First, Mya saying hi to the kitty through the window. She loves the cat, Kylan is scared of the cat - go figure!
This is the lower living room. Believe it or not, only about 1/3 of the stuff that has been in it the whole time is in this picture. Fallon Industries came on Tuesday and picked up all the stuff no one wanted. Yea!!!! On the left side of the pic is the chimney to the original fireplace that we are removing in order to remove the wall. The wall used to be solid around it.
Here is a picture of just the chimney. This wall was originally an outside wall before John built on this room when his kids were little. It's kind of cool to see the old color of the house and stuff. The fireplace and the wall between it and the opening you can see will be completely removed to open up the living area more.
Just the fireplace. In the cement at the top it says "Theo Whitman 1945". The original house (we're not totally sure which parts of the house this is) was built in the late 1800's, which makes this house one of the oldest in Fallon, but according to this the fireplace, or at least part of it, was put in in 1945. The Whitman's are who John bought the farm from.
The new full (but still small) bath framed in. Once again you can tell that this was not originally part of the house because you can see an ouside wall. The floor was uneven and they couldn't get to this crawl space under the house to do the plumbing, so they had to remove the floor (and there were about 3 layers of flooring) to do the plumbing and even it out. The far wall will have the bathtub, the toilet will be on the wall on the right, and the sink will be in the corner, which you can't see. Like I said, small, but it will give us a bathtub and another full bathroom downstairs other than ours in the master bedroom.
I will (hopefully) finish painting the upstairs on Saturday and post pics of that. So, that is how things are going only 4 days into the renovation.
5 comments:
i love seeing all that you are doing with grandpa's house! i am so happy you guys will be the new owners. keep the photos coming, and good luck with construction and being pregnant (yikes!)
(ps this is tim's cousin kelli...i have been meaning to get your email so i can invite you to my blog if you care to look...kellilarsen@gmail.com)
a) that is so cool that you get to learn the "history" of the house (since you ARE a history major/grad)
b) i like what you are doing
c) i don't know why, but seeing it all torn apart brings tears to my eyes. it's so neat to see what you're doing, but sad to see it go.
d) ditto to kelli's comment: good luck!
This is fun--it's like following one of those home shows on t.v. You definitely have a talented husband and father-in-law.
Who is doing all the work?
Actually, we are not doing the work. Brett and Gavin are good at doing things themselves, Tim and I are not (we replaced half the windows in our current home 2 years ago and they are still not finished)! Dennis and Darren Reid are doing it, and they are doing a great job! We are doing as much of the demo as we can, we can take things apart, we just can't put them back together!
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