One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind…ok, well maybe not entirely, but it sure feels like it. The bathtub is finally looking good – the level shows it’s straight and everything. So the bathroom finally appears to be where it was supposed to be a month ago!

We are now secured and armed!

Our pretty new laundry room door. Though after installation we already found our brand new door handles with a big fat scratch, along with some other issues that we were not happy with. The plan is to stain the door at some point.

You guessed it – more paint scraping!

Patrick looking awfully pathetic while scraping paint from the bathroom built-in. And yes, he actually was scraping with both of those at the same time for a while.

And in other good news: Our range and dishwasher have been delivered!

In bad news: Our contractor seems to have gone AWOL.

Not that anyone is actually reading our website, but sorry if it’s starting to get boring with all the paint scraping. I think it’s just a way to keep track for myself what happens on certain days. So sorry if some of it doesn’t bring much exciting or drastic change news.

When we came to the house on Saturday evening to scrape paint, the drywall had gotten it’s first coat of finishing.

The future locations of the kitchen built-in on the left and fridge and counter space on the right.

Where the kitchen sink will go.

Where the sink and toilet will go.

The crazy laundry addition.

Our wonderful friend Irena came to help us scrape paint! She did an excellent job on the door that Patrick had gotten frustrated with. And to our surprise she even told us to save the rest of the door for her for next time!

Yay! This is really exciting. The drywall people were here today. The place looks sooo different now. We are so used to seeing the attic-like-walls with exposed 2x4s and wires hanging everywhere. This completely changes the feel of everything. This will be another long post because we were just so excited about documenting the drywalled place.

Looking at the bathroom wall where the toilet and sink will be.

The bath built-in and the location of the shower faucets.

We asked them to leave a space open above the bath built-in so we can utilize it for more storage.

The white sheetrock is regular sheetrock, the blue one is waterproof and placed nearby the bathtub.

Looking at the laundry wall and towards the back door.

Looking at the laundry wall and fuse box wall.

Fuse box and looking through the kitchen to the dining room.

View from kitchen towards laundry room.

View from kitchen towards dining room, showing the newly re-constructed butler’s pantry arch.

In kitchen showing dining room door, butler’s pantry arch and hallway door.

In kitchen looking towards future location of fridge and counter top space.

Ok, I realize I don’t look too thrilled in this picture, but I literally just got the paint off a difficult built-in corner that I had been attempting to get off for days, so despite the misleading picture I was quite extatic.

Now that the drywall is up we’re a little bit worried about the HVAC duct vent in the kitchen. Once the molding goes on we think the vent could possibly be too close to the wall. I guess we’ll see.