Hello everyone. Hope this finds you all well. Last week was a really productive week for us. We met with the Hardwood floor man last Tuesday. He is awesome!!! Says he has seen worse than what we have and has been in his line of work for over 20 years. He's a total hippie, older, and knows what he is doing. Here is his before and after gallery so you can see some of his beautiful work. http://www.zenhardwood.com/Gallery.html

I painted more cabinet doors for the rental side throughout the week. I just put on music I can sing my heart out to and paint away for hours.

This is how the cabinets looked before.

This is with the cabinet doors off.

Painted Cabinets!!!!!!!

So Gross. This is what was behind the cabinet on the Rental side.

On Saturday, our friend Nate came over to look at all the walls. He does really great drywall work and gave us the run down on what needs to be done before he can come in and do his magic:) It was fun talking about which walls we could keep that are in good shape and the other ones that we would have to beat the hell out of.

This is Nate and Daniel talking about the walls.

The wall in the living room on "Our Side"-Before

Walls in the Kitchen on "Our Side"- Before

Ready to DEMO!!!! This was today:)

Kitchen Wall- After Pic

Daniel's wall in the Living Room- After Pic

Oh YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

Ceiling Time.

Crazy huh????

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~Before~

~After~

Today, we (Daniel and I) got to really get after those walls that needed to be removed. We worked from 2:00 PM to 6:45PM and feel GREAT!!!! Man I love working hard and seeing the instant results. "Our side", that will be our future home looks like a scene of destruction. Oh YEAH!!!!!!!!! It looks amazing:) So crazy, to see the before and after from just today. We were so dusty and gross, but oh is was so fulfilling. We came back to our other home, took nice long showers, and talked about how very thankful we are that we can come to a 2nd home and have the privilege to bath in a hot shower. Just think of all the people that work in rock quarries, or mines, or any hard labor job and can't go home and take a simple hot bath... warm bath... even cold bath. How much we have to be thankful for in our day to day lives. Nothing is small. So, as Daniel and I sit here on the couch all nice and clean, we look forward to the many days ahead where we can work hard for what we have been given and always be reminded how we can never take that for granted.

Cheers to the rest of your week.

~A~