The Nursery Phase #2

As the rain rolled out and the sun rolled in today, Josh and I were busy getting started on "gutting" the new nursery. It was a long but very productive day. We were able to pull up all the carpet and padding. I personally was the resident staple remover because it was light duty work. Geez there are a lot of staples in carpet padding.....who knew? We also pulled down all the crown moulding, window moulding, and baseboards. Sounds quick and easy but not so much . It requires a lot of grunt work which Josh does very well. In fact, he says there is something very therapeutic about breaking things. Josh then removed the framing for what was now the old closet. We are moving the closet to cut down on dead space in the room and installing sliding doors on the new closet to cut down on yet more wasted room. The plan tomorrow is to continue with scraping the old painted plaster off the walls and to demo the ceiling. Josh will demo the ceiling, I will be stuck doing the managing and the light duty clean up. Although, there are NINE NCAA games to choose from tomorrow, so I can't say I'm that devastated. Josh has really done an amazing job today and accomplished a lot. I have added some pics so you can get an idea of what is going on. After the old ceiling comes down tomorrow, new drywall will go up!

The wire in this picture is going up to the new office. It was inside what is now the old closet. It will have to be moved yet again once the new closet is installed. Pretty walls huh!?

This is inside the nursery looking into the dining room. It is facing what will be the new constructed closet. The brown stuff on the wall is what is under the stuff we are scraping off the walls. It is a very painful process, but will look great when we are finished.

This is looking at the window from the nursery door. It will be completely redone with new moulding. Again, more scraping on that wall as well.

And just in case we don't see the light at the end of the tunnel....this is what we are working toward. This is the first onesie we have received as a gift!!