January Progress

So much is going on at the house! It's been hard to update because its pretty much all destruction...  Right now the painters are about half-way finished with scraping and have primed portions to protect the wood. Just the primer made a huge difference!  I don't have a more recent picture, but here's one from about two weeks ago:

 The construction team has gutted both bathrooms and the mud room. I only have pictures of the downstairs bathroom (I'm really bad at remembering to take pictures):

This week the construction crew is working on framing the closet upstairs and raising the roof on the garage.  I'll post pictures when they are finished.  Next week they will be working on raising the foundation.  They are really starting to move fast!

So what have we been doing?  We power-washed the front walk and worked on the front lawn to give it a little temporary street appeal.

We have been also been working in the kitchen.  Dan removed the back-splash and my mom visited to help clean all the years of sticky off of the cabinets so we could sand them.  Then my sister Hannah came to help us wood fill the holes in the cabinets and start striping the swinging door which no longer swung do to too much paint.

So striping or sanding? SANDING.  Just striping the one door was sooo much work that it is DEFINITELY NOT happening in any other room.  But striping did reveal a funny detail about the house.  The original kitchen was lime green, trim, walls, everything.  We got a little stipper on the walls and that's how we discovered everything was the same color.  And the dining room was pepto pink, trim and all.  And the swinging door was the line.  Literally, there is a line right down the middle of the door frame, one side green and the other pink.  Even the door  was pink on one side and green on the other.  "Yikes" is all I have to say!

We have nearly finished sanding the entire kitchen.  Just a few windows, baseboards, cabinet doors, and a door left...