Starting Up - Part I

Like last summer, we were very busy with the kids and their activities.  It was Carlee's last year of T-ball before she moves onto softball league next year.  It was also Carter's last year of playing in the minor baseball league.  Next year, he will move onto the major league.  So after all this excitement was over, we decided to try and squeeze in some remodeling.  Originally it started out as just the master bedroom and just adding one window in Carlee's room.  Being that we were doing the master bedroom, we thought adding in Carlee's east facing window would make the outside look a little more balanced as far as the windows go.  All of sudden, plans were turned upside down and we decided to hit the whole upstairs at once, which includes everyone's rooms and the master bathroom.

Next thing I knew, six new windows were ordered (two for each room).  Therefore, the demolition began and we are focusing on the whole upstairs.  We want to get the bedrooms completely redone.  Being that we will be making a a mess already in the master bedroom, we decided to partially start the master bathroom as well.  (This project is getting bigger and bigger.)  Although, when we have the master bedroom finished, we don't really want to create a huge mess in our room again with the newly refinished floors, so we're going to do the drywall and floors as well.  We plan on leaving the main fixtures for later.  As long as we get the rough-in plumbing done, the drywall, and the main floor done, then we will focus on the rest later.

Here are just a few "before" pictures.

This would've been a picture taken shortly after we moved here of Carlee's room (AKA northeast bedroom).  We already took out the carpet and painted over the paneling.  I'm sure I have a picture somewhere.


Found one! See the pic below. Doesn't show the whole room, but you can obviously tell Carlee wasn't happy about her room ONE BIT!  LOL
(Northeast Bedroom) 

Just a more recent picture of Carlee's room.
This one shows the where a hole was cut into the ceiling  to install a heat duct./AC supply. (Happened in August 2015)
(Northeast bedroom)

 Carter's room (northwest room)

This was Carter's room being painted a LONG TIME AGO! (2009)  Look how small Carter was!

This is what it looked like after we recently took the paneling off.  We let everyone stay in their rooms as long as possible.

And of course, this is what the outside looked like just a few months ago.  Focus on the windows because that is all that was updated.

Now onto the messy pictures.  In order to do what needed to be done for the furnace and the rough-in for master bathroom, we had to tear apart the main level southwest room.  Bye bye suspended ceiling.  Hello high ceilings again!

More plaster gone

The format of this post keeps fighting with me on pictures.  I'm going to go ahead and create a new post and continue from there.  Hopefully that will get rid of the problem I'm having.