Another One Bites the Dust (literally)

While we are well underway with Phase 2 of our amazing reno, we got a surprise start to Phase 3 today.  Yes, we didn't have enough on our plate with the upstairs bath and kitchen, so we decided to throw in all of the flooring and trim in the living room, hall, stairs and upstairs hallway.  The doors will be included upstairs also.  In fact the only thing that we aren't doing are the floors and woodwork in the 5 bedrooms.  Maybe in a couple of years.  After I recover from the shock of all of this.

We are gluttons for punishment.  Insaniacs.  I mean, in order to get to the food, we have to go out the front door, around the side of the house and into the rec room where the make do kitchen is.  This means that some food items may get left in the living room occasionally when I am too lazy to trudge back around to put it away.  Thank goodness the snow is gone.

The floor guys were finally able to scrape off all of the old flooring layers in the kitchen and decided to go ahead and tear out the carpet in the living room and hallway.  Yippee.  I would rather walk on the wood floor base than the nasty old carpet.  The bad thing is that I was unable to get a final picture of the carpeting, but I was embarrassed by it, so maybe that isn't such a bad thing.  At least the spot where Rach ate the chocolate pudding is now history.  ( Is That Mud? explains this catastrophe)

Enjoy the pictures.

The walls are now gone.  Of course, they

discovered that we had inadequate insulation

in the outside wall.  Ka-ching!

No more soffit.  There is a vent that went through that,

so the plumber will be back on Friday to figure out a

solution to that little problem.  Ka-ching!

This is the wall extension from the living room side.  In order to fit in the fridge and a few other

goodies, it was necessary to extend into the existing 7 ft. opening.

Same thing from the kitchen side.

This is called rock lathe and plaster.  It came after wood lathe and before drywall.  Very dusty stuff

when you go to demo it.

This is what you do with the furniture when they are tearing up your floor.

Oh, lordy.  You can't really tell in this picture, but that is yellow-gold linoleum with glitter in it.  

I swear to God.  This was in the entryway under the carpet.  No telling what is under the carpet on the stairs.

This is what we found under the carpet going into the hallway from the living room.  Luckily,

they only laid this wonderful stuff in the hall and not over the entire living room floor.

Yuck.

Here's a better picture of the amount of dust that I am talking about.  Ignore the tea bottle.  It proves

how lazy I am.

Can you see the glitter in the flooring?

PS:  As I post this the dulcet tones of a heavy belt sander are heard trying to get some of the 'crown' out of the kitchen and living room floors.  More on that later.