Week 3

Things are really moving along this weekend. We demo'ed the exterior walls in the MB (master bedroom) today, and discovered that we didn't have to demo the two interior walls (nice surprise!). The north facing wall in the MB is buttressed to our shed/laundry room. The shed is not sheetrocked, so we have access to install the outlets without tearing down the wall. We were able to cut out access for the light switches (pictured below), so once again no wall removal. Sweet.

Christina scraped all of the popcorn off of the ceiling in the MB.
It was a nice change from the living room, as this popcorn was not superglued with paint. Still work, but it comes down much quicker.

Good news is that we are really close to being able to insulate and start hanging sheetrock. Our electrician should have the living room, front bedroom, and middle bedroom all ready to go Monday night. I'll spend the rest of the week hanging insulation, and that is going to make me REALLY happy!

Special shout-out to Beth and Chad for bringing us Red Mill burgers for dinner. The burgers were awesome, we inhaled them! We're lucky to have such good friends ;)

Below is the MB as of tonight. We were able to keep the bed/dresser tightly wrapped, so we didnt need to move the bed out of the room. We are happy to be able to sleep in it tonight!!


Yes, this is Christina posting the new pictures. Too dorky to blog about blogging?

One-Year Anniversary

We took a break from work and spiffied ourselves up for our one-year anniversary. We went to dinner Monday night at How to Cook A Wolf, a posh scene-ster restaurant on Queen Anne. It mostly lived up to all of its hype. Then we visited Uber (our favorite tavern/beer haven hands down)-- it was a perfect anniversary!


Here we are at dinner (looking lovingly into each other's eyes - barf) ...























And here are a couple of goofy ones of us at Uber, and a stalker shot of our favorite bar-tender who we heart. (and don't all of those beer signs behind her look tasty! mmm... franziskaner...)










We enjoyed greatly the Black Butte XX on tap (an imperial porter/black ale version to their standard Black Butte Porter- yum!) among other tasty choices such as the Mad River Steelhead Double IPA, the Flying Dog Gonza Imperial Porter and a staple, the Duchesse de Bourgonge.

Eric was sad to leave....Cheers to a GREAT first year of marriage.... luv u babes

This Weekend's Work (continued)

One of the pleasures of opening the walls of your house is finding all the lovely things that are lurking behind them. As mentioned in the previous entry, we found a serious case of dry rot on the south wall of our second bedroom. We were told by the inspector that the mold on our wall looked old, so most likely there was a leak in the roof that was fixed many moons ago, but the damage was not taken care of. What you see in the before and after pictures is dry rot that spread from the studs to the sides of the house. I replaced all of the affected studs, but there is still a lot of dry rot on the siding of the exterior wall. When we re-side the house in a couple of years we will have access to the rotted siding under our vinyl siding, we will be able to replace the remaining dry rot. Helpful hint to all you DIY'ers out there (courtesy of my dad, Don), to stop dry rot from spreading, mix a 50/50 solution of Clorox and water and give it a good spray down. Ahh, bleach. What doesn't it do??
Before:

During:
After:
In the walls, we also found a newspaper from January 1951 and a good share of cobwebs ;)
This is Christina after scraping popcorn off the ceilings for a few hours.... and then some artsy shots.

This Weekend's Work

Weekend #2 of our house remodel project--- we put in a lot of hours again this weekend, although a lot of it was finishing demolition work from last weekend and scraping the ceilings, so the changes aren't as dramatic. Since photos speak larger than words, here are a few.

Here is Christina prying out drywall (the floors were installed after the drywall went up so it was a pain in the who-ha to get it out)








The next two pictures show the rotted wood we found in the middle bedroom (office). The roof used to have a leak (20 years ago?). Eric is working on replacing the 2x4's.



Below is a picture of our kitchen "wall" looking into the mud room.

... and at least some of our house is still put together.

Christina does work too, other than taking pictures. Here she is scraping the ceilings in the middle bedroom.

Below shows the ceiling in the living room. The popcorn was painted over (a couple of times?) so it is not so easy to scrape off. This little section probably took 2 hours. It's a good shoulder work out (feel the burn!).

And last but not least, the electrical work has started, and we are excited to see multiple plug-ins in each room, rather than just one or two. Hooray!

And SLOWLY we are getting to landscaping the front yard.... at least it's a start.


Saturday we had a nice visit with Christina's Dad, who came over to wish us a happy one-year anniversary. And a shout out to Jim who fixed our internet :) Thanks, Jim!

Day 2: We Heart Our Friends

Day 2 of the Remodel Job--- and our friends came out in droves! We accomplished tearing out nearly all of the interior walls, including taking down the wood paneling, which Scott, Christian and Eric mastered! The Ladies (Christina, Marebeth & Ligaya) mastered the office walls.

Eric 1, Hammer 0



Thank you again, to Scott, Marebeth, Christian & Ligaya!!

"Before" & Day #1

This blog is dedicated to our house remodel project, starting in July 2008.

Our goals were to: re-do the electrical, insulate the walls, put up new walls, paint and put up trim. Here are some pictures of getting ready for demo and of the first weekend of extensive demolition ;)

DAY ONE

(Above) dumpster delivered, a picture of the very dirty vent & popcorn ceilings, and Eric prepping the front bedroom for demolition!

(Below) The walls start coming down and the popcorn is gone!