rock drop, music city

so a lot has happened since my last post.

the house is still in shambles, but ronnie and 

i stayed up until almost 3am last tuesday to 

get everything completed in order to hand over

the house to our sheet rock guy the next day.

since then, all the sheet rock is hung and he is 

working hard on all the mudding and taping. 

meanwhile, we are removing wallpaper from the 

basement and ripping up that carpet. 

cale is busy moving a couple windows and relocating

our fireplace in the living room.

it wasn't until much later in the demo process that we 

noticed the windows and fireplace were not centered in the room.

i was hoping to disguise it with curtains, but it was 

driving ronald crazy, so it's all coming down.

ok, so this pic is old because obviously we've removed that wall to the left.

BUT can you see how the fireplace does not line up with the center of the ceiling?

and how there is a lot more room to the left of the windows than on the right?

that's all getting aligned. 

this was the laundry closet. it is now studded in

and will be brette closet.

so the room you are looking into with the window, is brette's room.

this was walled off with a door down to the basement.

we have removed all the walls and will add a railing so it

feels more open.  you can also see at the bottom of the stairs how the 

wall has been removed. we will also add a railing down there, to

open the stairs to the basement rec room.

this is the master bedroom looking into the bath and closet.

we removed the fireplace (the hole in the wall) and everything

out of the bathroom so we could relocate the shower and add an extra closet.

this is looking into the garage from the family room.

you can see the floor that was laid for our new 

laundry/mud room.

this is an old pic, because we actually have walls up now.

so lots to do and finish up. 

let's just say, this house project is HUGE. 

after our rock guy is done, we move into trimming all

the doors and windows, install cabinetry and start 

tiling all the bathroom floors and showers. 

then paint.

and flooring.

AND THEN WE MOVE IN.

i know we're so far away, but i like when i can list things like that.

it makes it feel doable. 

once we handed over the house to our rock guy, ronnie and i left 

for a long weekend away to nashville. 

a friend of ours turned 30 and we headed out of town to celebrate. 

it was good timing because there wasn't a lot we could do at the house 

and ronnie was getting a bit burned out spending every evening there

after putting in a full day at work. 

there were 7 of us that went and we rented a house, which

ended up being the perfect choice.

it was a great house and it let us all hang out together after

coming home from downtown nashville and gave us the option

to have a few meals at home.

i totally recommend traveling this way if you're going in a group. 

we spent our days on the pedal tavern, checking out the country

music hall of fame, the ryman and lots of bars filled with live music.

i swear, everyone is so talented. 

and now we're back. 

i've spend two nights already at our new house,

just mowing the yard and i'm going back tonight. 

i can't wait to move in and be done with this.