From The Happy Husband... My sister in law just asked me what we got done at the house today. I stared at her for a few seconds and stammered something about wallpaper and tile removal. I told her I remembered doing something that involved destroying something. It was one of those days. I know we worked but we're getting tired and the projects are blurring a bit. The tile removal guy ...

Yesterday I mentioned we are going to remove a built-in in the family room. When I first sized up the project I thought it would easy-ish. Easier than wallpaper removal, harder than busting up drywall with a sledgehammer. I carefully removed the glass shelves, glass doors, and modeling around the outside of the cabinet. I was hoping that we could save the cabinet and use it in a ...

I HATE WALLPAPER. That could be the entire post because it sums up my day at the house. We didn't have a full day because of other things going on, but most of today was spent doing three things. Removing wallpaper/ wallpaper glue. Throwing out more garbage. Trying to remove a built-in desk. I've been peeling wallpaper for NINE DAYS. I have twitching in my fingers and I ...

It's been one week since we closed on the house. Throughout each day I go from feeling like I haven't done enough to feeling like we've done a ton in a short amount of time. Then I go out and look at the overflowing dumpster and realize we've done quite a bit in a week. Today we spent a lot of time finishing up projects and planning. We had to pull up tack strips throughout most of the ...

Saturday was the first day we had outside help on the house. We are planning on doing most of the work ourselves (with the help of my dad) but there is so much work to do if we want to move into this house before Cora graduates we needed a few more hands. We hired two teenagers to help with more demolition on Saturday and they worked very hard all day. We got almost all the kitchen demo ...