So it's day 4 of the remodel. We spent two hours working on the place.


Jeremy fixed all the exterior lighting.


I textured the largest wall in bedroom 1.

You can't really see the detail here but the wall now looks more like plaster rather than just dry wall.

Meanwhile, Jeremy worked on the bathroom.

He managed to get all the baseboards up - only breaking one in the process. That's the least of our worries with this room.


There are a few different levels of subflooring going on in here...

So about the bathroom.

Today I was freaking out in my head about the bathroom. It was the end of the world as far as I was concerned. So I called my buddy Mario's friend Jon who happens to be a contractor. He also happens to be a life saver and a DIY confidence booster. He met me over at the house on my lunch break and took a look at the bathroom. He said that for a girl that played roller derby and has already taken a sledge hammer to some of the tile that I should just run with it. He told me exactly what to do:
1. Carefully remove the baseboards.
2. Take out ALL of the floor. You know that scene in Beetle Juice where the dead guy opens the door to the house and it's all sand and that monster is swimming through it. He said to tear it out to that point. Where you open the door and fall into nothing and get eaten by monsters.
3. Screw new joists to the old joists.
4. Lay plywood on top of all that
5. (optional) Lay concrete board on top of the plywood.
6. Tile.
7. Replace baseboards.

I also called a few floor refinishing places to get some bids on refinishing the wood floors in bedrooms one and two. It looks like either $2.60 or $3.00 a square foot to refinish the floors. We'll probably go with whoever can get it done the quickest.

In addition to Jon giving me some solid bathroom floor advice he also told me that the Lowes cabinets we're looking at are crap. He said that if we plan on being in the house for more than a few years that we should really look into getting a cabinet maker in there to build us custom hardwood cabinets. He gave me a few numbers to call for some guys that do a good job and aren't completely booked. Jeremy called one of the guys and booked us an appointment for tomorrow evening. He can start building the cabinets as soon as next week!

Overall, we're feeling overwhelmed but just taking everything one step at a time. But we do know this - our home is going to be fantastic. I can't wait to have our housewarming BBQ.

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