Phase 1: Demolition Complete

Last weekend the project was to add some desperately needed light to our living room. We have no over head lighting and our living room is really long so when the sun goes down the lamps that we had really werent't enough. So Paul ran some electrival outlets on either side of our TV and we hung sconces that go with the rest of our lighting. Then above our fireplace he ran the necessary electrical to install some can lights.

Our final addition was to put a new lampshade on our table lamp. We had a shade on there but it really didn't let a lot of light through. A few Christmas' ago we put santa hats on top of the lamps and we ended up burning the inside of the shades, so needless to say it looked pretty bad. So these are the pics of our new lighting...

The first phase of the bathroom remodel is complete:
The following pictures are pictures of our demolition. Paul thought it necessary to take a picture of my hands to show that I did still have them both on my body even though I have pretty much continuously injured them since the whole knife incident. I do win the award for first blood shed of the project. I sliced my right ring finger on a tile...o well at least it matches the left one that was sliced by the knife!

So this is where the tub used to be. The new tub will be here too but for now it is nothing but studs, sub floor and insulation.

Just another of picture of the empty bathroom. The toilet used to be under the window and the vanity and medicine cabinet were where the two big white areas are to the left of the window.

And Averi was determined she needed to help so her job was to get the tile pieces into a big pile so Paul could sweep them up. She had on m glasses for the motorcycle to protect her eyes. We told her she absolutely had to wear shoes so she found the first pair she could...her pink cowboy boots. She really did work hard.

The tub should be in this week so hopefully by the end of the weekend we will have the new tub in place and we can begin tiling the walls and floor. Paul says his time frame for the bathroom to be complete is about 2 weeks so we will see how accurate he is!