Kitchen floors, fixing holes in floor, scraping chimney, lugging rubbish and stripping paint!

Stripping paint off the banister!

Builders Bum!! Sorry Rofo, I had to!

Kitchen lano ripped up...now the daunting task  of scraping the floor (see above!) ;-)

Fixing holes with new fir flooring.

Sanded Floors

So while I was at a course this last weekend, Rofo was on his hands and knees with 4 different sanders.  Needless to say, he is very sore today....but....we have some nice fir floors now! Rofo and Graham realized it was much harder work than anticipated because of the 7 layers to get through (4 layers of lino, 1 layer of tar stuff, 2 layers of paint).  The kitchen still needs to get done...but I think we have to gove Graham a weekend off, he's been working a month straight!

 

 

ACTUAL Renovations begin....

It's all getting exciting....
1) We've replaced our roof (with skylights!), which apparently should have been done 20yrs ago!

2) We've moved the basement door out of the kitchen and into the main floor hallway!
3) We've torn down walls and lifted up the lino on the main floor to expose the original fir floors which we will refinish.

Graham & Rolf in the area between the living room & dining room.

Kitchen view to front door

 

Entrance Hallway

Dining Room To Be

 

Every weekend going forward there will be a project until we move in in April/May of 2010.
Light is shining through now...not so dark and we can picture what it will be like, very fun.