Day One-seventy-four: workin' for a livin'

Yes, that's a c deliberate reference to the old Huey Lewis song, we're in a time warp. Another weekend at the house and the progress keeps inching along.


What was originally going to be a pantry in the kitchen will instead be a cabinet in our bedroom. The cabinet's ready, now all we need is a bedroom. With this paint out, a number of items in the kitchen got another coat. That room is getting pretty close to showtime.

In the twice-done bathroom, we're nearing the finish line. This weekend we filled the sometimes large gap between the floor and the tub with grout to match the rest of the floor. It should all look pretty seamless once it dries.

In our "out with the old, in with the new" mode, the basement is coming in for some serious scrutiny. Watch this time-lapse evolution of a wall in the laundry room from this:

to this:

to this:

and finally today to this:

If you're wondering about the two steps forward, one step back approach to home remodeling, we don't recommend it. But if you're trying to address some problems that you would have at the outset if you hadn't had contractors breathing down your neck to make decisions, then this is a fine model. One thing we're doing in the basement to excise lingering odors is to replace all the smelly, unusual-looking wood. The new studs above replaced ones that look like this (a clean, new 2x4 makes a nice comparison):