Some walls are down

We haven't been in to the house for 2 days, Phuong went over last night and this what has been going on!

The wall between the dining room and kitchen has been opened and the kitchen is gone!

Very little left of the downstairs bathroom

Upstairs bathroom mostly gone too!

Cant wait to see it in person myself.

Most of the stuff we picked out has been ordered and will be arriving soon.

And more stuff to remove

This weekend we did a ton of stuff, well sort of. We met with our contractor and he sent us to multiple places.
This is everything we picked out: kitchen tile, kitchen countertops. Pretty much everything for the mainfloor bathroom. Upstairs bathroom tile. Paint for the living room, dining room, kitchen, sunroom and guest bedroom. Dining room chandelier!

Tomorrow we go order the kitchen cabinets

All that shopping was so exhausting, but then we went over the get some more lovely wall treatments removed. Every surface of this house was covered in something.

And now for more pictures:

This is one of the upstairs bedroom. It is covered in flowery wallpaper, and those were the ugly curtains.

And this is how much wallpaper I was able to remove in an hour. AHHHH!!!

This is the master bedroom, yup that is gorgeous 1970's woodpaneling

And if we thought wallpaper glue was bad, this is the lovely stuff left behind from the removal of woodpaneling--we dont even have a clue what to do with this. HELP! Not sure if we should just put up drywall over it, or if there is something to remove the glue.

And a photo of the upstairs bathroom, yup thats a pink toilet- the whole bathroom is being gutted and we already picked out the tile, its going to be awesome! We cant seem to find a vanity that we really like for this bathroom, so our search for that continues. And dont worry we will be going for a white toilet, you know normal. This is a full bath you just cant tell cause the shower is behind the door, but we are changing it to a bathtub anyways. 

More updates to come as they happen. 

This Old House

Today we closed on our first home. It is a total fixer upper. The same family lived there since it was built in 1942 and it looks like little updates have been done since the 60s.
Here is our journey as we gut the kitchen, redo the bathrooms, strip wallpaper, remove shag carpet and make it all our own.

Front view

part of the yard--way too many overgrown bushes

In the dining room looking towards the living room

(that is leftover wallpaper paste all over the walls--the second we closed we went over the the house and started taking down wallpaper)

Yes that is faux brick and wood paneling--but that whole wall is coming down to open the dining room to the kitchen.

Yes the kitchen is getting fully gutted- goes out to the sunroom

Guest bedroom (once again wallpaper paste on the walls)

Main floor bathroom- total gut job

I forgot to take pictures of the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom, those are just as covered in wallpaper as the downstairs.

Show you more progress pics along the way!

-Eli