And the renovation begins

So we have big plans to redo pretty much the entire house. The navy blue carpet in the dining room and office needs to go, as well as the bright plain white tile in the kitchen. Oh, kitchen? Don't get us started. Hello PINK counter tops (ha yeah, that was fun the first time I came to West's bachelor pad and he had pink in his kitchen). We need more closet space (I'm not apologizing for having too many clothes, but I am apologizing for taking up all the room ha) and the basement needs carpet and furniture. We need kitchen chairs and new carpet in the TV room, which has furniture that's way too big for the room... you get the picture, we have some HUGE projects that require removing walls and building new ones and some face lift projects like new furniture and carpet. We thought we would start somewhere on the main floor... dining room, TV room, kitchen... but... our house had different plans.
Here's some "before" pics of our upstairs bedroom: So why exactly would this become our point of focus? Well... it's what I like to call our kitchen waterfall. Not just a trickle or a drip or even what I would classify as a leak, but an honest to goodness waterfall gushing from somewhere in the bathroom and coming out of the ceiling into our kitchen:West couldn't track down the problem. We fixed it once but apparently that wasn't it... well, if we can't be sure maybe we should rip the whole bathroom out? If we do this we really have to commit to it... and five minutes later there we were all crammed in the bathroom with hammers.

Hey how good of quality is your house when you find a hole in the wall with only the siding covering over it?

It's probably a good thing we decided to gut the whole bathroom. West kept finding various places of water damage. So even the sub flooring is coming up (water damage) and we're rearranging the whole layout of the bathroom, and replumbing the whole thing as we do. I say "we", but you know I really mean him. Of course I'm more than willing to do whatever he asks of me. So this is what we have right now: Just a shell of a bathroom. West is still working on pulling up the sub floor, which he says is going to be good because now we can lay day cement board for the tile. And we now have to remove the linen closet which originally we were going to keep, but that's where we are now seeing water damage, and it's going to need to match the new cupboards anyway so we still have a lot of demolition going on, but it's going to be amazing when it's done :). And you're probably going to have to hear a lot about it in the mean time.