First Reactions

And when your done you'll groan in pain.  We have been working hard on the house and its been working on us.  We have gotten all the of the flooring ripped up.  And these are my tools of the day                                                    Knee Pads and needle nose pilers.  You say "Bethany? What are you doing?" This! BLOODY! HORRIBLE STAPLES !  I pulled hundreds! HUNDREDS! Of staples! And this was just the stair case. Every. single. carpeted. room. was like this.  So while I did this method on the stair case, we used a side walk edger (which back in the day in my great-grandma's barn we used one as a manure scraper.) It knocked the staples out pretty well, even though we will still have to go through the house and pull the stragglers. And the discovery of the day while Dean was rolling up  the carpet padding in the living room, we found this under this padding.... Who Carpets over a brick hearth?  We love this find an

And we've been working hard..... Our "new to us" house is FINALLY empty! And we have been working hard for the past few days on getting it kinda cleaned up. We've have taken a big job under our belts and we're just grabbing roots and growling all the way.                                                                              This is littlest bedroom in the house, its going to be our guest room.  To get it up to snuff its going to need wall, door repairs, new carpet, paint and windows.   This is the upstairs bathroom. Don't you just love our harvest gold bathtub? In order to hide the hideous, I'm going to paint the walls a golden yellow.  To get it looking better it needs, new flooring, vanity, mirror, and paint.    This is going to be our room.  It needs paint, carpet, a closet door, and new windows.    Behind the door with the fan is going to be Baby Girl's room. Even though its one foot bigger than room that chose