down to the studs...

ok, so it has been awhile since i posted...i have been back to school for the past week, but a lot has been done at/with the new old house! we are just about down to the studs upstairs (i think i am saying that right) just a lot of two by fours are visible and we have a lot of nails that need pulled out of them. we are onto our next phase. hopefully we are done with renting the dumpsters...maybe one more?! in the next phase we are to get the electrical, foundation, gutters, and roof completed....and plumbing i think? we have all three chimneys out. we have purchased our new roof. the slate company is coming tomorrow to take off the old roof and then the new one will go up a.s.a.p. also, some EXCITING news (i think i am more excited about this than joe) we went to the building materials auction yesterday. our bid won on a new set of kitchen cabinets!!!! woo-hoo! they are sitting in our new front room, waiting to be installed, but that is a few months away i am sure. we have no pictures of the new cabinets yet. that will be the next post! enjoy these photos of the ch-ch-changes:)

the pictures are all from the upstairs rooms....as you can see, there isn't much to see!

amber

upstairs hall before and after

as we were looking at which photos to put in the latest blog entry...joe really was struck by this one! it kind of sums up the demo/deconstruction process for him. this is a shot from standing in the front(master) bedroom, looking down the hall (first with walls, then with no walls)...to the banister that goes downstairs. needless to say....there has been a lot of trips to the dumpster for the work crew:) we are currently on the fourth dumpster rental!!! thanks again for stopping by!

two posts in one day! that won't happen often:)

amber

and the walls.....came tumbling down!

here are more photos of the progress! some random shots of things we are finding as we uncover the walls. one photo shows a HUGE beehive....another photo shows sap coming from a board in the attic....another shot of the old window weights...such character! also, as joe tore out the walls of the soon to be playroom...we found that the door frame is actually twice the size. to make the door big again or keep it small...that is the question:) upstairs almost ALL the walls are down. there will be one more photo coming in a post soon! check back soon.

amber