Little by Little

We keep finding little bits and pieces that got missed the first big thrust of tear-down.

The baseboard round the stairwell, or the front hall closet doors (how did we miss those?). A few rogue staples still sticking up out of the subflooring...

But one big thing that we finally got around to yesterday was peeling off the tile surround from the fireplace!  Gone, it is. In the trash, it has been thrown.  Injured are my hands.... >_<
Dang tile.
Dang smoothedge around the tile.

At any rate, this is what it looks like now. ^_^

We also are re-doing a bunch of the electrical for the kitchen (and by "we" I mean "Dad"), and in some places you can see into the kitchen from the basement...

This is where the cold air return used to go up into that wall. You know, the one that isn't there anymore... *heh*

Exciting stuff so far this week:  We got the ceilings painted! They are now a fresh lovely white, and don't look dirty. There is also no longer that adorably frustrating pink strip around the edges of the living room ceiling. *ahem*

(it's hard to tell, but the walls are light pink... just trust me on this one)

All of our flooring materials came!!  The wonderfully nice delivery guy even got it all into the garage for me. ^_^

Lots and lots of tile.

And a goodly amount of hardwood. ^_^