Adventures at The Bunny Manse

There's the beautiful princess tub that I looked for on Craigslist for over a year. That Harris almost didn't get because we got into an argument the morning he was to go get, that Madeline rescued from adult drama by quietly saying, 'but my princess tub...' with her head hung low making the adults feel pretty low.  It's been sitting, waiting upstairs, for two-ish years.   There was a gross shower here. Now it is gone forever and the tub will go there using existing plumbing.  Us checking out paint colors. We all mutually decided we liked a peachy pink color for the walls.   Harris getting rid of paneling after I got rid of the shower stall. Well, I unscrewed and unbolted everything so he could chuck it in the dumpster across the street. The last of the paneling is now gone from the house. I think. I'm sure I'll find another little bit here or there.  The tile arrived in August.  Harris built a partition wall...

There's the beautiful princess tub that I looked for on Craigslist for over a year. That Harris almost didn't get because we got into an argument the morning he was to go get, that Madeline rescued from adult drama by quietly saying, 'but my princess tub...' with her head hung low making the adults feel pretty low.  It's been sitting, waiting upstairs, for two-ish years.   There was a gross shower here. Now it is gone forever and the tub will go there using existing plumbing.  Us checking out paint colors. We all mutually decided we liked a peachy pink color for the walls.   Harris getting rid of paneling after I got rid of the shower stall. Well, I unscrewed and unbolted everything so he could chuck it in the dumpster across the street. The last of the paneling is now gone from the house. I think. I'm sure I'll find another little bit here or there.  The tile arrives next week. We need to buy a new sink/v...

 Plaster repair should start again any day now! To get ready for that, Harris has been spending his mornings finishing the demo and lots of little projects here and there. The most important one so far is the suit bathroom downstairs which will give Madeline and me a proper bathtub again.   The floor joists were existing, but the layers of nasty plywood had to go. Harris also found and fixed a broken pipe while he was down there.     Putting the ceiling up. We're using tongue and groove wainscot boards for the ceiling in the suite bathroom.   Finished!  View from the doorway. We're going to use the leftover boards to make a boarder at the top. It will be the same height as the window casing/top moulding would have been were it still in place. Once the plaster has been finished here we can install the tile, tub, and toilet and have a beautiful bathroom downstairs.  Meanwhile...upstairs.... At some point they enclos...

The crew has salvaged the pine and oak for replacement throughout the house! And we get to briefly see the original subfloor that was supporting everything. They are going to cover this is floor sheathing and then we'll run the new floor on top of it. Right now we're thinking a red oak, but that might change depending on what we find out in the world. The original subfloor runs diagonal to the room, you can already see the new floor underlayment where there was massive termite damage.

We've got Bill and James helping us finish up the last bits of "cleaning" before the home tour. This involves putting junk,OSB, boards into the dumpster, putting metal all in the same place for my metal run, and pulling nails. LOTS AND LOTS OF NAILS. Ed is going to finish the plaster in the hallway this week and then the floor joists get repaired from the termite damage. Tonight we're going to give the outside a once over so that it's tidy and not a trash pile, pull nails in the floors upstairs, and get all of the rooms broom clean. From there, we actually can start cleaning; maybe we'll mop!

Insanity. plaster repair is under way. Termites are dead or suffering with 140 gallons of Termidor. Bill pulled up the first layer of vinyl this evening and put a bunch of junk outside for the dumpster that arrives on Thursday.

In the kitchen we excavated through seven layers.... top layer of glued on vinyl OSB floor tiles (the glue down 1sqft kind) Layer of plywood Floor tiles (the glue down 1sqft kind) Layer of chip board (still smells like pine when it's broken) Original linoleum THEN Two inch wide planks on top of a sub-floor! But maybe you want a better sense of what we're getting in to up here...