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 ...

This is hard work y'all. I don't think I've been this tired since I had three kids three and under. I have a whole new respect for folks who do this for a living. So.much.work. Today we continued removing wallpaper, demoing the kitchen, and started on the half bath. We also started planning kitchen lighting and figuring out what to do with the extra water lines and electric in the bar ...

"I found some rotted wood." "We're going to have to take off the drywall." Two sentences I did not want to hear today, but I did. The theme of this renovation is SAVE THE DRYWALL! The more we can keep the drywall in tact, the less work we have to do. However, when rotted wood comes falling through the wall, it's time to get out the saw and start taking it off. Thankfully the ...

This renovation stuff is hard work! Today we spent most of the day removing carpet and pad from the house and throwing it in the dumpster. I'm more sore than I ever was when I had a trainer. We made a ton of progress today on the house. The wallpaper has been totally removed from the dining room and we started on the entry. The kitchen has been cleaned out and we managed to get the 56 inch ...

Day two is DONE. Would you believe me if I told you that today we had a fire, power outage, and the dumpster didn't show up? Let's start with the good news. Wallpaper is totally gone from girl's room one. I have to give credit to my kids who did a large portion of the work and were able to remove almost all the wallpaper without damaging any of the drywall. Yesterday we used a ...