Week Three...

The dust chased me off, but Ned and crew carried on ripping out remaining horse-hair plaster and floors. The bathtub downstairs came out. And now the stairs to the upstairs are getting a facelift. The stairs are exciting because it's something new going in rather than just old being torn out. Hooray!

The old floors are out (saved for repurposing) and the bathtub is going.

Finally - something NEW! New stair treads. Can't wait to not squeak up the stairs, although it is making it easier for Henry to sneak out of the house in a few years (I hope it's not for a few years anyway).

Although we're away, we are not taking a vacation from the house. As tax free weekend was this past weekend, we bought a bathtub, two sinks, two toilets, two faucets, two shower heads, a dishwasher, and over-the-kitchen-island lights.

This is what the "chandelier" that will hang above our kitchen island will look like, although we'll have more lights and chrome wire.  

We also went to the flea market in Santa Fe to get wonderful treasures to put in the new house and then went to TJ Maxx to get the new suitcase in which to transport all the treasures back home.

Still more decisions to make - counters. I want stainless, but can I afford it? What will the other lights look like? What will the floors and shower walls be made of in the downstairs bath? What will the new windows in the kitchen look like? What type of window treatments to get? It's an exciting process, but seems like a never-ending one.