We closed on the house Friday morning at 9 am. Right after signing a few papers and handing over thousands and thousands of dollars we went back to the house and immediately got to work.




The first thing we did is tear out the carpet in bedrooms one and two. The floors are in decent shape. Bedroom one has some water damage but we'll just say it gives it character.


We spent hours pulling out staples and getting the carpet tack strip out of both rooms.



We'll be calling flooring people first thing in the morning to see about getting them refinished.

We also tore down all the left over curtains, sconces, metal blinds, etc. and made a nice pile on our driveway. Fortunately OKC has a big trash day once a month (booyah, Norman) and it happens to be this week.

Then we decided to tackle the bathroom.

We took one hit to the tile and found treasure underneath.

Hexagon penny tile that is most likely original to the house. We were beyond excited and felt like we had hit the jack pot.


The progress was coming along nicely.


We were thinking we could just take a sander and buffer to the tile and it would be as good as new.

And then I saw this.


Hmm... Still probably salvagable, I thought...

And then it got worse.

Okay, so maybe we can't save the tile. Maybe we'll have to patch up this corner and replace all the tile with something else.

And then it got even worse.


And worse.

I got scared and had to stop.

It looks like we'll have to rip out all the tile and completely replace the subfloor. We also need to figure out if there is still a leak (which there most likely is) and stop it at the source so this sort of thing doesn't happen again.

I'm calling a few contractors first thing in the morning regarding this situation as well.

We also managed to get all the exterior landscape lighting and the porch light working. We're anxiously waiting for it to get dark enough outside to check out how good it's going to look.

Oh, and we went to Lowes and started the kitchen remodel process. We'll meet with the planner again on Wednesday to finalize and order new cabinets and countertops.

In the meantime I will continue to agonize over the perfect shade of white.

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