Let the walls come down...

Friday and Saturday saw substantial progress on the house.

Friday started with me stripping the downstairs bathroom of tiles and beginning - with limited success - to take out the flooring from the back rooms on the main level. This took up the better part of two hours. I then moved on to the nearby Tully's to get some work done, but my VPN connection has been acting up, so I ended up going back to the house and working on the floors until Ben returned from Bellingham.

Once he arrived, Ben and I went to Lowe's and bought 760 sqft of the tile that Cindy and I had picked out Thursday evening. We plan to use it to cover all the floors downstairs excluding the kitchen. Lugging 69 boxes of tile took up most of the afternoon Friday and, with the heat, we didn't want to do much afterward. Ben also got in touch with a couple roofing companies to come out and give bids, and he spoke with the inspector and got the go ahead to begin tearing stuff apart in full.

Later Friday evening, my roommate Pat came by and began work ripping out sheet rock in the master bedroom. Meanwhile, Cindy, Ben, and I went to Home Depot to design a kitchen. It's amazing how many ways one can use the same 10-15 foot wall space. Cindy and I both really like cherry wood with dark stained finishes, so chose the "Peppercorn" finish for our Home Depot design.

Saturday morning we got off to a late start, having spent much of the morning eating breakfast and watching Cindy's brother, Craig, in his valiant effort to win the 12 egg omelete eating competition at Beth's. He failed, however, apparently so did the guy from Man-vs.-Food, so that should lessen the shame somewhat.

Once we started though things started flying - quite literally. Our friends Liz and Sean came over to help and the four of us ripped out most of the rest of the walls in the master bedroom and living room while Ben tore up the downstairs bathroom. He also took out a couple of walls from the bathroom by chainsaw; after which we went and bought a new tub with surround and materials to extend the bathroom and change the doorway location.