A Deadline and A Discovery

Did you know that when we bought this house we were planning on leaving everything as is for the Winter so we could get settled in? What were we thinking! My husband and I both LOVE fixing up and working on houses. We had been waiting, semi-patiently, for 6 years to buy our own house. Like we were going to be able to wait to make it our own. Plus, I have not mentioned this yet, but you may already be figuring this out, the hubby Can't. Sit. Still. He likes to work. To stay busy. Be productive. It is a good thing though since we had just taken a wall down and started some major demo just a little bit before our Thanksgiving get together.

After the wall was removed the remainder of the carpet had to come up. Remember the old wood floors? Those were in the old bedroom thing/ new living room too. After exposing the rest of the floor, he started on the walls. Our hopes were high and fingers crossed that we would find wood shiplap underneath. We had a few clues that there was, but you can never, ever, ever be sure that what you think you saw is actually what is there in an old house.

So far, so good. Timothy always has lots of help. Here is a close up of our 12" wide rough sawn discovery. It was better than I had hoped.

The thing with demo is that while it is very exciting and necessary, it is also very, very time consuming and labor intensive. And dirty, super dirty.

But oh so worth it! Remember the log wall we exposed in the kitchen? We exposed the other side of it so we can enjoy it from the new living room as well. 

At this point, which took a few late nights to even get to, we decided to leave the ceiling as is for the time being and button up the room for guest to start arriving in a few days. Don't get too comfortable there you old, characterless ceiling, your days are numbered.

Come back in a few days to see the trim we chose and what we are starting to do to the walls!