Making Progress, I think.

So after a few weeks of mostly destructive actions, this week has been somewhat more satisfying, as some actual visual progress has been made.

Progress:
We framed in the new closet, including the pocket doors. We are reusing old doors from elsewhere in the house as the pocket doors, so they will all match.


We have all of the drywall up in the Master Bedroom. This, however, was also not without incidence, as due to the unintentional cutting of an earlier set of wires in the floor, the drywall had to be put on hold while the electrician figured out what was wrong. This resulted in my coming home (after a few days out of town), to a 2x4 board holding up the ceiling in my kitchen! Apparently we now have new wiring in the overhead lights on the 1st floor, and they had to take out part of the ceiling in the kitchen to fix it.


The paint color for the Master Bedroom and Bath has been chosen after painting several large squares around the room. It took quite a few squares, as each color was a little bit off of what my mind thought it should look like.



Destruction:
Of course, there is still more destruction ongoing. With the new shower installed, we can now demolish the old bathroom.

It proved to be quite interesting. After removing the current tub surround, I found a layer of drywall, and then some very pink plastic tile. We think it's from about 1950 or so. How pretty.


Removing the old tub proved to be much harder than it looked. The tub was of a fiberglass type or vinyl of some sort. Usually this means that one can just give a big tug and out it pops. Not in this case! First we tugged, then we pried, then finally we got it slid out far enough that I could get in behind it and push. Over it went, and aha! The reason the tub was so hard to move is that whoever put it in place had affixed an entire bag of concrete to the bottom!


Additionally, I discovered that the tiny window in the bathroom had once been a bit bigger, as is evidenced by the only insulation we've found thus far. AND, I found a matching window opening that used to be in one of the bedrooms before it had become part of the bathroom. This means that we can reuse the window we had to remove and put this bedroom back to the way it was long long ago. You can see the old window opening where the wood is a bit lighter in the background.


I also found some evidence of the fire that the house had in 1970. It was hit by lightning then and the attic and roof burned. It has since been redone and a new roof line built. We even have the article in the local newspaper that shows the firemen fighting the fire.

So, now I have managed to put holes in 3 of the 4 four bedrooms that we started with. Onward!