End of the first week of destruction!

Almost filled the 3rd dumpster, but all the carpets are out of the house!

 

 

This is smooth edge. They named it for what it *does*, not what it *is*.  Those little nails are nasty. >_<

 

Everywhere we want to put down tile or hardwood, we had to pull this up.

That includes the staircase.

 

And whoever put the stuff down on the floors has earned my everlasting dislike for putting it down so blasted securely.

So many extra nails.

O_o

 

 

I also got to pull up all the staples that had been used to keep the underlay attached to the floor. They get into some tricky corners on the stairs!

 

 

We turned our front lawn into a free-for-all. There were light fixtures and few more things added to this pile, and some very lovely people who happened to drive by came and took most of this away. We hope it's going to a good home. ^_^

 

Mom has chosen all the colours! She wrote them up on the walls so we know what is going where.

Dad has turned the stripped down living room into his work space - the old kitchen cabinets are marvelous as a table surround for his table saw.

 

And the kitchen is looking more and more like we mean business! Dad had to do a bunch of rewiring.

 

We had to really pull apart the main floor bathroom too. It looks much larger without any walls.... 

 

Next week: on to construction!! We should be done taking out pretty much everything that needs to be ripped apart. Now we can start putting new things in.

 

Yay!