Slowly but surely...

This is TL a few weeks ago tearing down the last bit of the wall that separated the den and kitchen. It's finally one big room!



This was our bathroom and closet a few weeks ago in the midst of being framed in.



A couple of trees in our backyard had to come down because they were unhealthy and in the way of our screened in porch...



TL raised the support beams in the sunroom a couple of weeks ago...the room feels so much bigger!



This is the downstairs half-bath... completely gutted and ready for new beautiful mosaic tile, a new toilet, and a pedestal sink..which is coming soon...



This is the drywall going up in the new master bath and closet...



Our contractor, Marcos, had to re-do most of the plumbing in our master bathroom so some of the ceiling underneath in the den had to be torn out...I'm so thankful now we know it was done well and in good shape for all the years to come...



Here is my Dad joyfully helping with the ceiling scraping... TL has 1 room upstairs and 1 closet downstairs to finish and then that's all done...they saved us lots of money by doing it themselves.



TL re-wiring in the sunroom and putting up insulation... is he impressive or what?!?! :)



Our bedroom for the last few weeks = chaos.



This is Marcos at the beginning of the tiling in our bathroom...



The guest bathroom about to be tiled...



More of the lovely state of our bedroom/bathroom/closet...



Carrara marble tile going up in our new walk-in shower!



Tile in the works in the shower...



This is our new bathtub just after being installed and framed in! That's the new tile under the plastic on the floor...



That's the tub on the left, the shower to the right, and the toilet will go to the left of the shower...just to give you a feel for the new bathroom...



TL decided to frame the garage door in himself and he did such a great job...it looks beautiful!



The new tile in the guest bathroom...



New shower...



Entrance into master bath...



Lots of progress being made :)



This is the hallway upstairs that leads to 2 of the bedrooms... the carpet is up and the ceiling has been scraped...the old doors are all off...



The current state of the sunroom... TL finished insulating so that the ceiling can soon go up and he started raising the floor so that all the flooring will be at the same level...



There was not much left of the ceiling in the kitchen so they went ahead and tore it all out so that new lighting could be installed... I'll post pictures of that soon...



New drywall in the den...TL and Marcos updated the plumbing on the other side of that wall for the laundry room...



The den...



TL closed in a small closet in the hallway to the front door from the kitchen and so now we have 1 big one closet instead of 2 small ones...



The garage door with the new trim up close...



Marcos moved that big white pipe so that we could open up that entrance into the kitchen more... what a difference it makes!



There's the white pipe that Marcos moved... we're so impressed by his work!



TL and me at the Tic-Toc ice cream shop in downtown Loudon on my birthday! :)

It must get worse before it gets better...

Last Monday night TL started taking out all of the kitchen cabinets and knocked out the soffits above the cabinets where the lighting was. This way our new cabinets can go all the way to the ceiling. It's going to give us so much more cabinet space!



Thankfully only lighting was running through the soffits so TL could knock them all out! (Not without some major work though)



He even cleans up! But usually that's my job...



More cabinets coming down...



and going out to the garage...we're going to reuse some of them in our laundry room and mudroom...



More framing coming down...the kitchen feels bigger already!



View into the kitchen from the den...the rest of that wall is coming down soon because our contractor told us today that it's not load bearing. So that makes life easier...



The current state of our kitchen...But thankfully, we finished designing the cabinets, island and layout a few nights ago so a beautiful new kitchen is in the works...:)



Just for a refresher, this is what the kitchen looked like last week...



This is the current lefthand side of the kitchen...That wall on the far left is coming out to open up the space more but there's a pipe that's going to have to be moved first...



This is what that side of the kitchen looked like last week...



This is the current state of our laundry room...TL knocked out that wall at the back of the laundry room and it is now completely open into the garage.



That space in the far back lefthand side of the garage was once a workspace but will now be part of the laundry room. The wall that the boards are leaning against is the one that got torn down. We are extending the laundry room so that the front part of that room can become a mudroom!



This is what the laundry room looked like last week...



This is TL beginning to demo the master bedroom and bathroom...



The old carpet is coming up and new carpet will eventually go down...we are gutting and remodeling and expanding the bathroom and closet...



Yes that's the shower laying on the floor...TL went to town destroying the bathroom...



We're gonna start all over, in case you couldn't tell...





TL evaluating the plumbing...we had a minor flood this afternoon when TL removed the rest of the shower, but somehow he got it under control quickly...thankfully I wasn't there or I would have just been freaking out (not helpful at all)...but he cut off all of the water to our house...so don't stop by our house to use the bathroom...



This is what our bedroom, bathroom and closet look like as of this afternoon...we have a long way to go... :)



This is what you see when you walk in our front door and turn to the left...If you turn down that hallway to the right, you go towards the kitchen, den, and breakfast room. If you go straight ahead, you go into the dining room...and obviously, the stairs go...you get it.



The current state of our stairs...they are coming out of carpeting and into the light of hardwood...






This is the hallway that leads to the kitchen, den, and breakfast room. The 1st doorway on the right is a half-bath. The 2nd and 3rd doorways on the right are closets but are soon going to be combined into one closet (so we lose a doorway...there were too many in this hall). The doorway on the left is also a closet.



This is the half-bath. Soon to be remodeled...












Let the remodeling begin... :)














The 2 closets on the right-hand side of the hallway are now one big closet thanks to TL. The doorway on the right will be drywalled in...(and you'll never even know it was there...well, you will, cause you saw pictures)



And to wrap up this posting, the huge, overgrown holly bushes that blocked the front porch were dug up on Friday (you can see them in the next picture down)...so now you can see the front porch!
more updates to come soon... :)