PICTURES FINALLY PICTURES

CODI'S ROOM
THIS WAS THE ROOM THAT USED TO HAVE DOG SHIT ON THE BEDS, AND BLOOD ON THE WALLS. IT HAD KICKED IN WALLS AND DOORS.

BRANDONS ROOM (THIS PHOTO TURNED OUT WONKY)


ISN'T HIS LITTLE CLOSET CUTE
HE HAS HIS OWN LITTLE READING AREA IN THERE

I HAVE A LINEN CLOSET!

THE BOYS BATHROOM NEW VANITY, NO MORE PINK!!!!


MASTER BEDROOM


MASTER BATHROOM. THIS IS THE ONE THAT WAS ROTTING. THE SHOWER IS NEW, THE LITTLE SHELVES WILL GET CURTAINS OVER THEM AND THE REST IS ALL NEW NEW NEW!
NEW VANITY AND MIRROR
LEAVING THE BATHROOM

NEW LIVING ROOM. THESE FLOORS USED TO BE SORT OF A GRAY COLOR FROM BEING TREATED SO SHITTY
CUTE LITTLE ENTRY...THE FLOORS USED TO BE COVERED IN NASTY DIRT AND HAIR AND GROSSNESS


KITCHEN REDOUX. NEW COUNTERS, APPLIANCES, SOME NEW CABINETS AND NEW FLOORS.



THE DINING AREA. IT WAS SO GROSS Y'ALL
WHERE I SIT AND DRINK MY COFFEE IN THE AM
TABLE THE GROSSHEADS LEFT BEHIND
PROP YOUR FEET UP AND WATCH A SHOW
CLEAN LAUNDRY ROOM!!!
WITH CLEANING SUPPLIES
DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM WITH NEW SHOWER
MIRROR WENT UP TONIGHT
STILL TO COME, THE PANTRY, ROBS GAME ROOM AND THE OUTSIDE.
ALSO THE VIDEO MONTAGE WITH BEFORE AND AFTER!
NONE OF THE SHELVES OR DECORATIONS ARE UP EITHER. STAY TUNED FOR THAT!

A tiny preview

Codi's room and closet

All the rooms are painted. We've stained the floors in one room. All that's left is touch ups, floors, and small things. Small things like attaching toilet paper rolls and drawer handles.

Can't wait!

Making major progress

LAUNDRY ROOM PAINTED AND FLOORED

DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM PAINTED, VANITY, TOILET AND SHOWER IN
DOWNSTAIRS BATH SHOWER AND VANITY
KTICHEN, ALL APPLIANCES IN, MY DAD IS PUTTING IN LIGHTING. FLOORING AND PAINT ARE DONE TOO!
CLOSE UP OF FRIDGE AND PAINT
CLOSE UP OF NEW FIBER FLOORS
NEW CABINETS AND PAINT
THIS IS THE KITCHEN PAINT COLOR, ONLY ITS MORE LIGHT GOLD IN REAL LIFE
BOYS BATHROOM WITH NEW WHITE TOILET, AND TUB. NEW VANITY AND FIBER FLOORS. THE TILE STILL LOOKS MIGHTY PINK, I'M HOPING WHEN THE WALLS ARE PAINTED IT WILL LOOK LESS WEIRD. I READ ABOUT PRIMING PAINT FOR TILES BUT I KNOW MY MOM WOULD NEVER LET ME PAINT THE TILES A MORE NEUTRAL COLOR BECAUSE THEY ARE ANTIQUES OR SOME SHIT. ISN'T THEIR FIBER FLOOR NEATO?
BRAND NEW MASTER SHOWER WITH NEW SHELVES ON THE SIDE
NEW VANITY, AND PAINTED WALLS
MASTER BATH FLOORING
MORE OF THE SHOWER AND SHELVES, I AM PAINTING THE SHELVES TO MATCH THE VANITY
ALL THE JUNK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED, MORE LIGHTING, AND TOWEL RACKS, TOILET PAPER THINGS ECT.
MAIN HOUSE COLOR.
At this point all that is left to do is paint the main house walls and sand and stain the floors. We can not paint or sand until after the party because the floors take 4-5 days. We have to paint after the floors because sanding kicks up a ton of dust meaning I would have to wash the walls twice.

I want to take a minute to talk about my dad. Watching all this stuff has made me think he's a damn genius. He can wire lights, and do plumbing, and floors and paint and it blows me away. However yesterday when the alarm people came I really understood how much different he thinks then the rest of the world. The alarm guy was telling me that because of wires they had to locate key pads, sirens, and such in really wonky stupid ass places. I explicitly said NO. I may be an idiot girl but even I knew there is more then one way to skin a cat. This asshole alarm guy actually had the nerve to argue with me. Finally my dad sensing my frustration stepped in. My dad who spends his days running thermostat and zoning wires in houses. Who knows that there is almost always a way to please the customer finally showed the guy like THREE different ways to accomplish what I want. At one point one of the guys flat out told me it was impossible to access the back side of a certain wall and my dad stood there completely dumbfounded because the backside of the wall was the goddamn garage wall. I don't know how much more accessible it could be. Or later when I said I didn't want a fucking alarm siren located in my living room. I told them I wanted it in this little cubby near the kitchen. They were adamant that it COULD NOT BE DONE. I stared at it for a second and said, "umm isn't there a closet right behind it, and below that isn't it crawl space?" Can't you just run the wires like that. The guy started getting mad at me kind of telling me he just couldn't wire it that way. Again, my dad senses that I am about 14 seconds from going atomic bitch on these guys and walks over and shows them THREE MORE ways to make my wish happen. They actually tried to argue with him not realizing, he has run all the duct work and thermostat wires int hat house, obviously he knows every inch of that place. I walked away from that install visibly upset. What bothered me most is that in the end, it seemed the alarm guys didn't want to do any more work then necessary. Total this alarm has cost me close to $3,700.00. For that much money I honestly think they could have been a little nicer, a little more willing, and a little less lazy about shit. I'm very happy my dad was there. Had he not been I think those guys would have taken advantage of me being just a young girl and forced me to have things in a way I wouldn't have been happy.

Today's progress

Brandon eating outside on the patio

Playing in his new tree fort

I call this one Studly plumbers of Reno

Peeling up the second layer of old linoleum

How many men does it take to pull up a floor

Putting in our new guest shower

Look Codi this is your new house

Yeah whatever dad I just want to chew on your screwdriver

My cousin Benny installing my shiny new GIANT water heater

The shower

This would be the carpet man. He think's he's pretty rad.

WE ALMOST HAVE CARPET

I was working very hard

The beginning of the new shelving unit

Building my new island

One of the builders showing me his big umm....tape measurer

Torching shit

My shiny new butcher block island

New cabinets almost finished

WE HAVE CARPET IN THE MAN ROOM

And glorious walls in the bathroom

Walls wonderful walls

THE BEER PONG TABLE!!!

Front of my pretty island

Movin and a shakin

LOOK WE HAVE TOILETS. THERE IS A SHOWER BEHIND THEM

THE DISHWASHER IS "IN" THE HOUSE

NEW MASTER SHOWER PAN

PRETTY NEW LIGHTING FOR THE DINING ROOM

AHEM. MY FATHER AND HUSBAND WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT THEY TOTALLY REALIZED THE KITCHEN HOOD WAS INSTALLED TO BLOCK THE DOOR. THEY ONLY LEFT IT THAT WAY TO SEE IF WE WOULD ALL NOTICE. THEY HAVE SINCE REMOVED IT AND BOUGHT A NEW ONE

MY DAD AND BRANDON RIPPING UP THE SECOND LAYER OF OLD LINOLEUM

SHINY NEW SINK ON SHINY NEW COUNTERS

EXTRA SHINY NEW CONVECTION OVEN

MY PRETTY NEW FIVE BURNER GAS RANGE. OOOO BABY

LOOK LOOK THERE IS HALF A WALL IN THE DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM NOW. AND ALSO..PLUMBING!!!!!

STILL REMOVING FLOORS

BRAND NEW FART FAN LIGHT COMBOS (FART FAN IS A TECHNICAL TERM)

MASTER SHOWER RELOCATED TO NEW WALL

NICELY GROOMED BACK YARD!

I BEGING PACKING AND MOVING TOMORROW. WE HOPE TO BE FULLY MOVED IN BY NEXT FRIDAY IN TIME FOR THE HUGE PARTY ON THE 30TH. IF YOU KNOW ME IN REAL LIFE, I AM HAVING A MOVING PARTY ALL WEEK. YOUR ALL INVITED. I WILL PAY YOU WITH PIZZA AND BEER!

TOMORROW THE PLUMBERS PLAN TO FINISH ALL THE DRAINS AND THE FLOOR GUY WILL INSTALL CARPET. SATURDAY MY DAD AND HUSBAND WILL BE SANDING THE HARDWOOD PREPPING IT FOR VARNISH AND STAIN AND WHAT EVER OTHER SHIT YOU PUT ON HARD WOOD. WE HOPE TO HAVE NEW KITCHEN FLOORS AND BATHROOM FLOORS THIS WEEK!

Mold, rot and a cherry on top

Yesterday I walked into the house to see this. That would be the master bathroom floor laying in the master bedroom. Lets look closer

This would be where the water went all the way around the bathroom and under the master bedroom hardwood floors. They are now warped and damaged.

If you look to the bottom left you can see the water damage better

But wait, step inside.


Then you can see the mold. The builder buddy was pulling up the old floors and came across this

Lots and lots of black mold.

This is a close up of the flooring he had pulled out. Both sides of the wood were covered in mold

This was the piece that went around the toilet

MOLD!!!!!

Today I walked in to find out that under the bathtub/shower were WARPED FLOORS! They removed the tub and found this. Look close, in the middle left of the picture you can see the wood was so warped all of its layers were seperating

The entire section to the right of the pipes had to be removed (pictures of that tomorrow). The builder told me that had we not caught this the bathtub would have actually fallen through the wood. NEAT! If you look down those holes you can see directly into the downstairs bathroom.

Close up of the massive water damaged floor under the tub. Every day we find more shit to repair!

One more close up just so I can stress THERE WAS A FUCKING LEAK. IT MADE THE FLOORS WARP AND FALL APART. BATHTUB WOULD HAVE SUNK IN. MOTHERFUCKER RENTERS!

Almost looking down into the guest bathroom

The master bathroom totally gutted, you can see through into my secret hiding space (aka my attic)

It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's.......

SUPER BUILDERS

3 trucks worth!

Under the sink is all ripped out. This is the future home of a garbage disposal, just to the left, those cabinets are the future home of a shiny stainless steal dishwasher

How many builders does it take to change a light bulb?

My dad ripped out my old cook top. That is the future home of a shiny new gas stove. I will get pictures of the giant trench they dug to run me a gas line

I walked upstairs to find the pink sink and floor laying in the hallway

The pink bathroom is no more. I've also been advised that they will be repainting the pink tub white. I didn't even know they could do that. I guess there are special bathtub repainting shops.

Walking into the master bathroom I discovered the cabinets laying in a pile.

By by purple sink and ugly cabinets

We have been advised to list these old funny colored things on Craigs List in San Francisco

They are also pulling out the rotten bathtub in the master bathroom and putting in a shiny new Shower. In the downstairs bathroom they will be moving the water heater and putting in a shiny new shower. In the boys bathroom they will be ripping the weird doors off the bathtub, repainting it and fixing it all up into a shiny new tub.