Mother's Day-Destruction Day

It is time to tear down walls and get ready to add a bathroom! Yesterday, we spent the day in the barn cleaning and organizing. We made a lot of progress even with the rain. We found a nice teacher style desk and several old windows. We cleaned out one more stall and made a good dent in the middle. There were several chairs and tables and a large antiques sign too. Then Danny came by to go over the plans again. We are trying to get everything finalized on the drawings so we get the walls in the right place. We have to get the tubs ready to set in before next weekend when Chris is going to try to come again and help put up the walls.

Danny (contractor) is awesome! He showed up yesterday and, after spending a couple of hours going over final details, he asked if he could unload the ZTR mower he had on a trailer and mow the yard for us...Of course we said we didn't mind. When we left, he was mowing the front yard. He mowed the whole area around the house, including the backyard and the corral in front of the barn!!! That saved me a few worries for the next couple of weeks!! THANK YOU Danny!

Today was destruction day. Thankfully Danny told us that while you can't butt the drywall up to the lathe and plaster walls, you can leave a gap and fill it in with a piece of trim. We also learned that we don't have to take down all the walls! We can put the studs over the plaster and insulate between them and away we go! So demo was a lot less then what we were thinking. I stayed home with the two little ones since I couldn't go in the house with all that dust flying, but here are a few pictures from demo today. These rooms are what was the master closet, the bathroom and the upstairs study. They will become a hall into the kids bath, Teddy's room, the kid's bathroom and our bathroom. We found a buffet dated 1948 that we are going to make into a dual vanity for the kids. It will be at the end of the hall. The kids will be able to have one or two at the sinks and one through the door in the bathroom, so hopefully it will be user friendly!