Day Thirty-one: We're counting down to moving in

This has been a week of consolidation and steady progress. The walls upstairs are all prepped for painting. The main floor bathroom is awaiting only the vanity and then countertop. The laundry room and its Spanish tiles are looking great. 

Oh, and not to be discounted has been the removal of a ton of junk. Having never gone through something like this, it is truly astounding how much material can be taken out of a house without knocking down all the interior walls and tearing up the floors. I guess there's something about seeing it distributed throughout a house compared with seeing it in a heap at the end of the driveway. Must be the law of conservation of mass/matter or something. 

That concludes the high school science section of this exam. So let's move onto the visual acuity test.

Can you tell the difference between these two ceilings?

If you said "One has a ceiling" then you'd be correct. We've opted to replace the drop ceiling tiles with sheetrock. There are aesthetic reasons for this and more importantly a big practical one--we think the tiles absorbed 25 years of creosote from the wood-burning stove in the basement. Out with the smelly old and in with the clean new!

The downstairs bathroom continued to lose key pieces now that the upstairs bath is functional and we have a working utility sink in the laundry room.

The studio upstairs also has lost something--multiple layers of paint and wallpaper. Not quite as dramatic, but we consider the excavation to be our version of Pompeii.