Doug and I decided to tackle the last remaining non-remodled (well, partially remodeled, but not finised) room recently. It was serving previously as our "storage room/makeshift garage/tool room. In short, it was a mess and non-functional for anything but storage.
So why the sudden urge to tackle a room remodel, you ask? Well, three things mainly. Oliver, Gabriel and food all over our Mongolian rug after every meal many times a day. You see, our back room is tiled (done during my twin pregnancy with the tireless help of my parents). So, all we needed to do was tear off the paneling and molding, sheetrock it, mud it, sand it, paint it, and put up all the new molding. Piece of cake. And since it was so easy, we decided to also change out two doors so we could see out into the back yard and side alley. Better to keep an eye on my boys, I say.
We started memorial weekend and foolishly thought we could finish it in two days. Well, we are 4 full work days into our project now (and a calendar month later). Not to mention my few hours here and there during nap time to speed us along. We are getting closer! Here are some pictures of our progress.
Picture of the back room when we were looking at buying the house.
First thing Doug did was pull up the carpet that was pee soaked from the previous owner's dog. Stinky!
Turned out, once we pulled the carpet up, that we realized the floor joists below the carpet were rotten through. Have you ever seen the movie "Money Pit" with Tom Hanks? Sometimes our house reminds me of that movie...
Tiling the floor at only 4 months pregnant with the twins. This was early September. I didn't deliver (5 weeks early at that) until almost Christmas!
This was the beginning of the current remodel - Memorial weekend. Notice that we have cement behind our walls. Yes, that made for lots of trouble trying to figure out a way to put up sheetrock, etc.
Current status of the room as of last night. We are getting closer!
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