happy anniversary

one year ago today, we walked through the open house held at what has now become our cosmetic fixer. ahhh memories. to commemorate this special weekend, we demo-ed the room formerly known as the laundry room. on saturday we pulled out the existing cabinets and built-in pantry.

here's the lovely skanky pantry in the laundry room (we never dared use).



here are the cabinets in the laundry room that would have resided over a washer and dryer.



a little muscle and our good friends superbar and sawzall got that pantry right out of there.



the laundry cabinets were cake for pros like us.



on sunday, with a little help from a friend, we took down the plaster and lathe from two walls.





after the friend exited, we tackled the laundry room floor - only 3 layers of linoleum, plus rotten particle board - yippee! and we still weren't done...



monday was a short day that entailed finishing laundry room floor removal and beginning powder room wall and floor removal. check out the original hex tile floor in the powder room:



of course, we only had several layers to dig through to find it.



we're tired.