Aftermath...

First of all, who would "special order" this? U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, you ugly ... yeah yeah, you ugly. *whoops to anyone that has this carpet, if you feel your carpet is similar, realize that you have the Cinderella to this ugly stepsister of a foot fabric*




And then after a long day of house renovating and wandering about Home Depot (who has nothing on Lowe's btw) we ate. (I know to the reader it may seem very soon after lunch, but it was like 8:30 by the time we ate dinner.)

Hospitality & First Meal

This just in, first meal served in the Lucarini/ Ehlers household: Homemade pizza (mozz, ricotta, pastrami, spinach, and tomato), pretzels & dip, and beer!

Cheers and may the good times go on!

Colors & Layers

Wall in the downstairs hall.




Inside the closet of the downstairs bedroom/ laundry room.




Behind the kitchen cabinets:

More Secret Stashes

So many ice cube trays, and tucked in all areas of the cabinetry like they were hiding them from someone. Mmmmm, grenadine.




I couldn't just throw this out! What if it's tasty?




I understand the wax paper and ant traps, but a pacifier?... The youngest of the children is like 50. May be a grandchild's? I hope...




This woman was a bigger mini-bottle collector than I am. May be...




Words cannot describe the rest of these treasures.

Good Things Come in Threes: Aunt Debbie, Dad, and Nanie

Two Notes:
1) Yay! Dad got to see my house for the first time and didn't hate it! Yay for artistic vision.
2) Aunt Debbie is not pictured and that drastically understates her participation, it's just that she moves so darn fast you can't capture her on film!

Aunt Debbie and I took turns trying to scrape this out. It was harder than it looks.




We also worked to get up tile and take off window dressings.




Took out the vanity in the downstairs bathroom. Turns out it went straight through the wall!






Unpictured: pulled out the rest of the staples in stairwell and floor in living room and hallway, moved most of the scraps and junk to the garage, got rid of remaining wall paper, pulled out cabinets in downstairs bathroom, uncovered the rest of the radiators, put a door over the opening to my basement where animals could get in, and I am sure there were more things, but off the top of my head that was Saturday!

The Kitchen & What Happened There

Dad bringing kitchen remnants out and then pointing out where the cabinets used to be. Colorful.






Nanie killing mold.




They took this down too.




Brendan washing dishes in the aftermath.

Pete's Work Weds thru Sat

This is in the bedroom where we had the washer and dryer. For now it will be divided into a closet facing the side for a stackable, and a small but deep shelving area to the left. Yes it makes the room a bit smaller but it retains it's status as a bedroom and is a step closer to putting the laundry in the hall and making the bedroom just that- a bedroom.




Here we had a "walk in" closet, also known as a sewing room to the right and to the left of it was a small closet. blew them both out and we have a pretty sweet master bedroom.




In the bathroom Pete took out the remainder of the cabinetry as well as the as the sink. I am actually haveing some remorse about getting rid of that vanity especially after vanity shopping right now. :( Hopefully he didn't destroy it. Going to ask him Monday.






Pete cut this wall in half. It makes the stairwell area MUCH nicer. It's open and brighter.