If it's not one thing, it's another; as Emily Litella used to say!

We've been working like dogs... Okay, Alan's been working like a dog! I've been working like a hamster... or maybe a cat. Just kidding!!! We've both been working hard and it's driving me crazy that the appearance of progress has been kind of slow. Anyone who has done renovations knows that the mechanicals behind the walls takes the longest amount of time and is the least noticeable.

On a positive note, we do have the first furnace going (although the vents aren't hooked up quite yet) so there is heat in the house. Kind of. Lol!!! The hot air is blowing out into the basement and coming up through the holes in the floor the hubby cut for the new ducts. Those will go in next week. And I LOVE the vent covers I found at Home Depot...on sale!!! Score for me!!! And they look beautiful.



One thing that has taken forever is preping the main bathroom for the new shower, moving the sink and toilet and adding a wall. Nothing was vented correctly! But it's coming along and the copper goes in tomorrow for the all the water supply. I love that the main bathroom is going to be so much larger than it was! We bought a beautiful antique pedestal sink from our friends LuAnnn and T-Bone (yes, you read that correctly!) and I've been researching how to refinish the original clawfoot tub from the bathroom. I'm going to use Rustoleum Tub and Tile Epoxy Refinisher and can't wait to get started on that project. The interior of the tub and the feet will be white and the exterior blacl. Here's a picture of what I have in mind... We'll see how it turns out!

In the meantime, this is what the bathroom looked like tonight with all the new pipes and the shower stall. Trust me, it's going to be fabulous!!!

In the meantime, since I know NOTHING about plumbing, I've been working on getting pesky plaster removed from the lathe in all the upstairs rooms so that new wiring and blown in insulation can be added. And removing all of the wallpaper, which is quite annoying at times. It's like they used some kind of super industrial glue!!! But, slowly but surely I'm overcoming it. I'm going to try to use our clothing steamer this weekend to work on the living room and parlor downstairs to remove the layers of paper. Promise I'll take pictures. It should be fun!!!!