Dust me, maybe?

power was cut to the room - you know for safety - so not the best pic...demo...

footprints in the dust

you can see the walk way in the dust

the back yard...where all the stuff went

I apologize to the neighbors

look, no bats in the attic!

under the window needs some attention

the continuing toilet saga

since the main toilet area looks like this, and DH had to put a fan under the house to get it dry enough to work on the water lines, which caused mold to blow into the house, which in turn started my allergies to start rearing their ugly heads, we went to a little slice of heaven in Downtown Tulsa.  I had enough Marriott points for one night at the Courtyard by Marriott at the Atlas Life building...

     I think they felt sorry for us, they gave us an upgrade...

The sign on the shower made us feel  at home....

Not enough Marriott or Hilton points for another night at a hotel so DH drug this out of the shed...

Not sure why putting the porta potty in the bedroom seemed like a good idea, but after I informed DH that wasn't acceptable, he put it in the 3/4 bath...I hope there's no spiders in that thing...today is Saturday and day four of the toilet saga...think I'll go use the Marriott points credit card....after I find some unsuspecting soul to let me use their facilities...

No, you may not use my toilet

If we had visitors and they asked to use the toilet we would have to tell them no.....Dear Hubby did tell me last night that if things went well with the plumbing he was going to start demo on the main bathroom today. I did hear him say something about part of the lines he needed to get to were in the wall so that would mean we would only have one toilet for awhile longer...I understood that to mean the new 3/4 bath would be all working before demo began.  As I write this, I have zero working toilets in the house...we can go out the The Boy's garage apartment (think frat house) and use that one but I'm more inclined to see if Army Surplus has a Porta Jane...now it's 8:20 PM and DH just realized that another pipe has burst and needs to be replaced (the good news is he will have replaced all the plumbing in the house when this project is done)...he hates plumbing!

smoke at the top of the window and on the shutters....still signs of the floor furnace catching on fire back in 1997

I think the old shutters DH uncovered are cool.  Hopefully we can reclaim those.

                                                                                               maybe a hotel room is in order....

Main Bathroom

Dear Hubby has informed me that demo will begin soon - MAYBE as soon as tomorrow. If the plumbing project with the 3/4 bath goes well and his back isn't aching too bad after working under the house, then demo begins.  It seems as though two working toilets in the house can't happen until he can get to pipes that are behind the plaster that is coming out.  Oh JOY! More plaster dust and mess to deal with.  On the positive side, the bathroom will FINALLY be done...we've been collecting supplies for a few years.  That sink I bought four or so years ago may be out of style by now.....

3/4 Bath time

as I mentioned in my last post, Dear Hubby has done what we lovingly refer to as "found a bird" and has gone from working on my pantry to getting the 3/4 bath installed. LOOK! A Bird! Those of you who are ADD/ADHD, or who live with someone who is, will get that one. Anywho, here's where we've come from:

looking into what will someday be a 3/4 bath

storage space during construction of the rest of the kitchen

looking into bath from what is now my partially finished pantry 

still a storage place

found this sink at Habitat for Humanity's ReStore!

The Boy being, well, The Boy...the shower doesn't really work yet, he got his shirt wet giving the dogs a bath - MUCH appreciated by mama!

I LOVE this, DH installed this behind the bathroom door...

it "hides" the toilet scrubber and plunger!

light over sink installed

the switch for said light needs to be installed as does the one for the fan

trim needs to be installed and I know just the guy to do it!

he'll use the old stuff first, what he can anyway

There he is! Working on the trim...of course the predicted high is "only" 97 degrees today, and since the garage isn't big enough to do this king of work in, he has to set up in the driveway, which means as soon as the sun is directly overhead that'll be the end of work for today. Someday soon my one bath house will be a one and 3/4 bath!

We have trim and a pantry - well sort of

My last post, You've Come a Long Way Baby, was many months ago and some progress has been made since then. We didn't have trim.  Dear Hubby took this

and turned it into trim

TA DA! We have trim!

Now my sweet Dear Hubby is on to another project because the pantry hasn't quite turned out the way he had hoped and he's going to have to pull a mulligan on it...here's pics of the pantry...in the building stage

You've come a long way baby!