Day 2 - More Demo and the Wood Begins!

So after day 2, all the tile has been removed from the dining room and half of the hallway.  We also have some wood floors!  I love looking at it.  My house smells like concrete due to the dust in the air from the concrete board that was under the tile.

Here is some of our new Hardwood floor!

Here is Roxas checking out the construction.

Here is the fully demolished "dining room" and the wood floor covered for its protection.

(Not sure why there are spots on the wall... I think that was my camera)

Day 1 of the remodel - DEMO

After day 1 about 1/3 of the demo (for the wood floor) is complete.  We are now living in a construction site.  They were nice enough to plastic seal shut some entries to keep dust down.  They also put down some padding so we can walk around easier and put some plastic on the stairs so we don't track dirt upstairs.

"Dining Room" emptied for construction.

"Dining Room" 3/4 of tile removed.

Hallway about 1/3 of demo complete.

Hallway, showing more of the dust "shields"

Presidents Day at the Science Center

While construction was going on today Ellie and I went to the Science Center!  We saw that Star Trek exhibit as well as spending an hour at the new Discovery Room.

Ellie loved the dinosaurs

Playing dinosaurs with some other kids

Teepee in the Discovery Room

Fun water exhibit in the Discovery Room

Tile Demolition Starts Tomorrow!

YAY, the contractors will be here tomorrow morning to start ripping out all the old tile flooring and replacing it with wood!  I'll post some pictures of what the area looks like midway through and after they are done.

*Note:  Even though they start tomorrow, we have already paid for ~70% of the remodel.  This is mostly due to having to pay for almost all the materials already.  I mention this so others don't have the misconception that I did that the payments would be spread out more over the course of the job.

Hardwood floor arrvied

The hardwood flooring arrived at our house today.  The contractors will begin demo of the tile floors on Monday and probably be finished by Wednesday.  The flooring is acclimating to our house, which takes roughly 3 days for this product.  Other woods can take up to 10 days.  I'm super excited about the new floors!  I might be more excited about the wood floors than I am for the entire kitchen :)

In an unrelated note, I'm taking next Friday off from work and having a Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition) marathon at my house with Zach and Ryan.  If we took no breaks that would be 11.5 hours of Lord of the Rings goodness.  I expect us to be watching the movies till about 11pm at night, if we get a good 9am start time.

Updated Kitchen Design

After sitting down with our designer we changed some things and updated our design.  I also paid for my cabinets and 50% of the counter tops tonight.  Ouch, that was a large check.  The costs of the remodel are starting to become more real.  I can't wait till the work begins next Monday.  Next week the new wood flooring is getting installed.  After that there may be a week or two before the rest happens, I won't know that until we find out when the cabinets will be delivered.

Kitchen Remodel update

So, its official.  We wrote our first checks for the remodel.  We have ordered all the hardwood and tile for the floors.  Soon I should know what the timeline is for people to be in my house tearing out my floor and kitchen.

Some partial designs for my kitchen and bath.

I got some designs from my contractor for my kitchen and bath.  These don't represent the final design, but it should be relatively close.   We are planning on removing the soffit above the sink, and probably moving the dishwasher into the peninsula.