Progress

Scott's parents and my dad (my mom wasn't able to make it this time) flew in last week and TONS of progress was made on our house.  I am on my summer break from school and Scott had 5 days off in a row so we were thankful it worked for the parents to come at that time.  We also have an amazingly creative and talented man in our neighborhood who has agreed to work for us (something he never does as he usually only does his own projects - I think he just felt sorry for us though honestly).  He helped us come up with the floor plan for the house in March/April, and is awesome at recycling what we already have and making do with supplies, but still doing it "right" so that it will last and finally be up to code.

So, without further ado, here is a video of where we're at two days ago...already there are changes from this as I think we are FINALLY done destructing and tearing apart and onto the best part: construction.

What Scott's dad (our electrical engineer) looked like after cutting all the holes for the can lights in the living room.  His mouth is slightly cleaner only from the mask he was wearing.

My dad (our master plumber) working on some plumbing.  He got the whole drain system for the house completed - a task that would have cost us thousands of dollars and was super overwhelming to Scott.  The underneath of our house looks 10x's better now due to his nice lay out of the pipes and the fact that we can finally walk around without running into one.

We managed to clean up in the evenings for dinner and were able to go out with some of our good friends, the Morgans, on Friday evening.

Also, we finally decided to take out the stairs that used to be in the middle of the living room.  That was Scott's big project last week while all the family was here.  It was tricky because he had to cut out and replace a big beam they had moved from where a door used to be, so that there would be adequate support for the exterior wall.  I think it looks very nice now though and will make the whole room flow better.  Our flooring guy is coming as soon as he gets a free day in the next week to lay new (very old) flooring we found on Craig's list that was taken out of a different house.  It was difficult to find and a very happy discovery when we found a good deal on just the amount we needed, as that flooring is old heart pine and an inch thick and three inches wide. That area will then match the rest of the room and he will plug holes we no longer need where pipes and wires came into rooms that are no longer rooms, but open floor space.

  

View from the top

View from under the house