Rub-a-Dub!

Surprise! Look what magically arrived at our house today. When I left this morning, our upstairs bathroom was a big hole with no walls, no ceiling, and a 4x5 foot hole in the floor, through which you could see straight to the kitchen subfloor. Fast forward 10 hours, we have a bathtub installed!

I've already sat in it and drank a glass of wine and let me tell you, it's a great place to hang out.

And that's not all. Yesterday and today, the plumber and the "wrecking crew" (as I've come to call them - the two demo guys you should most definitely NOT underestimate, trust me) have made some mad progress throughout the whole house.

In our upstairs bathroom, walls are framed in and pocket door kit is installed. Subfloor is down, and let me tell you it is solid, level and as beautiful as subfloor can possibly be. A crazy huge original cast iron stack that extended the full four floors of the house (basement, 1st floor, 2nd floor and attic) and was supported only by 2 leaning and totally not secured 2x4's (YIKES!) has been removed and replaced, and the new toilet is roughed in.

On the first floor, the old closet is knocked out, and new plumbing is routed to and from the old kitchen sink as well as the newly added half bath. Half bath and closet walls are totally framed in, with pocket door kits installed.

And, Chris' personal favorite thing (and my second, after the bathtub) . . . . . . 2 beautiful, new, energy efficient Pella windows are sitting in boxes in our living room, just begging to be installed in the kitchen and full bathroom. C has been laughing at by bathtub obsession all night (granted, I sat in it, fully clothed, for a good 30 minutes whiled I called numerous family members and drank a glass of wine) but I just smile imagining the ridiculous behavior that will occur when he comes home to find new windows installed. It will be crazy. Complete mayhem, I promise you.

Anyway, long and short is, progress continues and it rocks. Hopefully another update tomorrow.