Reno Day One

SO exciting!

The crew was out and in fine form for the big day. Those gents are serious demo machines. Every time I turned around another wall was down. I was very torn about taking down the living room wall but when I saw the walls separating the first floor hallway and the dining room come down, I got really excited about the "open concept" look and finally gave in to the pressure. We are now without walls on the first floor and I LOVE it!

Mom and I were pretty absent when it came to the actual work on day one. It was a really dirty day with the water rotted ceilings and walls as well as the old plaster walls being torn down. We spent the day at Home Depot and Lowes making the tough decisions. I decided on a nice medium-dark brown for the new hardwood. The hardwood will run right into the kitchen and we'll be going with white cupboards from Ikea. Oh and we found some nice bathroom tiles as well - and they were on sale! One of the best parts of the shopping trip was getting to use that customer service button at Lowes. It only took a couple minutes before a nice gent named Danny came to our assistance.

Here are some pics from day one:





















Sam takes a union sanctioned Timmy's break. It's only 9am and he's already filthy :)




















Ellis working on the kitchen demolition. He and Daniel took the cabinets down and discovered a window and the old milk delivery box.


















Little known fact: Our current living room on Roncey was painted in these beautiful ketchup reds and mustard yellows when we first moved in. It was the condiment room for about a week until we painted it a lovely green (thank you Ian). This picture is of the original kitchen floor...as you can see, the condiment colour scheme has follwed us to the new house. As mentioned before, this will be hardwood eventually.























Here's my fella hard at work.



















The gents in the demolished living room after a hard day's work.























The cast iron bathtub made it as far as the hallway. Sam and Ian made a good effort but it was quickly determined that the thing was not only insanely heavy but too big to get downstairs. It will be broken into many many shattered pieces later.



















Yucky yucky water damaged ceiling upstairs. Thanks to Sam for getting up there and pulling it all down and out of the house. As much as I love the house, you couldn't have paid me to do that.