The drywall/sheetrock get’s delivered! Here stored in the dining room.

Patrick shown with more drywall/sheetrock in the kitchen. Also shown are the torn out walls from the kitchen to the laundry area, formerly known as the outdoor porch siding.

The insulation in the kitchen.

View from the laundry room to the kitchen.

A “little” mistake we found while working on sanding things in the bathroom…the freakin’ bathtub is not leveled!! I don’t even want to know what setbacks this will cause. 3/4″ may not be much by some standards, but it sure as hell is much when your water will overflow on one side but not the other!! Getting very, very frustrated….

Wow! Look at that exposed wood. It just makes me drool!

Wow, look at that handsome stud covered in dust and dirt next to that exposed wooden door. Now what else could a girl ask for!!

The bathroom built-in with the plaster knocked out.

People told us “Oh my god, you’re working on the house on Christmas??”…which is funny, because well, what else were we going to do? Sit on the couch and twiddle our thumbs? Of course we’re going to work on our house during the little time we have off! Paint stripping, when coming off easily, is actually quite relaxing and fun…

The back bedroom served as our paint-stripping territory. Here we (“we” as in Steffi takes a sec to step away from the scraper and behind the camera) were working on the bathroom door.

Below the 2 layers of white, one layer of baby pink, and one layer of mint green we got to this redish-purplish-brown paint below which lays the wood.

We also knocked the rest of the broken plastic out of the door. Oh my goodness…the wood. How sexy!!

The bathroom built-in. Look at that small strip of wood that has some green and pink on it. That’s what we’re working on. It may not be much, but it sure as hell is a lot of work!

The bottom part of the built-in. Look at all that stripped paint on the floor. We also discovered another part of a toilet that we never realized we owned!

Since we have all this painted over hardware we thought we’d try to boil off the paint. Someone had told us it would help peel things right off. Didn’t quite work as well though. I guess that applies more to latex paint, and 91 years of paint means a lot more than latex.