Progress!!

I promised you progress pictures today and I am going to deliver! Hmm where to start? Well, first I would like to give you a run down of what we are working on and what our timeline looks like.

We are planning on moving-in in about a month to two months. It will all depend on what we can get done and how smoothly things go. Our list of things to do before we move includes:

1. Gutting the upstairs and making it into a big master bedroom
2. Gutting the bathroom and updating it
3. Sanding and painting the cabinets in the kitchen
4. Painting all the walls and ceilings in the house (the previous owners smoked, so all the walls and ceilings need to be painted to cover up the smell and color) 
5. Updating the electric
6. Updating the plumbing

So we have been steadily working on this list. Jonathan has been working his normal job during the day, coming home for dinner, and then heading to the house every evening. I have been helping where I can. Since my carpentry stills are *ehm* somewhat limited *ehm*, I do what I can. But enough of this background junk, on to the pictures!

So without further ado let's start with the kitchen:

As you can see all of the cupboard doors have been removed. The laminate tiles have been scraped off of the counter on the right side of the kitchen (top picture). I have also been sanding everything. First I pulled off the doors and all the hardware. Then I started pulling out nails and scraping down the cabinets. Now I am on to the sanding part. Once that is done, all the wood will be painted white (the trim, doors, and cabinets) and then we are going to just paint right over the walls. The walls are actually paneling and I am afraid to pull it all down, so a nice coat of primer and paint should do the job.

Now on to the rest of the downstairs:

We pulled the sink in the bathroom. Can you see how the wall sort of bows out? Well, because of that, we have decided to gut the bathroom. There was no way to fix it well without ripping out the rest of the wall. Oh plaster and lathe; how I hate you.

Then there is the guest bedroom and our living room. As you can see we pulled all of the carpet in each room and these rooms are just patiently waiting to be painted. I can't start priming and painting until Jonathan is done pulling all the plaster and cleaning it up. Otherwise my walls would be covered in dust and primer :)

And last but not least, the piece-de-resistance! The upstairs!!!:

 A view from the stairs

 No ceiling (I'm trying to convince Jonathan to keep it this way :) ) 

 Another view. Along the wall by the window is where the closets used to be.

 Where our bed will eventually be.

 Another view. Looking at the stairwell.

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From the stairwell looking at the doorway into the room. 

Eventually this wall will be completely gone. 

And there you have it! Can you start to picture what the upstairs is going to look like when it is all done?! When I took these pictures I kept 'ooo-ing' and 'ahh-ing' because it felt so open and airy. I can't wait till we start putting the drywall up!!