craig's list, etc (and not willing to pay full price for a dresser), we are going to put some built-ins in the closet to hold the twins' clothes (maybe Carolyn's too?) - more racks, and some better shoe organization.

And the door (which swings into the closet, limiting what you can put in there) - that's coming down! It will be replaced with a different type of door, but we're still looking into what we want to make sure we can do it.

Well, we'll keep you posted! Goal Date for completion: November 14th