Before photos

These aren't true "before photos" as Chris has already started demo and I've moved some things around already. I swear the house was really clean about 12 hours before I took these photos. Or maybe it was 24 hours. Oh no I've got it wrong. The cleanliness lasted about 12 hours while we were all asleep! Ha....

Chris is taking out the huge brick mantle, and removing the popcorn ceilings in the remaining parts of the house. 

And the tile is coming out... About 900 square feet of it.. That we put in ourselves (with papa and nanas help!) 6 years ago. 

With the kitchen rennovation complete 2 years ago we realized the tile just wasn't our style... But it wasn't in the cards then.  In the top left you can see the awesome line of "new" ceiling on the right and the popcorn on the left. 

Emptied hallway missing baseboards already!

And then there's the armoire. We have literally changed our home to accomodate this amazing giant piece of furniture. A score at a local thrift store it is where I moved my craft room, home office, bookshelf, and storage space when we had kiddos. This thing can seriously store stuff, and looks great doing it. It can "eat a room" so to speak so we keep it visable yet tucked away a little bit. It also weighs about 450 pounds and takes at least 4 (preferably 5!) dudes to lift/move/scoot it. Chris and Paul (papa) even moved the wall 1 inch to accomodate it into the hallway ex-closet space. And now we are moving it again!

Chris and I spent an hour last night chatting about the logistics of moving everything off of the tile to have the wood floors installed. It will be no easy feat but good thing I love change! And also good thing we don't have too big of a home to have to move things about. I feel so optimistic.