The new support columns have received their pretty touch. Now we just need to figure out what color to paint them.

We found about 100-150 Bellsouth YellowPages in our dumpster!! We’re not paying all this money for a dumpster only for some idiot to dump all those books in there. We called and someone picked them back up.

About one million drilled holes later it looks like the pipes are in the right location for our pedestal sink.

Originally we wanted attic access through the laundry room, but the roof is too slanted there so we now made a hole in the closet to make access from there.

The framing for the location of the kitchen built-in.

We have to build a wall where the washer and dryer go because we had to run some pipes through the floor and need to cover them up. This way we’ll have a little storage shelf as well.

Getting more paint off the wood.

The bathtub has to be filled for the plumbing inspection. At this point it was leaking and the valves were installed croocked and not to the height we had specified.

This is a long one because lots of new things have happened…

Support columns for the sagging beam.

Closer look.

We had to install partial new sub-flooring in the laundry addition.

View towards kitchen.

The pipes for the laundry.

What a beautiful new hardwood floor in the kitchen. It’s already getting dirty though!

We’re pretty sure this is new…a bit of a plaster booboo in our back bedroom closet – it backs up to the laundry where all that work happened.

Where the back bedroom had floor damage (from the adjacent bathroom) we had salvaged kitchen floor to put in place. Hopefully the color difference will be fixed once the floors are redone.

Trying out our pedestal sink.

Not exactly what we had pictured and not exactly what is the norm for pedestal sinks.

Our brand-spanking-new HVAC system.

Yay! We passed the electrical inspection. Those guys kicked ass. Crew of four rewired the entire house in 3 days.

Ripping up the floor(s) to get back to the wood in the laundry room (former back porch).

Look at the crazy pattern one of those floors had.

The floor is pretty much ready to go. Looks like we may have to tear some of it up though because it is uneven.

It may look like Patrick did all the work, but believe me that it only looks like this because he didn’t take any pictures of me working equally as hard!

Something we could work on from home: Stripping paint from the medicine cabinet mirror.

Scraping away.

Look at all those lovely layers of paint.

The paint is gone, on to sanding.

Yay, the easy part is done – the flat back of the mirror!