Progress is being made!

It's so exciting to see how far we've come, and to be able to actually see some ideas coming together!  Remember the entry?

 

You can see Brad standing between the old wall and the new, and the closet in the background.

 

 

And now...

The big eyesore/water heater closet is gone!  The entry is so much more open!  It was a much bigger job than I thought it would be when I asked to have it removed, so I'm especially thankful to have it gone.  Also the living room wall is now 2 feet from where it started out, making it nice and even with the wall across from it.  I love it!  I'm tossing around an idea for the hall.  We'll see:)

 

Looking pretty nice, right?  Uh Oh.  Slam on the brakes!  The ceiling was very saggy, and we had been assuming it could be repaired easily.  Either that or we were just ignoring it and hoping it would go away.  Reality hit and it was all removed yesterday.  Yikes!  How far behind schedule will this put us?  There is a nice, bright silver lining.....it will be much easier to replace all the lighting from below instead of my 6'5" man having to do it on his belly in the attic:)

 

Moving on.  The next big change is the former master bedroom and bath. Looking from the bedroom into the vanity area and the closet beyond as work began.  In the picture on the right below, there is a closet straight ahead, and also one barely visible on the right side of the picture.  (And even further to the right is where the toilet and tub are.)

 

 

 

Now the closet is gone and there's a door to the bedroom beyond.  It's ready for a coat of paint and then we can install 2 cute little vanities I found at Lowes.

 

And there was the cramped tub/toilet area with it's lovely green tile flecked with gold:)

 

 

We removed the closet that was on the left wall and moved the entry to the shower area back some to give more space to that little room.  The new tub is installed and it's all ready for me to make tile decisions!  And the rest of the area where the closet used to be is a perfect spot for a cute little antique chest or something, with a mirror above and a lamp and and and....:) 

 

I can't wait to get the 'back half' of the house cleaned up!  I took the vacuum over this morning but the tape and bed/texture guy was finishing up and making quite a mess so it will just have to wait until tomorrow.  Hopefully I can start painting some bedrooms next week!