Framing

Framing is complete!  We thought Anthony would have plenty of time to do it and it'd get done super fast.  After getting most of the basement complete and then the house sitting idle for two weeks (we did go to OK for thanksgiving during that time and Anth went to ND for work for a week) we decided to hire it out.  Best. Decision. Ever! It was so nice not to have to stress over it and to just have it done. (At this point I really wish we could just hire everything out, paying top dollar, to just get the whole house done. But of course it's about the journey and what would we learn if we did that?!?! Oh and plus the whole $$ thing.)
Also in these pictures you can see the new stairs!! Aren't they beautiful!  I love them.  

 Benson is standing in the hall.  In the future there will be a half wall there.

 Looking down the hall to the upstairs rooms and bath.

 Nursery or small bedroom upstairs.

 Upstairs hall bath.

 Hall into master bed/bath

 Master Bath

 Master closet

 Master bed

 Dining room and kitchen (you can't see the old stairs anymore).  The door goes out to the pantry/mudroom.

 Lovely new stairs

 Under the stairs

 Looking through the wall into the downstairs bath and a bedroom

 Yes this is with the plumbing and HVAC started.  Standing at the bottom of the stairs looking through the wall into the bathroom.

 Looking down the hall to the two bedrooms and a bath

 Playroom/laundry/utility rooms

 Door to the under the stairs play area

Now that it's done we do HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc... (we are only doing the electrical :)
Here's to gutting and redoing a house :/
P.S. I LOVE walking into the house now.  I LOVE that I can tell where things (like walls) are going to be :)

6 Years!

 

6 years ago today I married the best man ever!  It was a crazy fast courtship/engagement but I loved every minute of it (except when we broke up for a week)!  I think it feels like we've been married for so much longer.  We've experienced so much together and I'm so grateful to have had him to go through it all with! Love you Anth!!

(Hope you love the shower head:)

More Demo...

Here's a lot more pictures! And I can now say that it's almost all done, like it really is all done but a little rubble from the rock fireplace downstairs.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who helped!  I was in tears with all who came to help this past Saturday.  Thank you!

Benson loving the demo work

 Lucy also wanted in on it

 No more mural or tree :(

 Other wall through to the 2nd bedroom

 Just the fireplace and built-in left.  Oh and the popcorn ceiling

 Wall between living room and dinning room cut in half.  Also the stairs are being moved to the right side of this picture.

 Exposure to the stairs.  (Soon stairs no longer)

 Mantel coming down.  But keeping the rock.

 Cut off wall between the rooms and most of the kitchen torn out.

 Tearing it out!

 Saturday's help!

 Carrie heading down the stairs

 Upstairs and master bath (with the very cute sweeper)

 The men taking turns hitting the rocks off the walls

 Hall downstairs

 Almost all done!!!

 Front of the house.  Receiving a new roof this weekend.  For sure new columns and door.  The green turf also goes. 

 Backyard (I love it).

 Back of the house

 This porch will be in closed in for a pantry and mudroom 

New House!!

So we closed on a house here in Utah about two weeks ago.  We're gutting the house.  In my hind sight, we shouldn't have.  But we are so there you have it.  I hope to document the process here.  Here's a bunch of pictures of the house before the gutting began and then some when we first started.  (Remember the house was built in 1961 and everything is original.)

Walking to the front door into the living room.  We are keeping the mantel, I really love the rock (and apparently the original owners did too).

 Current front door

 Dining room/glance into the galley kitchen

 Upstairs hall bath (we are keeping the yellow tub!  I'm super excited to decorate around it!!!).

 Second bedroom upstairs, it's huge.

 Master bed and bath

 Galley Kitchen

 Stairs behind kitchen (they are being moved into the center of the house in the dining room).

Family room, complete with rock wall, water feature, and "clouds" coming down off the ceiling.

 18 ft mural.  With a "Y" and "V"

 Dry bar and you can see the tree.  Also the shag carpet and tiles ready for a pool table. (We are closing off the dry bar area as a second bedroom downstairs.)

 Another shot of the awesome family room.

 Downstairs hall/door outside

 First downstairs bedroom

 Downstairs bath

 Laundry/storage

 Start of the demo, so fun!! And messy!

 Looking into the bed and bath downstairs

So I need to add a picture of the outside and backyard.  Also now we've demoed the whole downstairs and half the upstairs :)