We Must Get to Nothing Before We Can Start Something

The demo continues...it started as a small wall, now an entire bathroom. Mark ripped our tiny little main floor bath right down to the studs...looks like it's time for a fresh start!

First day of demo...a few things we discovered.

#1 - All the walls in the house are a different thickness. This will be GREAT for trying to hang doors...can you sense my sarcasm? We haven't discovered lathe and plaster though...definitely something to be thankful for.
#2 - The tiles you see on the walls...yea, they are not really "tiles." They are plastic! Totally fooled us and everyone else who saw them. Made it a lot easier to remove, which is great. Can't believe these held up so well! They had to be installed 30-40 years ago. Wow! They've had a good life...it's now time to get out of my house!
#3 - The previous owners cut into a beam in the basement (brilliant)...and our floor is now sagging upstairs. I'm sure you can imagine the heart palpitations in the Lutz household. Freaks the hell out of us, but I'm sure we will figure it out. Pretty secure in saying that I'm sure this will not be the last "surprise" in store for us.
#4 - Through some research, I've discovered that the city of St Louis Park offers some free time with an architect to help with our remodel. Will definitely need this to figure out what to do downstairs to get our floors back in shape. We have also drawn up plans in our computer software and will get some help on questions we have. The pics on our computer software look great! I am hopeful we'll be able to do all we're wanting to do.


Bearing it All!

I came back home after a week of travel and everything was gone! Lots of progress. I'm happy to say that my new bathroom has hit rock bottom...we're only going up from here! Mark met with the plumber this week and we will likely have a shower head installed by next week and some new pipes to carry water in and out of the bathroom. The next step will be to get the underlayment installed so that we can replace the window with glass block.

Mark found something kind of neat when he was ripping the walls apart. He found a piece of newspaper from the 50's...listed homes in Edina on France and 100 selling for $14,000 with a GI loan of 4.75%. Can't believe that we have a better interest rate on this house than back in the 50's. Wish we would have been a bit closer to the sale price from back then though...

We have also picked out our new front door and are working on some custom interior doors with glass inserts to open up the space with lots of light. They are going to be great...can't wait to show them to you all.

I hope everyone has a Hoppy Easter!