So this past month has been extremely busy! Vinni closed on the house February 27th which was a Monday and on Tuesday we started tearing the place apart (literally). I wasn't able to be at the closing since I had to work, but Sam sent me a picture of Vinni signing the paperwork...he is officially a homeowner!
Once he signed the papers we were so excited to start working on the house. The first week we (Vinni and I) tore out all the carpet, carpet padding, linoleum flooring, base boards, casing on the doors, kitchen cabinets, appliances and wood paneling--it was extreme and we were both exhausted!
Day 1
We started with the baseboards. We cut all the caulking on the top of them so that we were able to easily stick a crowbar into the top and loosen them from the wall. This sounded fairly easy until we realized that the carpet needed to come up before the trim came off because the previous homeowners laid the carpet after all the trim was installed.
We started in the living room and then continued throughout all the bedrooms.
There was a lot of trim to take off!
I couldn't believe the amount of dirt under all of the carpet. The family room was the worst especially because it had the original 1970's carpet and padding underneath.
For our first day of demo, we got a lot done!
Day 2
The next day (or night I should say, considering we were doing all of this work after our day jobs) I was itching to take the paneling off of the fireplace wall. This was something that had to be done before it got too dark outside because we had no overhead lighting in this room.
Here's the fireplace without the paneling...doesn't it already look better?!
Next we pried the casing off of all interior doors including closets.
After the casing was finished, we started in the kitchen...
We found that we couldn't pull out the dishwasher until the linoleum flooring was pulled up.
The first cabinet to come down!
Surprise! We found a vintage (and unfortunately ugly) 1970's floor!
The worst part of this kitchen was tearing up the linoleum flooring. The previous homeowners decided that instead of tearing up the 1970's flooring, they would just lay some plywood on top of it and lay the new floor over the plywood(!). Yikes! This created a ton of work and multiple headaches. When we pulled the wood up, the nails popped through the bottom, so after we got the wood off we spent another hour+ pulling out a thousand nails!
It was a process...
Since the 1970's flooring is plastered to the subfloor and not raised enough to create an elevation change, we figured it will be fine to lay the hardwood directly over it---that way in 40 years a new couple can tear the floor out and find this fun little "surprise".
More to come in the next post...
T.
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